simonfraser
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i mean you shoud be writing for jasper carrot / dawn french etc !
Unrolling charts
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john_morris_uk
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I know I was a bit tongue in cheek, but the sad thing is that all of things I wrote were also true. Nothing like the truth to provide the background for the humour and I happened to be in the right place to ask..
Ask Adrian up at Taunton who is the archivist for the UKHO.... or the CO of.... I think that they thought I was doing a 'letters of what's his name who wrote complaining or sycophantic letters to important people and organisations as a wind up', but the CO was in the next room to my office and it was too tempting
Actually I am going to see the archives in a couple of weeks. I have been told that the things to ask for are the original Cook surveys - you can spend hours and hours reading through the journals and looking at the drawings and surveys that he made. All meticulous and in great detail in his own hand. They've got them all in the archive along with every edition of every chart ever published by UKHO! I can't wait, but perhaps I'm just sad...
Ask Adrian up at Taunton who is the archivist for the UKHO.... or the CO of.... I think that they thought I was doing a 'letters of what's his name who wrote complaining or sycophantic letters to important people and organisations as a wind up', but the CO was in the next room to my office and it was too tempting
Actually I am going to see the archives in a couple of weeks. I have been told that the things to ask for are the original Cook surveys - you can spend hours and hours reading through the journals and looking at the drawings and surveys that he made. All meticulous and in great detail in his own hand. They've got them all in the archive along with every edition of every chart ever published by UKHO! I can't wait, but perhaps I'm just sad...
Ships_Cat
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Perhaps you could check while at Taunton to see if any of Cook's documents need ironing /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif.
You are definitely not sad - would love to see those things myself. I have mentioned this in another post but it was only 20 years ago that the actual location of one of Abel Tasman's coastal views (drawn by Isaac Gilsemans in 1642) known to be done from one of their anchorages somewhere here in New Zealand was identified. It was located by a yachtsman who set out to find it and when he had done so he, of course knew the error in Tasman's journaled position of the anchorage. He was then able to correct all Tasman's journaled (but, of course, inaccurate) positions and determine his actual track while in NZ waters.
We know the location well and it is blindingly obvious once one makes the connection, but no one ever had. That work and much more about Tasman's explorations recently ended up in an intriguing book The Merchant of the Zeehaen, Issac Gilsemans and the Voyages of Abel Tasman.
So, if you want to be really sad /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif perhaps ask the archivist for some unidentified coastal views and set out to find them.
My goodness I am sad too, being interested in that stuff /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif
John
You are definitely not sad - would love to see those things myself. I have mentioned this in another post but it was only 20 years ago that the actual location of one of Abel Tasman's coastal views (drawn by Isaac Gilsemans in 1642) known to be done from one of their anchorages somewhere here in New Zealand was identified. It was located by a yachtsman who set out to find it and when he had done so he, of course knew the error in Tasman's journaled position of the anchorage. He was then able to correct all Tasman's journaled (but, of course, inaccurate) positions and determine his actual track while in NZ waters.
We know the location well and it is blindingly obvious once one makes the connection, but no one ever had. That work and much more about Tasman's explorations recently ended up in an intriguing book The Merchant of the Zeehaen, Issac Gilsemans and the Voyages of Abel Tasman.
So, if you want to be really sad /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif perhaps ask the archivist for some unidentified coastal views and set out to find them.
My goodness I am sad too, being interested in that stuff /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif
John
CharlesM
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Re: Unrolling charts: training required
I am sure there must be a 3 day RYA course at only £295.95 for this somewhere...
I am sure there must be a 3 day RYA course at only £295.95 for this somewhere...
ArthurWood
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Re: Unrolling charts: training required
LOL
LOL
Rivers & creeks
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Re: Unrolling charts: training required
In response I think tcm should launch an internet based email correspondence course - perhaps initially limiting it to unfolding sheets of A4 paper and costing £199.95. It could easily be franchised via Yacht Clubs. There's definitely a market.
In response I think tcm should launch an internet based email correspondence course - perhaps initially limiting it to unfolding sheets of A4 paper and costing £199.95. It could easily be franchised via Yacht Clubs. There's definitely a market.
