Jim Donohue wrote:


Actually I am by training and a long career an engineer. It is what
seperates us OTN...you react I go for understanding.

No. I reason, while you go for understanding based solely on science and
engineering. Your problem is you don't understand how to use or make use
of the science and engineering you know, within the real world that
exist around us.


Sure your socks are soaked in salt...so perhaps is your brain. I think with
your long time frame at mis-understanding this stuff you are very well
qualifled for say Chief Officer on the Royal Majesty. He did a truly fine
job of successfully identifying the unidentifyable...as I am sure you would.
But he was really salty.

LOL I don't mis-understand this "stuff". If I had been Master or Chief
Officer on that ship, I would have realized early that "WE" had a
problem. "Salty" is not saying you have such and such a license or you
have made such and such trips. Salty is saying you've always made them
safely, taking into consideration the various conditions and noting the
possible errors in your systems and actions.


Wish you could have been on our little trip with the "freeway" Captain...you
could have helped him set the anchor.

LOL would have probably sat back and had a good laugh, as long as his
actions didn't endanger anyones safety.

I prefer to navigate around floating objects as well as fixed ones. If you
ignore the floaters I assure you something you would rather avoid is likely
to occur.

Jim


I try to ignore nothing ( not always successful), but I also try to
learn something new, every time I'm on the water, no matter how
insignificant, and unlike you, I'm still learning, not hung up on the
god, GPS.
The recent rains in S. Ca. have shown all of us, not only ways to see
currents, but the need to see the possibilities of way we can avoid many
of those dangerous floating hazards.

otn