Simple Simon wrote:

This is a talent NEVER developed by those who
sit isolated in a pilot house on the bridge.


Nil, what are you doing in a thread labeled "Professional Courtesy and
Respect?"

As your last post clearly shows, you are not a professional, you exhibit
no signs of courtesy, and you certainly have not earned the respect of
any professional mariner.

You are an occasionally amusing irritant to those who seek nautical
information in this forum, otherwise you are nothing but a partially
skilled amateur, nibbling, like a parrotfish, at the reef of skills and
knowledge you will never digest.

Rick