Who remembers.......

[Hadenough]

I do!

 

[Serin]

Black stb. hand buoys; green wreck buoys; windward stands on irrespective of tack.....

How about sailing in the North Sea when there were still NEMEDRI charts marking the swept channels?

And (until a little more recently) waiting in the queue for a link call and listening to all the lonely sailors talking to their wives and girlfriends - and making convoluted arrangements to keep them apart......

Or even sailing without any kind of R/T (and hitching a lift ashore with the customs launch in order to find out my A level results after a summer's sailing in the west of Ireland)

Happy days!

 

[Concerto]

I certainly remember the old black starboard buoys and green wreck buoys back in the mid 1960's when I started sailing in my childhood.

 

[alant]

.......... when Starboard marks were black and wreck buoys were green?

:ambivalence:

(before 1977)

Do submarines have windows, to allow buoys to be seen then?

 

[capnsensible]

Do submarines have windows, to allow buoys to be seen then?

Nah, Submarine Captains are Wizards.

How about link calls via Niton Radio, oilskins, RDF, pile moorings in Haslar Creek, Sumderlands at Calshot Spit and the Isle of Wight ferry with paddles??

 

[Seajet]

Yup,

I remember the last Sunderland trundling around before take off for Kermit Week's museum in the USA.

And the Medway Queen & Ryde nightclubs at the Folly ( I seem to remember the area stank of sewage at low water ) with the ' dance ' floors levelling as the tide came in; also the very handy campsite shop just there.

Also the bar on a barge at East Cowes marina when they had a cove for visitors, good slipway & camping / dog walking area ( not all that long ago compared to green wreck buoys ).

The hulk of the Mercury in the Hamble then Portsmouth before she went to Chatham for a restoration I for one would never have imagined, back to HMS Eagle ( I think, haven't been yet ).

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[Grumpybear]

There still is a green wreck buoy in Plymouth Sound, above the remains of the FYLRIX.

 

[pagoda]

Nah, Submarine Captains are Wizards.

How about link calls via Niton Radio, oilskins, RDF, pile moorings in Haslar Creek, Sumderlands at Calshot Spit and the Isle of Wight ferry with paddles??

EEK... I remember doing link calls - waiting past the "hour" on 2182. Trying to remind other party that it was NOT a private line! Ditto rolling about on the floor giggling with the RO when girlfriends / wives got personal on other calls while I waited! I also remember telex paper rolls...

 

[johnalison]

Queueing up outside the telephone box in Calais to tell anxious parents that one hadn't got lost in the Atlantic.
Racing around ships laid up in the Blackwater
Waiting for port entry signals
Drying cotton sails in the sail shed
Hand-starting a diesel
Rope-soled canvas shoes
Winches without self-tailers (though I believe there are still some around in museums).

 

[LadyInBed]

.......... when Starboard marks were black and wreck buoys were green?

:ambivalence:


(before 1977)

I've still got B&W charts in fathoms and feet!

 

[johnalison]

I've still got B&W charts in fathoms and feet!

yes, but do you still use them for navigation like me, as in #18?

 

[BabySharkDooDooDooDooDoo]

yes, but do you still use them for navigation like me, as in #18?

My sailing club has place mats with charts from the 19 century printed on them, I have been long tempted to take one of these and place it on the chart table should I ever need rescuing by the RNLI....

 

[johnalison]

I believe that William Dampier's (d 1715) sailing directions were still part of the admiralty instructions until the 1920s or more.

 

[LadyInBed]

yes, but do you still use them for navigation like me, as in #18?

No, all electronic these days.

 

[Uricanejack]

I don't know if they are still in use but
back in the 80's many of the charts for N Australia. were from surveys by Capt Flinders.

 

[capnsensible]

Queueing up outside the telephone box in Calais to tell anxious parents that one hadn't got lost in the Atlantic.
Racing around ships laid up in the Blackwater
Waiting for port entry signals
Drying cotton sails in the sail shed
Hand-starting a diesel
Rope-soled canvas shoes
Winches without self-tailers (though I believe there are still some around in museums).

The winches on my live onnit boat are not self tailing.......

 

[BabySharkDooDooDooDooDoo]

Queueing up outside the telephone box in Calais to tell anxious parents that one hadn't got lost in the Atlantic.
Racing around ships laid up in the Blackwater
Waiting for port entry signals
Drying cotton sails in the sail shed
Hand-starting a diesel
Rope-soled canvas shoes
Winches without self-tailers (though I believe there are still some around in museums).

No, Yes, Yes, No, Sort of (using the decompression lever while using the starter motor), No, Yes

 

[Scotty_Tradewind]

I remember queuing up for ration books with my gran, does that count?

S

 

[Seajet]

I remember queuing up for ration books with my gran, does that count?

S

No, that's still standard outside Waitrose.

 

[alant]

I remember queuing up for ration books with my gran, does that count?

S

I remember using ration books.