"MC" wrote in message
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Donal wrote:
"MC" wrote in message
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Donal wrote:



I've also forgotton what most lights mean. If they have
anything unusual, then I give way.


Even to channel markers?




No, I know those! I was talking about the lights shown by various
types
of vessel.


Like a test?

I knew them when I took the test, or *most* of them. I confess to spending
a few hours, shortly after the test, on a night passage wondering what a
slow moving flashing yellow might be. It stayed on a constant bearing for
several hours, and confused the hell out of us. Interestingly, all of us
had done the Yachtmaster together - only a year earlier!


It seems to me that we remember the things that we actually use. I've
completely forgotten most of the Morse code, apart from S and O, and U. U
is important to me because somebody used their foghorn to warn us that we
were going to hit rocks about ten years ago. One of the crew, thankfully,
recognised the signal. Dit dit dah is "U", which means that you are
running into danger.


Regards


Donal
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