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Capt. JG wrote:
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Capt. JG wrote:
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Vic Smith wrote:
On Sat, 07 Feb 2009 11:46:14 -0600, cavelamb
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alt.usenet.kooks.

The vandals of the internet!

So, no, this newsgroup is probably not viable any more.
Nope. The kooks are easy to delete. Easy to recognize the names and
threads. If folks want to post cruising related posts, they can.
This is the first post I've opened in a while, not because of kooks,
but because nobody is posting about cruising.
And I recognized your name as a legit poster of course.
Kooks won't post anything cruising related.
Same with the flonkers. Easy to recognize and ignore.

--Vic
Fair 'nuff, Vic.

Heck, I'll even try to start!

D and I signed up for a local ASA Navigation class.
Come May I'm heading down to the Gulf for the Coastal Cruising class.

Some day soon, we are still hoping to hear the invitation to
"come get the boat"!!!

Richard

That's a good class... took it years ago.


I've flown all my life and expected it to be a no-brainer.
I signed up just to keep D company while she went through it.

It turns out that navigation, at it's core, is navigation.
But God is in the details.
And there are a lot of details that are quite different.

I'm glad I signed up for it.

Richard


Interesting... not a pilot, so I wouldn't know the diffs... can you give
me some examples?


Chart symbology, for starters...
Nothing the same there except Lat/Long.

Then...
Running the light ranges at night.
No bell and light bouys in the sky!

Flying into a new town at night, there are lights everywhere, but it's
usually pretty easy to pick out the airport and runway lights.

Trying to pick your way down a long complicated channel at night by
lights alone - with all the background lights at the same altitude?
Pretty high pucker factor if you don't know the area.
Will take a bit of getting used to at the very least.

On the plus side, things happen in slow motion at sea.
Plenty of time to work the problems before you get to the next point.

And I'm not worried about running out of gas real soon!

It's the same thing, but totally different.




Ahh... I guess it was a dumb question... I was thinking there was some
esoteric calculation factor.. reminds me of coming down the Sausalito
channel at night a few years ago. I knew it pretty well even then, and I'm
following the channel lights... red to red to red, except then one of the
red ones turned green... oops. It were a traffic light. Time to stop. :-}

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