The Boating Life 'Confessions' MBM this Month!

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Fair play to the Contributer
For 'contributing'!
Peeps , if you read the Article it is quite frightening really
In case yer aint read it or whatever


'I left Newhaven in early April with My new boat
With a Proffesional Skipper on board
Bound for Ramsgate Marina
We encountered thick Fog
Relying completley on our GPS
The GPS lost its signal
Without enlarging
They got lost
Heading the wrong way
The Contributer said the GPS then came 'alive' again
So they got Home
'-----' No Name boat,s inaugural cruise had been a successfull one, all I had to do now was invest in a good old -fashioned compass'!'

Feck me!
No Compass and it seems no Charts and stuff and no real passage plane:eek:
With a 'Proffesional Skipper' on board
So the Text says!
Swat it says on page 120 of this months MBM
Which won the Authour a VHF!!
No probs with that
We all feck up from time to time etc and we need to read about it
Fair play ter yer Man for telling us
BUT
'With a Proffesional Skipper on board' was the Quote:eek:

Some 'Pro' He was:rolleyes:
 
Kawasaki said:
Fair play to the Contributer
For 'contributing'!
Peeps , if you read the Article it is quite frightening really
In case yer aint read it or whatever


'I left Newhaven in early April with My new boat
With a Proffesional Skipper on board
Bound for Ramsgate Marina
We encountered thick Fog
Relying completley on our GPS
The GPS lost its signal
Without enlarging
They got lost
Heading the wrong way
The Contributer said the GPS then came 'alive' again
So they got Home
'-----' No Name boat,s inaugural cruise had been a successfull one, all I had to do now was invest in a good old -fashioned compass'!'

Feck me!
No Compass and it seems no Charts and stuff and no real passage plane:eek:
With a 'Proffesional Skipper' on board
So the Text says!
Swat it says on page 120 of this months MBM
Which won the Authour a VHF!!
No probs with that
We all feck up from time to time etc and we need to read about it
Fair play ter yer Man for telling us
BUT
'With a Proffesional Skipper on board' was the Quote:eek:

Some 'Pro' He was:rolleyes:
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When I got lost once, I asked a profesional trawler man, to show me the way home. No sweat we hit Duglass spot on. Always trust a profesional.:)
 
Kawasaki said:
Some 'Pro' He was:rolleyes:
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When helping mates move boats around I always take a hand held with pre laid course already input, I keep it safely tucked away but it usually comes out !

I m not a professional , I find it difficult to believe a true pro wouldnt take his own nav gear as it would take too long to pre plot a course on equipment you werent familiar with........
do you think professional skipper should really read " gobby know it all from the club bar" or "RYA Instructor"
 
Heading out of L'Aberwrac'h in thick fog using Decca and an unfamiliar Stanfords chart we lost confidence and clung to a handy fisherman's buoy.

A local boat emerged through the fog and asked if he could tie up. In my best French I remarked that I felt stupid there. He said not to worry, he often did it.
 
Okay, I'm sitting comfortably, you can start now ;)[/QUOTE]

As yer know I,m all 'teched up' now
Wiv me 'stand alone' plotter an compass on me i phone;)
An I got an 'Instructer hat' somewhere;)
 
Does "Professional" simply mean that he accepted money for it? But yes, even if relying on GPS, I still have the paper chart out (it's a good overview) and it's a simply matter to put a cross on it if the GPS went down. It won't be exact, but it will be near enough for Jazz & will get you home.

Just watching "Riddle of the Sands" on Channel 4 & the Dulcibela has just been rammed - what a waste of a beautiful old Yawl!
 
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