Wot! No GPS....?

[zoidberg]

 

[sarabande]

Interesting focal length of the 'scope


PS I do like your haircut .....

 

[Wansworth]

How many dreamt of sailing the seas after reading his books?

 

[Bajansailor]

Is this Bernard Moitessier on Joshua in 'The Long Way'?

I read a couple of his books, and that helped to inspire me to sail across an ocean.

 

[johnalison]

The lack of any obvious harness makes me feel uncomfortable in itself.

 

[cherod]

The lack of any obvious harness makes me feel uncomfortable in itself.

I dont think you need worry too much with that bloke , aparently he knew very well what he was doing ?

 

[capnsensible]

Been there, done that, drank the rum. ?

 

[zoidberg]

How many dreamt of sailing the seas after reading his books?

I dreamt of lying on a Tahiti beach, with a brace of fetching Tahiti maidens tending my bruises and.... well, 'fetching'.

 

[Wansworth]

Tahiti s probably much like Hounslow now,except sunnier?

 

[mjcoon]

Sometimes a B&W photo gives a better impression...

 

[westhinder]

I dont think you need worry too much with that bloke , aparently he knew very well what he was doing ?

So did Eric Tabarly, alas

 

[capnsensible]

Tahiti s probably much like Hounslow now,except sunnier?

Tahiti is actually a pleasant tropical looking island. From a distance. Feels good when you raise it on the horizon. Yay.

The marina is kinda ok and not busy. It's a very crumbly French colonial ashore. Lots of typically tropical wooden shacks by storm drains. I would not call it cheerful.

The dusky maidens clearly discovered pizza a few generations ago and tend towards um, statuesque.

However it's an ideal place to secure a pair of black pearl earrings to wow your honey on returning home. ?

I enjoyed it.

 

[cherod]

So did Eric Tabarly, alas

bit of a difference tho between Joshua and a folk boat ,, still sad ending to another denizen of our sport .

 

[capnsensible]

Oh and for Astro, Orion stands on his head and some other stars that you may have heard of are seen a bit easier to see in a less cluttered Sky. When it's not honking with rain. ?

 

[GHA]

Didn't Moitessier say in one of his books how one day in the future things would be much better cos we would have a box which would speak to the satellites and tell us exactly where we are .
Literary dreamer but pragmatic sailor

 

[westhinder]

bit of a difference tho between Joshua and a folk boat ,, still sad ending to another denizen of our sport .

Eric Tabarly was lost overboard from Pen Duick I, hardly a folkboat

 

[cherod]

Eric Tabarly was lost overboard from Pen Duick I, hardly a folkboat

i heard it was his iwn oersonal folk boat

 

[westhinder]

i heard it was his iwn oersonal folk boat

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[cherod]

Pen duick it was ,, re the saftey line he is quoted as saying “ he knew he was taking a risk but preferefd to live free on his boat “ And refused to have s radio on board

 

[Neeves]

Assuming you are not swept overboard but are still crossing an ocean - the question then arises (sticking to the theme of the thread) - what do you do were GPS to go down. Maybe its something simple - your electrics fail, the chart plotter fails, some malicious noggin squirrels into the GPS system (and this latter will have many more implications than Covid 19 or squabbles over the South China Sea). How many who cross oceans still have HF and don't need to rely on satellites (sat phone).

How many carry a sextant, the requisite tables and know how to use them? How many have a log, speed/distance, that is independent of the main electrics - I'm assuming everyone has a magnetic compass. Does everyone carry paper charts. Does everyone assiduously keep hard copy of lat and long, seawater temperature and plot on those same paper charts? How many have a barometer.

Just wondering how far complacency has sunk in.

Jonathan