YM theory

[Renegade_Master]

doin my YM theory next week, for those who have done it what was the most difficult bit for you

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[powerskipper]

getting cart work accurate.

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Julie

 

[Renegade_Master]

you really must slow down your fingers Jules

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[Vara]

Getting rid of my "but I have always done it like this" attitude.
Apparently calibrating the side of a fag packet and using it with a ruler to work courses is not recognised as good practise!

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[jimi]

I found the weather stuff the most difficult, the rest I found straightforward but I'm relatively good with figures etc

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[jfm]

remebering the lights for a fishing trawler over 50m LOA underway not under command towing with a >100m towline and trawling at the same time with some dredging stuff hung over the portside and with engines astern. Who cares. If it's got lights and you can see its orientation (from the red green white) you're gonna avoid it anyways. And you probly radar-ed it and marpa-ed it 30minutes previuosly anyway

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[whisper]

Weather - still can't fathom it out sometimes.

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[ccscott49]

Why not? works for me!


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[ccscott49]

As long as you know where you are and where the Hard bits are! Simple! tee hee

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[Ifraser]

Secondary port calculations seem to fox a lot of people, me included!!

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[kghowe]

Glad I'm not the only one! In the middle of it now.

KGH

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[steverow]

Doing mine now.
We've done the met, which was relatively straightforward, and the exam which I passed.
We're now on colregs, which I am less confident of, as there's an awful lot to take in in three evenings....lots and lots of home study...parrot fashion learning methinks.
Have to get eighty percent to pass this.
All those lights and shapes, a lot of which you'll probably never ever come across...even if fishing vessels did display the correct lights or didn't just hoist a tilted lobster basket in lieu of two cones.
Anyone got any quick learning software or methods??


Steve.

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[powerskipper]

this program is good.
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Julie<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1>Edited by powerskipper on 06/11/2004 13:13 (server time).</FONT></P>

 

[tcm]

writing the cheque for the practical heehee

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[Davy_S]

The weather! seems you could guess just as well. Also the when will you float tidal thingy.

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[ShipsWoofy]

Isn't that more day skipper?

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[ShipsWoofy]

Weather is a weird one I think.

I have read a lot about this subject. When reading I nod in agreement, accept the airs moving towards to equators from the poles and then starting to circulate and move as cyclones etc.

Then there is airs of the land, clouds all explained with lovely photographs and diagrams. Give it about a week after reading and understanding, and .....nothing, I have forgotten which way the airs move around a high, what different clouds mean, cold and warm fronts (which type of air is hitting what).

I now make notes, which I use with charts, I hope that eventually my notes will just become coasters by the laptop, but for now.....

I also thank the genes in my family I guess. I can usually get a feel for the next 24hrs weather (local) by sitting out with a coffee in the morning. Don't know how I do it, but am more often right than wrong. I do not question it, it might go away /forums/images/icons/frown.gif. I would never offer this to another sailor and often I am talked out of it by the Met office when I could have gone out but they seemed more confident than the voices in my head!

Going back on my meds now, toodle pip!

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[powerskipper]

secondary ports are gone into in greater depth in the yachtmaster course, with lots of lovely graphs and things.

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[Renegade_Master]

One can remember Pilot boat cos its white over red ......whites his hat reds his nose from too much scotch :~)

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[pheran]

Isn't <font color=blue>Scotch</font color=blue> and <font color=blue>too much</font color=blue> a non-sequitur?

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