Wristwatch navigation

SOG delusion

ooh .. all bitter and twisted are we? Why do'nt you do what everyone else does .. turn up the log and turn the windspeed, then you can bullshit with the best .. eg 8knots through the water in 9 knots of true wind!
 
Re: Why not try...

One of these? Much better!


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Re: Why not try...

That's a Hunter .. absolutely no use to a serious blue water sailor, the twirly bit at the side'll fall off!
 
Dear oh dear Jemmie, ye canna quite get the point o'this can ye?
Lets start at the beginning.....
We all know that the art of true navigation is knowing where you aren't. In fact no one ever hit anything by being unsure of where they were at the time. They were sure of where they were and were entirely wrong.
The assumption that NYC stands for Newhaven Yacht Club is rubbish. It really stands for Not Yet Current. Looking at the example given we can see that it is 10 past 10 therefore it is easy to see that the time of 12.09 is not yet current and the 35 says it is not the 35th of December. Also studying the 24 hour dial shows that it is not 2 o'clock in the morning either. This information, when fed into the appropriate declination tables for Aldebaran and adjusted for 10 past 10 on Tuesday will tel you precisely where you are not and take all the guesswork out of the calculation entirely. Don't you see........??????
 
Aha! The 'Blue Bezel'...... That's for setting local horological variation - viz. 'The Equation of Time' in Bowditch - so that your timepiece reads True at your temporal longitude. You rotate the blue outer bezel by the appropriate number of minutes and in the correct 'sense', as a calculated or 'lookup table' function of TLong, moonphase, and synchronicity.

There's an appropriate Hydrographic Office chartlet of isochrones available through your favourite Admiralty Chart Agent - try Nancy Black in Oban.

In previous centuries, harbourmasters at major ports around the UK, and elsewhere in The Empire, would provide a visual calibration facility by hoisting two black balls and, exactly at True Local Noon, drop them. The tradition emerged that RN officers would then repair to the wardroom for a G&T, while MN and fishery types would slope off to the pub for a pint......

Perhaps you could persuade your local harbourmaster to reinstate this helpful tradition?
 
I totally agree Bilbo but could you please expand on why we should try Nancy Black in Oban please.... Seems a long way to go for a short moment of pleasure..?
 
Re: SOG delusion - .. all bitter and twisted are we?

"ooh .. all bitter and twisted are we? "
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Not in the slightest - You have to understand I am still at bullshit school, and although I am working on it, as you say, perhaps I need a few more lessons! /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif Beats working though!
 
Look mate, I have eaten curried snake and noodles in a Korean restaurant and know all about the way their bowels work over there so don't give me any more of this "Oi" nonsense......alright?
 
Now ye'are just being silly Jemmie. Will ye no be serious for a moment. I have very sad memories of the event in question. Curried snake will never be quite the same for me ever again.... A moments silence please while I reflect....
 
Dear Michael,

Even though I don't believe that we have actually met face to face, I feel that I know you quite well through the miracle of the internet and the ybw.com forum in particular.

So to you and all other forumites, including catamaran and stinkie owners, I would like to send you my Best Wishes for the Yuletide season and hope that you have a Happy and Healthy 2006.

Kind Regards
Miserable Welp
 
Well that's a bit better then. Seeing as it's the season of goodwill to all and all that humbug, and I am supposed to be cheerful, may I wish you and everyone else in this strange and wonderful place the very best of seasons greetings too....
Hurumphhhhh..........
 
"Ok, if all I need is the hour hand and the number 12, what the revolving dial for?"

I've never been sure, but I play with my rotating bezel. Maybe it's the horological equivalent of worry beads?

I also use it to see how long I wait for a tube train. If it's more than 15 minutes I claim back my fare.

I make enough in the course of a year to pay for a half decent watch with one of those rotating doobreywotsits.
 
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