On the subject of clocks and watches....

[capnsensible]

 

[veshengro]

The long blink seems familiar..

 

[Iliade]

Don't you just hate it when you have to lay a course with a potential inadvertent landfall only a few hours away... Why oh why don't autopilot manufacturers let us program anti-landfall turns at turn points instead of merely sounding whispering dog whistles when it wants you to confirm the change in course!

 

[capnsensible]

And as you settle down for all night in at your destination....

 

[starfire]

So, so true ...

 

[oldmanofthehills]

Navigator v susceptible the banging halliards etc. I used to be me in dampening jim jams wandering ther deck but after near 20 years marriage I just pull duvet over head and let her sort it. Of course I still lie awake waiting for a splash in case she falls in the briney

 

[Stemar]

I just pull duvet over head and let her sort it.

There speaks a braver (more foolish?) man than I.

 

[Buck Turgidson]

On a dark night somewhere sandy flying the Nimrod we took avoiding action for what the nav looking at the FLIR thought was a balloon.
The last item on your clock is spot on!

 

[Sandy]

My wife complained that it was dark this morning. I pointed out that it was 0445 UTC and the sun had not risen.

To quote the late, great Douglas Adams, "Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so."

I do love Western European Time (WET) and Western European Summer Time (WEST)

 

[Buck Turgidson]

My wife complained that it was dark this morning. I pointed out that it was 0445 UTC and the sun had not risen.

To quote the late, great Douglas Adams, "Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so."

I do love Western European Time (WET) and Western European Summer Time (WEST)

Some habits are hard to break so my yacht always runs on Zulu time

 

[srm]

Heading back to Shetland from Norway. Wife on helm, me in bunk. Woken by anxious shout, "There's a bright light coming behind us". I stand in main hatch looking astern, "Its the moon rising".

 

[oldmanofthehills]

Heading back to Shetland from Norway. Wife on helm, me in bunk. Woken by anxious shout, "There's a bright light coming behind us". I stand in main hatch looking astern, "Its the moon rising".

Better she got a second opinion on a possible hazard and discovered there was no hazard, than assumed it would be ok when it was not.

 

[rogerthebodger]

Some habits are hard to break so my yacht always runs on Zulu time

I know what you ae talking about and my boat is in Zululand or African Time

African time is the perceived cultural tendency in parts of Africa and the Caribbean toward a more relaxed attitude to time. This is sometimes used in a pejorative sense, about tardiness in appointments, meetings and events.

 

[starfire]

I know what you ae talking about and my boat is in Zululand or African Time

African time is the perceived cultural tendency in parts of Africa and the Caribbean toward a more relaxed attitude to time. This is sometimes used in a pejorative sense, about tardiness in appointments, meetings and events.

Bit like a mate from Cornwall, while in Spain, having explained to him the Spanish concept of Mañana, he said, in Cornwall we don't have anything that urgent.