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I'm back after a 5 month Hiatus working on a masters degree. (still working on it, but I have a break for a few months before I have to go off and do that again)

I just wrote a thing all about how to date when you're a single sailor.
http://www.boogie-nights.org/2016/05/how-to-date-sailors-essential-guide.html

I'm not half as obsessed about dating as I am about sailing though. I'll hopefully be racing my boat this summer with plans to gad about between France and the UK mostly. Anyone else doing the YM Triangle Race this year?

The latest rambling is kinda related to one of my last posts on here where I was looking for a sailing buddy after my summer holiday went wrong last year

Hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it. (it was a cold and damp bank holiday)
 
I look forward to that coffee on Boogie Nights with even more trepidation that before.
Triangle entry fee just gone off (who else on the forum is entered?) but will see you before Torquay.
xx
 
PhillM said:
My only question is, what's the MA in?
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It's documentary photography and photojournalism.
I've already created a book on "Gosport Girls"
There will be another called "In Search of Nancy"
but I'm also going to be launching a pilot publication that is based on the love of maps/charts etc.
you can see part of my current ongoing research, which is a survey here: http://british-eccentricities-mapazine.blogspot.co.uk/
it's a celebration of British eccentricities and a new concept in publishing.
combining a bit of humour with daftness and all things quirky and British. A celebration if you like of the rich tapestry of this little piece of land we live on or float around.
 
Love it.

I'm doing MA sales management distance learning at UOP. Not as much fun I suspect. More library days for us!

Did I ever tell you how I sailed to uni. No. Well not surprising in here I suspect, but was unique for my course.
 
Sugar Kane said:
It's documentary photography and photojournalism.
I've already created a book on "Gosport Girls"
There will be another called "In Search of Nancy"
but I'm also going to be launching a pilot publication that is based on the love of maps/charts etc.
you can see part of my current ongoing research, which is a survey here: http://british-eccentricities-mapazine.blogspot.co.uk/
it's a celebration of British eccentricities and a new concept in publishing.
combining a bit of humour with daftness and all things quirky and British. A celebration if you like of the rich tapestry of this little piece of land we live on or float around.
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Well I like looking at inland maps - rather than nautical charts - to spot ley lines, which is quite easy when you know how; thing is, these lines definitely exist and are recorded in ancient place names, one can also easily detect them by dowsing - which 90% of the population can do.

What it all means and adds up to and how is the big question.

Most ley lines are ancient routes, and I believe some sort of static electicity built up with the passing feet - not explained by current physics but not as wacky as other aspects.

If one dowses in and around stone circles - Avebury is a prime example where they even sell dowsing rods & ' twigs ' - the rods will follow paths to the stones then point to individual ones right, left and dead ahead.

Usually in a stone circle there are easily followed dowsing paths crossing at the centre of the circle at 90 degrees.

The question is, were the stones put there to mark this phenomenon or enhance it ?

It's easy to spot ley lines on maps if you know a little, look out for alignments with places named ' Cole ' or ' Wick ' ( latter is an ancient name for way or road ) .

Disregard places with ' ley ' in the name, a common red herring.

So yes I suppose I do like maps, and nautical charts as well; I've never tried dowsing afloat but I suspect there's something to that and early navigation, at least to the Channel Islands and Brittany, maybe Viking progress too.

Edit; While true, this isn't boosting my dating chances is it....:rolleyes:
 
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Seajet said:
Well I like looking at inland maps - rather than nautical charts - to spot ley lines, which is quite easy when you know how; thing is, these lines definitely exist and are recorded in ancient place names, one can also easily detect them by dowsing - which 90% of the population can do.

What it all means and adds up to and how is the big question.

Most ley lines are ancient routes, and I believe some sort of static electicity built up with the passing feet - not explained by current physics but not as wacky as other aspects.

If one dowses in and around stone circles - Avebury is a prime example where they even sell dowsing rods & ' twigs ' - the rods will follow paths to the stones then point to individual ones right, left and dead ahead.

Usually in a stone circle there are easily followed dowsing paths crossing at the centre of the circle at 90 degrees.

The question is, were the stones put there to mark this phenomenon or enhance it ?

It's easy to spot ley lines on maps if you know a little, look out for alignments with places named ' Cole ' or ' Wick ' ( latter is an ancient name for way or road ) .

Disregard places with ' ley ' in the name, a common red herring.

So yes I suppose I do like maps, and nautical charts as well; I've never tried dowsing afloat but I suspect there's something to that and early navigation, at least to the Channel Islands and Brittany, maybe Viking progress too.

Edit; While true, this isn't boosting my dating chances is it....:rolleyes:
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Are all A 22 owners, Pagan?
 
One doesn't have to be pagan for dowsing to work, it does for 90% of people.

However if Pagan means in touch with nature and an adversity to sky fairy fables, that's me and quite a few chums ! :)

I did once know a work colleague called Kreb Dragonrider who left his job ' to become a Knight Errant for King Arthur ' - the one who protests around Stonehenge and the West Country nowadays.

As Kreb was setting off on a mountain bike rather than a white charger and seemed to need all the help he could get, I gave him a puncture repair kit, compass and a space blanket - I often wonder how he got on.
 
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Seajet said:
One doesn't have to be pagan for dowsing to work, it does for 90% of people.

However if Pagan means in touch with nature and an adversity to sky fairy fables, that's me and quite a few chums ! :)

I did once know a work colleague called Kreb Dragonrider who left his job ' to become a Knight Errant for King Arthur ' - the one who protests around Stonehenge and the West Country nowadays.

As Kreb was setting off on a mountain bike rather than a white charger and seemed to need all the help he could get, I gave him a puncture repair kit, compass and a space blanket - I often wonder how he got on.
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That'll be the Kreb cycle then?
 
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