the one thing you can never remember

[Phoenix of Hamble]

I can never remember which way the tides flow along the channel, or up and down the North sea, and always have to look it up.....

You'll all now post up a series of tips on how to remember, and i'll still need to look it up next time....

So what is the one thing that you can never remember without looking it up, or working it out?

 

[Dyflin]

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So what is the one thing that you can never remember without looking it up, or working it out?

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Who gives way, power or sail? /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[shmoo]

I find it hard to remember the whole class of things with two states (like your example). Which way to turn nuts to tighten (especially when hanging upside down in the bilge, with the screw facing away); which side of the road to drive on in Jamaica; which way to turn when the lower light of a transit is left of the higher one...

I can still recite the equations of motion and the Black–Scholes equation (though I am trying to forget that one in the light of recent events).

 

[michael_w]

Spelling "received" I always have to mutter "I before E except after C."

Plus, as a recent arrival on the East Coast, I'm finding the tides confusing too!

 

[jhr]

At which angle should I hold a mug when pouring soup out of a thermos?

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[Danny Jo]

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So what is the one thing that you can never remember without looking it up, or working it out?


[/ QUOTE ] Mine's much worse - as I drive off to the boat, I am overcome by the certain feeling that I've forgotten something, but I cannot remember what it is

Having a mental checklist - oars, rollocks, boat keys, mobile, wallet, the grocklesprocket I brought home last time to clean up/fix/paint - is only partially successful

 

[jimi]

What the meaning of life is

 

[Phoenix of Hamble]

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What the meaning of life is

[/ QUOTE ]Ah, but I can always remember the answer to that one.... just can't remember which way the tide is flowing.... /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[Danny Jo]

Oh, yes, I forgot the most important one - East vs. West

I can manage North and South, you understand, and I have no difficulty with right and left, or even which way to turn a nut, whether with my right or left hand, upside-down or round the back. But show me a route on a chart or town plan that, say, starts with a South-bound leg, then turns East, and something in me tells me to turn right at the waypoint.

 

[Twister_Ken]

"So what is the one thing that you can never remember"

I forget.

 

[FullCircle]

Lights in IRPCS.

Thats why I bought the Weems & Plath sliding thingy. Brilliant.

 

[Poignard]

Whether to pull my zip down before or after having a pee.

 

[Noddy]

My wife's name.

 

[kingfisher]

Separation buoys in IALA A (red/green or red/green/red in the Netherlands). I treid to find a nmonic trick, but nothing helps.

 

[ChrisE]

Well here's a tip, stand with your back to the beach and observe the tide when it is flowing, it is always going left or right.

Hope this helps.

 

[Twister_Ken]

"Well here's a tip, stand with your back to the beach and observe the tide when it is flowing, it is always going left or right."

That can't be right. It's always going in or out.

 

[ChrisE]

the hint was in the word 'flowing'

 

[Phoenix of Hamble]

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Well here's a tip, stand with your back to the beach and observe the tide when it is flowing, it is always going left or right.

Hope this helps.

[/ QUOTE ]That won't help..... its miles to a beach from round here..... by the time i've driven back to my boat, the tide will have changed again..... /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[ChrisE]

Ah well, tip number two.

Buy yourself a tidal prediction package you tight fisted git.

 

[Phoenix of Hamble]

but i'll still need to 'look it up'.... ah well.... i'll just put up with it, and console myself with the fact that I don't have any problems in doing up a bolt when upside down... /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif