Oh dear, oh dear, it never occurred to me that anyone would take my post seriously, didn't you realise I was 'avin a larf?
I know perfectly well what they are for; and I do use them.
Hmmm. As a once-upon-a-time pro nav trained in Reversionary Nav techniques ( i.e. when you can't find your dividers 'cos someone has 'borrowed' them to open the condensed milk ) my fingers-span works 'close enough for government work'....
What a brilliant idea. We chucked the hook out in a peaceful empty bay near Corfu one afternoon and went ashore for food and beers, much later we came back in the pitch black night only to find the once peaceful bay full of yachts, it took us an age to row around looking for our boat.
In the days before electronic navigation, a woman passenger on a liner went up to the bridge one day and asked the 2nd Officer, who was on watch, where they were.
Yep, on the transom, the reflective tape might be hidden by another anchored boat. Near the top of the mast being hidden is much less likely.
For someone like me who is illiterate, predictive text and autocorrect have allowed me to sound like a human being and operate in society on an equal basis…but when they go wrong they are even worse than memmmmmm mind boggles at what you could recycle !!
For someone like me who is illiterate, predictive text and autocorrect have allowed me to sound like a human being and operate in society on an equal basis…but when they go wrong they are even worse than me
They seriously are manna from heaven for people like me who cannot spell…and predictive text makes me think I can write in French…it’s only when I have a piece of paper in hand that the true extent of my ignorance is exposed.
I thought it was what Lowry used to set out matchstick men when starting to do a paintingOh dear, oh dear, it never occurred to me that anyone would take my post seriously, didn't you realise I was 'avin a larf?
I know perfectly well what they are for; and I do use them.
Yes but where do you keep your pet squirrel & all his nuts?
At one time I used them every day, back in the 80s! Very useful for getting coordinates off a map, or subdividing grid squares for measurement purposes. One exercise we did was to estimate the burden of ice cover in a mountainous area of Antarctica. The graticule on the map was quite coarse - 10 point dividers made it easy to subdivide the large graticule. Of course, you could subdivide into any number of divisions less than 10.
