Tech

[ash2020]

Just wait until the poles swap, that should surprise a few people.

I'll just turn left out of the harbour, instead of right!

 

[Roberto]

I'm confused, are you telling us that electronics can be affected by lightning, or that any navigation can be affected by lightning? If your compass no longer works, that's not electronics at fault and if anything suggests that a handheld plotter in the oven would be a good solution in your example.

Paper can be wiped out by water, much more common on boats than lightning.

Just wanted to add another possible cause of sudden electronics failure which had not been mentioned, perhaps more relevant than the risk of gps being blanked while sailing along the Iran coastline.
As to paper and/or electronics, each to his own, a bit like anchors really

 

[KompetentKrew]

Gosh , you’re right!
It’s a friggin no-bot
It did another post on classics which was even weirder

We recently had to ban a couple of bots from a forum I moderate. They looked like they were run by the same person and another member of the team suggested that the content looked like it was produced by the chatGPT program - most comments looked odd but ok; one post was an essay of a few paragraphs about one of the forum's subjects, superficially quite plausible, and it was only after the bot had given itself away with something else that I noticed that it had explained the properties of two common terms the wrong way around.

This thread was bait from the start - you all knew that and replied to it anyway! Most people on this forum have been sailing for decades and I'm sure there's no question of anyone's seamanship. If everyone had the same ability towards conciliatory discussion and ignoring points of contention then this forum would be far more pleasant to sail.

 

[lustyd]

Just wanted to add another possible cause of sudden electronics failure which had not been mentioned, perhaps more relevant than the risk of gps being blanked while sailing along the Iran coastline.
As to paper and/or electronics, each to his own, a bit like anchors really

My point was that your example was a compass failure, entirely unrelated to electronics.

 

[Blueboatman]

We recently had to ban a couple of bots from a forum I moderate. They looked like they were run by the same person and another member of the team suggested that the content looked like it was produced by the chatGPT program - lots of comments looked odd but ok; one post was an essay of a few paragraphs about one of the forum's subjects, superficially quite plausible, and it was only after the bot had given itself away with something else that I noticed that it had explained the properties of two common terms the wrong way around.

This thread was bait from the start - you all knew that and replied to it anyway! Most people on this forum have been sailing for decades and I'm sure there's no question of anyone's seamanship. If everyone had the same ability towards conciliatory discussion and ignoring points of contention then this forum would be far more pleasant to sail.

Tbh I did fall for it at first except for the cadence of the phrasing !

I can’t wait for April first in Bot-land …

 

[Roberto]

My point was that your example was a compass failure, entirely unrelated to electronics.

The compass was an added bonus after all the electric/electronics were grilled.

 

[TwoFish]

another member of the team suggested that the content looked like it was produced by the chatGPT program - most comments looked odd but ok; . . . . . . . superficially quite plausible,

The Spanish fishing boat compass fluid thread would seem to match that description.

Interestingly, a couple of tongue-in-cheek snarky replies aimed at the (very polite) probably-a-bot appear to have been expunged from that thread.

 

[KompetentKrew]

Tbh I did fall for it at first except for the cadence of the phrasing !

I can’t wait for April first in Bot-land …

This topic was such a bait-y one though.

Even written clearly, without any mistakes of grammar or syntax, any question of modern navigation technology vs paper and charts is trolling for replies of "young 'uns have no idea what they're doing" vs "old fogies trying to impose their outdated ways of doing things".

This is what I intended when I posted the "this is bait" gif as soon as I saw the thread. I didn't even notice that the question might've been asked by a bot.

We're all sensible people and I'm sure we'd have no problem with each others' ways of doing things were we to sail together, but forum "debates" amplify misunderstandings.

I firmly believe that life is better if one learns to recognise and avoid social media discussions which cannot be resolved constructively.