How many beers before jaxie starts to make sense?
 

Jeff,

The Noon sight would still have to be averaged as with a sextant. I
thought I took enough time.

About checking your fist and knuckles. It is done very easy. Stand in
the corner of a room, extend your fist and check how many fist it takes
to get 90 Degrees. (Two walls)

Give it a try. Its fun. Also telling time. A good estimate of time to
sunset. When the wind stops give you something to do. When your becalmed
the mast give a pretty good vertical reference point.

Ole Thom

How many beer boxes needed to navigate an ocean?
 

JAXAshby wrote:
over the nee, have you ever seen one? do you know how they operate?

if yes to either of those questions, why do you ask the question below?

I've used them on ships, and I had one on my 26' Contessa, which I was
able to use to get some relatively accurate fixes (at least accurate
enough for my needs).
Have YOU ever seen one or used one? So far, it's obvious you don't know
how to make use of one.
I ask the question, because I know your only knowledge of navigation,
comes from what you read, not from what you've done.

otn


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

How many beer boxes needed to navigate an ocean?
 

ah, look at the first on considered with sailboats??

http://www.compassweb.com/business/business_card/

It's for a Compass Visa credit card card. What does this have to do with
RDF?

SV


"JAXAshby" wrote in message
...
joony, google "compass card" and read the first entry.

A magnet compass pointing at a lighthouse?? Perhaps if the lighthouse
is coincidentally due magnetic north.

--
"j" ganz

How many beer boxes needed to navigate an ocean?
 

JAXAshby wrote:
jeffies, you said it all with:


I haven't used RDF


that we knew when you said it was accurate on a recreational sailboat to 2
degrees.


Everything I knew about RDF came from the Ray-Jeff manual,


if you hd paid attention, and thought things through, you would not have been
plowing through the granite ledges blindly in fog trusting your RDF to keep you
safe.

God takes care of fools and little children, jeffies. you got lucky. other
people didn't.


Jax ....Again .... all you know is what you read. YOU have little or
NO practical experience!!!

otn

How many beer boxes needed to navigate an ocean?
 

ROFLMAO, still. Keep reading the book jaxass. You're obviously too
stupid to realize how to plot bearings to obtain a fix.

yeah, that's it.


Get used to it Jax, you are a GPS navigator (if that). Unless you have
an electronic gismo to tell you where you are exactly, within a few
feet, without you having to use your limited intelligence, then you will
go into a high panic.
Have you ever used RDF in a marine environment? .... somehow, I
seriously doubt it.

otn

JAXAshby wrote:
see, over the nee (just as jeffies) doesn't know how RDF works. otherwise
he
wouldn't be making his silly statement below. And if his statement were
correct -- it is not -- then he would be explaning it easy detail.

but, he's dumb.


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?
 

so, over the nee, RDF tells you *only* where the signal came from but YOU can
tell more than that?

how so?

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

you do-do.

ROFLMAO


so, over the nee, what _does_ RDF tell *you* besides where the signal came
from?

shall we hold our breath waiting for your answer?


ROFLMAO ....again .... that's exactly what it tells me. Difference is, I
can make use of that information .... you're too stupid to.


otn

How many beer boxes needed to navigate an ocean?
 

OK, Jax, oh great boat show navigator....tell us how RDF works.
I need a good laugh.

otn

JAXAshby wrote:
kinda a strange way, jeffies, for you to tell us you were unable to google
enough info to back up your claim that you have known for years how RDF works.


Stay away from Maine, "Turn-Back-Jaxie," its way too scary for you! If you
thought the "rocks" at Hatteras were so scary you wanted to turn back, you
have
no business cruising where there are real rocks!

BOO!

How many beer boxes needed to navigate an ocean?
 

an *this* was accurate to what??

2 degrees? 5 degrees? what the hell knows how many degrees?

dude, wandering around in unknown waters with a obstacles nearby using an RDF
was stew ped. That *you* might have survived means only that *you* were lucky,
NOT fricken smart.

Get over it, AND thank your lucky stars.

okay, besides where the signal came from, over the nee, what else does the
RDF
equipment tell _you_?


And again, you're too stupid to understand or be able to make any use of
that information.
Keep reading the Bowditch, Jax

I see you are trying to make some stupid "Jax" point here, so I'll bite.
In the days when we were all making use of RDF (either for a fix or a
homing beacon or danger bearing) the "equipment" told us three possible
things: Station identity, relative bearing, or true bearing, to the tower.

Are you looking for something else?

otn

How many beer boxes needed to navigate an ocean?
 

I've used them on ships

*that* of course is exactly the same as a recreational sailboat.

I had one on my 26' Contessa,

yes, of course. that explains all.

which I was
able to use to get some relatively accurate fixes (at least accurate
enough for my needs).

sure, plus or minus 100%, distance. good enough to miss the granite ledges 60
yards away, right?

otn

How many beer boxes needed to navigate an ocean?
 

oh?

jeffies, you said it all with:


I haven't used RDF


that we knew when you said it was accurate on a recreational sailboat to 2
degrees.


Everything I knew about RDF came from the Ray-Jeff manual,


if you hd paid attention, and thought things through, you would not have
been
plowing through the granite ledges blindly in fog trusting your RDF to keep
you
safe.

God takes care of fools and little children, jeffies. you got lucky.
other
people didn't.


Jax ....Again .... all you know is what you read. YOU have little or
NO practical experience!!!

otn