You've never had it so good

[byron]

You\'ve never had it so good

All you guys with your GPS, Plotters et al.
When I first went boating you had to kill a whale, boil it down for oil. Then you had to buy a thin copper needle from a Persian trader, and then make a clay saucer. You put the oil in the saucer and floated the needle on top and that was your compass.

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[Guest]

Re: The winds of change

Indeed. And there was a time when to see which way the wind was coming from, we had was a stupid rotating pointy thing, and you had to look up the mast to see which way it was going. No wait a minute, that was last week on a sailboat..

 

[Col]

Re: You\'ve never had it so good

Didn't the needle get jiggled about by the motion of the oarsmen on that galleon of yours? and doesn't the Roman shields down the side affect the compass deviation?

 

[byron]

Re: You\'ve never had it so good

Oh! didn't I mention it? My boat was a Coracle òô

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[hlb]

Re: You\'ve never had it so good

So thats what you use on the Thames is it!

Haydn

 

[ToMo]

Re: You\'ve never had it so good

Thats all too high tech...we never had anything as complicated as that on the ark ! just a Dove or two !!

ToMo

 

[jfm]

Re: scratching my head..

Were they colour or B/W Byron?

 

[ccscott49]

Re: You\'ve never had it so good

When I started Pontius was a bristol channel pilot! and we didnt need names for our boats, we knew each other.

 

[bryantee]

Re: You\'ve never had it so good

a fellow named jason has just opened a chandlery here called the golden fleece!

 

[ccscott49]

Re: You\'ve never had it so good

Tee Hee!