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Professional Courtesy and Respect?
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 |
Professional Courtesy and Respect?
"Rick" wrote in message ink.net... 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?" Pay attention, Rick! I STARTED the thread! S.Simon |
Professional Courtesy and Respect?
Simple Simon wrote:
Pay attention, Rick! I STARTED the thread! I know. That only makes it more absurd. Rick |
Professional Courtesy and Respect?
Absurd, Neal... it fits.
"Rick" wrote in message ink.net... Simple Simon wrote: Pay attention, Rick! I STARTED the thread! I know. That only makes it more absurd. Rick |
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From: "Simple Simon" It's called 'extrapolation' (look it up!). It's obvious you have never exercised your brain and extrapolated anything. This is a talent that is highly developed in a real sailboat skipper. A small sailboat almost becomes like an arm or a leg. It becomes an extension of one's body and one can use input from the way it moves, the heel, the roll, the sound of the water past the hull, the sound of the wind, etc. to extrapolate course and speed. If done regularly it becomes second nature. Most any competent sailboat skipper can do dead reckoning for long periods of time using nothing but his senses even if he is below most of the time. From what I understood Donal to say, the person taking the test, is in an enclosed space with no visual references and possibly muted noise, for the entire time ..... not at all what you are describing. What you describe is normal DR-ing, done by all, whether it be power, sail, open cockpit or closed wheelhouse. I once deduced my course so accurately and made corrections as I went along only by dead reckoning alone that after a passage of 18 hours from Beaufort N.C. I dead-centered the ship channel through Frying Pan Shoals at dawn - came close to hitting the sea buoy as a matter of fact after ducking below to make coffee and emerging to look over the bow at it. This is a talent NEVER developed by those who sit isolated in a pilot house on the bridge. S.Simon G Once again, your lack of experience is showing. It's still and continues to be obvious, that you have no conception of what goes on, onboard any type of vessel, other than your own, and that you have little ability to relate that experience to other circumstances, other than your own. Shen |
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"Simple Simon" wrote in message news:
Can't even spell Cajun. I can spell it : Coonass Joe S.Simon |
Professional Courtesy and Respect?
"Simple Simon" wrote in message ... "Rick" wrote in message ink.net... Nil, what are you doing in a thread labeled "Professional Courtesy and Respect?" Pay attention, Rick! I STARTED the thread! That *is* a very good answer. ...... Thank God that nobody has ever managed to deliver such a mortal blow to me! Regards Donal -- |
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"Joe" wrote in message om... "Donal" wrote in message ... "Joe" wrote in message om... What about 20 knots on a pitch black dark night, guess thats unsafe to. A yacht's lights are easier to see on a pitch black night than on a moonlit night. However, in thick fog, you can't see anything! What about a tree trunk the size of a car? Any running lights on it, How about a bouy, not all are lit. Hows about the typical weekend warrior who forgot to turn on his running lights, hows about a rocky jettie, how about a tow line and the million other things you can not see on a pitch black night? Are you really claiming that it is easy to avoid hitting a tree trunk at 25 kts? Are you saying that you think that it is easier to miss a buoy at 25 kts than at 4 kts?? Pull the other one, Joe -- I put some bells on it, just for you. That is really scary! To a lubber like you I imagine it is. Bet you would **** your pants if you ever landed on a airplane in the fog two. But 100's of them do it every day. Well, these days it is easy to land a plane. They land themselves. Fog has nothing at all to do with landing a modern aircraft. Regards Donal -- |
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"Joe" wrote in message m... (Roy G. Biv) wrote in message news Yeah, I recall a ferry smashing into the dock in the clear daylight not so long ago in NY. Accidents happen. They failed to maintain a proper lookout with radar. Has nothing to do with safe speed, the jerk you talked about most likely would of ran someone over at 3 knots. Are you claiming that you can maintain a proper lookout with radar alone? Regards Donal -- |
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