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Re:Well Done

Just a small point about your examiner's Q2. Nobody, in any situation, has the "right of way" according to the Rules. Indeed, the phrase does not appear anywhere in the Rules. Instead one vessel which is required to give way to another grants it a right of way. The examiner should have known this and phrased his question differently unless he was seeking an answer similar to what I have just wrote, as Ernie Wise might have said.

A WIG is a Wing-in-Ground craft which is a multimodal craft which in its operational mode flies in close proximity to the surface by utilising surface-effect acton

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Re: pedant - true

I have always understood that the time is either almost 1315, or exactly 1315. Exactly is a very precise word, and should not be qualified. Bit like saying a girl is slightly pregnant.
"Almost exactly" is an oxymoron - I think

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Re:Well Done

I'm told that deck officers in the Royal Navy are tested every two months, and have to achieve 98%. Does anyone know if that's true?

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Re:Well Done

Dunno about the RN, but when I used to help MN cadets before they took 2nd Mates they had to achieve 95% including having to know where each and every punctuation mark was!

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Congrats, only got 98% in mine last week, haven't been sailing since early Nov.
Think I'm going into withdrawal.

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Re:Well Done

2) is a trick question - Colregs never gives any boat right of way over another.

If it weren't a trick question, any vessel approaching on your quarter is overtaking vessel and so is give way vessel - irrespective of NUC, CD or whatever

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Re:Well Done

International code of signals for "I am about to collide with you at high speed"

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Re:Well Done

The serious answer is that RAM = Restricted Ability to Maneouvre showing ball diamond ball or red white read.

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Re: pedant - true

This all proves why pedantic people often get hung up on a minor point of detail, and miss the main point entirely.

My original use of 'almost exactly' was followed by 'similar' which makes it even more oxymoronic.

Anyway, we were only talking about a simple fish, and this is only a casual clubhouse bar conversation.

Almost exactly similar is perfectly good grammar, IMVHO !!

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