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Thread ID: 142510	2016-07-14 23:24:00	Paging our Navigators.	B.M. (505)	PC World Chat

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1423091	2016-07-16 06:18:00	Obviously when seas were first named there were no fixed terrestrial points to mark boundaries, unlike on land. With GPS it would be possible to put lines of anchored buoys to mark agreed boundaries :clap Maybe the disputes in the South China sea will help to fix some sea boundaries there in some way or other. My old mate Capt Ron Hovenden RN (RIP) would have sorted out the Chinks when he patrolled the area in the 1930s shooting up pirates. Well, there shouldn't be any need for any modern electronics, or buoyage, as Captain Cook and his counterparts were amazingly accurate with their navigation. I'll bet we'd all be equally amazed at how many Skippers these days couldn't get a Sextant out of its box let alone use it. As an aside I have some very old Charts (somewhere) of seas around Great Britain and on them is the exact location of Icebergs, when they were sighted and how far South they were. Make a Greenie weep. :D	B.M. (505)
1423092	2016-07-16 06:37:00	Whenever I go out on the local lake, I never feel the need for a sextant, though I do have one in a box on my canoe. The canoe allows one to feel the bumps as we pass from one part of lake to another.	Cicero (40)
1423093	2016-07-16 06:53:00	As an aside I have some very old Charts (somewhere) of seas around Great Britain and on them is the exact location of Icebergs, when they were sighted and how far South they were. Interesting question though ... how did the mariners of the day receive updates? Icebergs are notorious drifters and shape changers (settle down, all you conspiracy theorists); M$ Maps and Google Earth had yet to be invented, and changes to HM Admiralty Charts took years to implement. Are you onto something here, B.M.? A new theory regarding the sinking of RMS Titanic perhaps? :)	WalOne (4202)
1423094	2016-07-16 06:59:00	Whenever I go out on the local lake, I never feel the need for a sextant, though I do have one in a box on my canoe . The Waikanae lagoon is not a lake . . . your sextant needs a WOF, me thinks :lol:	WalOne (4202)
1423095	2016-07-16 09:16:00	Are you onto something here, B . M . ? A new theory regarding the sinking of RMS Titanic perhaps? :) Well no Wal, no new theory . As I understand it, the waters were known to have Icebergs and an errant one had been reported by radio . But history has a habit of repeating itself and I’m told that (despite the enquiry bull) the navigating officer of the Rena that sank (with a little bit of help) off Mt Maunganui needed to make up time so he took a shortcut . However, I’m sure you are well aware that making a bloody great rock a waypoint and not offsetting it is not a good idea . It must be said though there was nothing wrong with his Charts or Automatic Pilot because he Middled the damn thing . But the one that takes the cake is our intrepid Harbour Master and Pilot that managed to sink a Russian Cruise liner in Peace Time . Got ourselves a Diving Wreck for sweet FA off the Russians . Love it . :lol:	B.M. (505)
1423096	2016-07-16 09:24:00	Where do they meet? At the Give Way sign.	Zippity (58)
1423097	2016-07-16 21:51:00	But the one that takes the cake is our intrepid Harbour Master and Pilot that managed to sink a Russian Cruise liner in Peace Time. Got ourselves a Diving Wreck for sweet FA off the Russians. Love it. :lol: People are still shaking their heads in disbelief over that one - and that he continued to be employed by the Marlborough Harbour Board :groan::groan:	WalOne (4202)
1423098	2016-07-16 23:10:00	I think seas are components of oceans, being bounded on two or more sides by land. Would be hard to find a well defined border between two bodys of water as you wonder BM I was under the impression that as the tide in the gin bottle went out, that answers to everything become clearer.	Whenu (9358)
1423099	2016-07-17 00:06:00	To think of the indignation when Fred flew this beast under the bridge. :lol: 7310	B.M. (505)
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