Off to Amsterdam and Texel

[makeitfit]

I shall be mainly missing in action next week :sly
I'm going to race in the biggest catamaran race in the world before I'm too bloody old to compete :augie
Driving out on monday and in theory back late late next sunday.
Inter plod permitting :lol
http://youtu.be/Pv69wFKFKE8

 

[(RIP) PLANK]

all the best with it mate:clap

you are certainly an adventurous man, I am in awe!

and you have good hair :thumb2

 

[solarman216]

Wish you luck mate, I love racing but not on water, Rick

 

[spinna]

Wishing u the best of luck mate:thumb2:bow

 

[makeitfit]

and you have good hair :thumb2

I may have competition out there as they have VERY attractive sheep, I've been doing my research :sly:lol

 

[(RIP) PLANK]

I may have competition out there as they have VERY attractive sheep, I've been doing my research :sly:lol

I said hair not wool, or is it a wig ? :augie


Have a great time and bring back a trophy :thumb2

 

[makeitfit]

I'll be trying very hard to avoid any organic spoon like prizes :lol

 

[R1cho]

dont u ever sit down for 5 mins? good luck in your quest to rule the waves and remember what happens in holland stays in holland :augie :naughty:naughty:naughty

 

[lacroupade]

dont u ever sit down for 5 mins? good luck in your quest to rule the waves and remember what happens in holland stays in holland :augie :naughty:naughty:naughty

Its OK, he's a smurf really.

 

[rustic]

remember what happens in holland stays in holland :augie :naughty:naughty:naughty

Unless you bring something back...

 

[(RIP) PLANK]

Unless you bring something back...

tulips? :nenau

 

[makeitfit]

Unless you bring something back...

A big bag of cookies :splif

 

[rustic]

Don't forget Dell Boy bringing back diamonds, in the film version " To Hull and Back"

Best part of that one was when Dell Boy asked for directions from a Gas Platform in the middle of the North sea.

Del..... "Holland ?"
Platform worker... " It's over there! " :bow

Del to Grandad and Rodney (Dave) " If ever you are lost you only have to ask someone " :nenau :nenau

 

[makeitfit]

I did that for real about 15 years ago. We were sailing from Inverness to Stavanger in Norway and had got a bit confused as to where we really were :augie Sailed up close to oil rig and radioed for directions :lol Strangely they weren't as helpful as we hoped , as were told to piss off rapidly incase we broke their rig
Ah the joys of pre gps navigating

 

[rustic]

I did that for real about 15 years ago. We were sailing from Inverness to Stavanger in Norway and had got a bit confused as to where we really were :augie Sailed up close to oil rig and radioed for directions :lol Strangely they weren't as helpful as we hoped , as were told to piss off rapidly incase we broke their rig
Ah the joys of pre gps navigating

Talking of Pre-GPS, I was sailing with my Father many years ago, we were circum navigating Anglesey, we were heading north to go up through the swellies at 4:00 am to catch the tide, we knew the heading so my Father took the heading and could see a light in the distance that was on the right heading and he followed that, I was below doing the breakfast, I looked around and I could see a trawler close by in the morning mist.

I said to my Father, " We are getting close to that trawler, we had better change heading"

B..... Hell he said I've been following that light for the past hour and a half...
We were now about 6 miles off course and we were unable to get through the swellies on this tide as the tidal rip was now greater than our top speed. :doh :lol :lol

We dropped the anchor in the estuary, added an additional anchor warp to it and still with 120 feet of line out we didn't manage to reach the bottom.

Going through the swellies is an experience and a half.

 

[makeitfit]

Aye :thumb2 I was originally taught to navigate with those RDF things, made you look like Biggles while trying to count blips and beeps :lol
We had a similar 180 degree cock up off Brittany :augie not a good place to be as the Amaco Cadiz found out :doh

 

[dennisgraham]

how do i post a question on here?

 

[rustic]

how do i post a question on here?

You just have.... :lol :lol

 

[rustic]

how do i post a question on here?

Go to HOME
Then FORUMSelect the area you want to post,
Then hit NEW THREAD.

 

[rustic]

Aye :thumb2 I was originally taught to navigate with those RDF things, made you look like Biggles while trying to count blips and beeps :lol
We had a similar 180 degree cock up off Brittany :augie not a good place to be as the Amaco Cadiz found out :doh

We had a seafix hand held unit with a hand bearing compass on top, or you could remove this and fix a handle to it.
The Seafix unit was quite good, with air powered head phones, you had to know the call sign in morse code, for the station you were trying to take the bearing from. Once you got a null ( No sound) you knew you were pointing at it.... OR away from it... hence the 180 degrees....

With 2 such fixes you could draw 2 lines on your paper chart, where they cross is where you are...... in theory, but errors occur :augie
If you try taking another fix and draw that on, you will end up with a triangle.
The smaller the better, and you may be within that triangle......:augie

GPS ... too easy these days.
Trouble is the sand banks are always moving so you need the latest charts.