How many beers before jaxie starts to make sense?
 

dude, I hope you believe in an afterlife, because you certainly are lost to
this one.

From: "The Carrolls"
Date: 3/6/2004 11:36 PM Eastern Standard Time
Message-id:

Perhaps it was not referred to as a U-boat, but it seems to me someone here
claimes that U-boat is a generic reference to submarines, you don't
happen to recall who that was do you?
http://www.bowfin.org/website/educat...rtle/article/a
rticle.htm Check out this page and then we will discuss weather there were
submarines as warships during the age of sail.
"JAXAshby" wrote in message
...
was it refered to -- in history -- as a "U-Boat"? if so, did it reduce
sail
powered to commercial vessels to nothingness? If not, when was sail
powered
commercial shipping kaput relative to U-Boats?



sail powered commercial shipping was kaput long before any u-boats got
on
this
side of the atlantic.

For your information, approximated 25% of ALL
commercial shipping vessels made in the last 50 years of sail
powered
shipping
sunk before the boats were retired. one in four.

it was those darn U-boats hiding in LIS.

SV

How many beer boxes needed to navigate an ocean?
 

obviously, jeffies, you don't understand English. try again.

RDF tell from direction the signal came from. That is all.

And it doesn't do it all that well.

now, TRY AGAIN, and don't be so stupid this time.

RDF tells you where -- and ONLY where -- a particular signal came from.

Sorry jax, I guess you don't know how it works. The chart or book tells you
where it comes from. The RDF tells you where that is relative to a boat.
Its
called an "LOP." They'll tell you about it in the Power Squadron course

How many beer boxes needed to navigate an ocean?
 

no, you are not.

RDF equipment used on recreational sailboats was not capable of that accuracy.

have you ever seen one, jeffies? Do you know how they operate? Do you know
why the operate?

How many beer boxes needed to navigate an ocean?
 

So with one RDF signal, and a chart, you have a "Line Of Position" or LOP. Add
in any other piece of information, like a depth contour, and you have a Fix.
Its called "piloting," jaxie, you should learn how to do it some time.

Clearly, if you had learned a few basics like this you would not have been
tempted to "turn back" at Hatteras even though you had a boat full of
electronics.



"JAXAshby" wrote in message
...
obviously, jeffies, you don't understand English. try again.

RDF tell from direction the signal came from. That is all.

And it doesn't do it all that well.

now, TRY AGAIN, and don't be so stupid this time.

RDF tells you where -- and ONLY where -- a particular signal came from.

Sorry jax, I guess you don't know how it works. The chart or book tells you
where it comes from. The RDF tells you where that is relative to a boat.
Its
called an "LOP." They'll tell you about it in the Power Squadron course

How many beer boxes needed to navigate an ocean?
 

"JAXAshby" wrote in message
...
no, you are not.
Actually Bowditch and other government references say "two degree" accuracy.


RDF equipment used on recreational sailboats was not capable of that accuracy.

As I said, I didn't expect better the 5 degrees.


have you ever seen one, jeffies?

As I said, I carried one board. I also regularly cruised on boats that had
them.

Do you know how they operate?

yes. You start by turning them on.

Do you know why the operate?

Physics, jaxie.

http://makeashorterlink.com/?Y4C5213A7

How many beer boxes needed to navigate an ocean?
 

okay, jeffies. you are trying to tell us you really do know something about
RDF.

so let's call your bluff.

Tell us -- if you can -- just RDF equipment pointing at some radio tower many
miles away is different from a magnetic compass pointing at some lighthouse a
mile away.

Address -- if you can -- the difference in accuracy (be specific as to degree
of uncertainty) between close at hand visional sighting and far away
auditory/cheap volt meter fixing, each system using much the same mechanical
measuring tools.

we will wait for your explanation, jeffies. particualary that "two degrees"
stuff.

jeffies, it never ceases to amaze me how ignorant you are AND how you can't
even seem to realize it.

So with one RDF signal, and a chart, you have a "Line Of Position" or LOP.
Add
in any other piece of information, like a depth contour, and you have a Fix.
Its called "piloting," jaxie, you should learn how to do it some time.

Clearly, if you had learned a few basics like this you would not have been
tempted to "turn back" at Hatteras even though you had a boat full of
electronics.



"JAXAshby" wrote in message
...
obviously, jeffies, you don't understand English. try again.

RDF tell from direction the signal came from. That is all.

And it doesn't do it all that well.

now, TRY AGAIN, and don't be so stupid this time.

RDF tells you where -- and ONLY where -- a particular signal came from.

Sorry jax, I guess you don't know how it works. The chart or book tells
you
where it comes from. The RDF tells you where that is relative to a boat.
Its
called an "LOP." They'll tell you about it in the Power Squadron course

How many beer boxes needed to navigate an ocean?
 

jeffies, I didn't ask you for a google site. I asked you to explan how RDF
works. It is simple, simple enough so I knew how it is done when I was still
in jr hs. I want to hear _your_ explanation, jeffies, and if you understood
it, you could explane it in less than 10 seconds.

but then if you understood it you wouldn't be such a fool as to say you could
get even 5* accuracy on a recreational sailboat.

btw jeffies, wanna explain how time of year effects RDF accuracy? How about
rain? Sunspots?

Go ahead. trying googling those facts (and they are facts in relation to RDF).

no, you are not.
Actually Bowditch and other government references say "two degree" accuracy.


RDF equipment used on recreational sailboats was not capable of that
accuracy.

As I said, I didn't expect better the 5 degrees.


have you ever seen one, jeffies?

As I said, I carried one board. I also regularly cruised on boats that had
them.

Do you know how they operate?

yes. You start by turning them on.

Do you know why the operate?

Physics, jaxie.

http://makeashorterlink.com/?Y4C5213A7

How many beer boxes needed to navigate an ocean?
 

JAXAshby wrote:
of course I am "aware"

RDF tells you where -- and ONLY where -- a particular signal came from.

you do-do.

ROFLMAO ..... and we are all AWARE, that you are incapable of making any
use of this information.


otn

How many beer boxes needed to navigate an ocean?
 

JAXAshby wrote:
obviously, jeffies, you don't understand English. try again.

RDF tell from direction the signal came from. That is all.

And it doesn't do it all that well.

now, TRY AGAIN, and don't be so stupid this time.


And again, you're too stupid to understand or be able to make any use of
that information.
Keep reading the Bowditch, Jax ....until then, we'll all enjoy laughing
at you.....not sure we've ever stopped....

otn

How many beer boxes needed to navigate an ocean?
 

JAXAshby wrote:
no, you are not.

RDF equipment used on recreational sailboats was not capable of that accuracy.

have you ever seen one, jeffies? Do you know how they operate? Do you know
why the operate?


And, you know this, how?


otn