Red Eyes at the Early Skies. Day 6 Yachtmaster Prep, I'll certainly not be home for Christmas. E.P. techniques clearing, it's not taking as long. My dyslexia is needing less compensation to find the right answers. 😲🙏🏽
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Passage Plan was lacking Radio Weather station at destination. Also, secondary tide differences needed to be revised.
Weather needs revision and more thorough understanding. It's clear enough but they're asking for the witch. Had problems negotiating the reflections of light on water at night. Must remember to bring and command, A TORCH, during night passages. Get variation right! Use a watch for monitoring time and tidal depth observation. I've used the rule of twelths to avoid being caught in low tides. The range divided by 12 and observed in hours as 1/12, 2/12, 3/12, 3/12, 2/12, 1/12. Providing the rate of increase and decreasing in 6 hours. More familiarisation of the local water must be taken into my considerations. I tend to overcomplicate things. The leading line on a lateral buoy does not need to taken as though it's a Geographical Position of a celestial body. (It did look go when I made it that bright though.) Day 1 with yacht master crew. I'm able to recall most things, but I'm practising anyhow.
The difficulty is the variables of a controlled environment with an unknown crew. My errors are so random here but that also forces me not to make any. Just keeping my focus to do well enough really is 100%, yet, zero, is my concern. Thinking to the merits of everyone, I can at least create something passable in myself. Anyone who is as bad at maths as I am, turn away😩. 10 - 20 books later I break this down and it still might not be the correct method but I think it is and it's correct for me to use tomorrow. 😄, goodnight 😴.
The earth turns 15 degrees in an hour 60 minutes in an hour 180 degrees N - S (90 degrees to equator) 180 degrees S - N (90 degrees from equator) 360 degrees around the equator from GM (180 degrees W/ 180 degrees E) Each degree has 60 minutes Each minute has 100 seconds (not 60 but a Cable of 100ths of a minute) So 60 minutes 10 cables = 1 nm 0.6 nm at 6 knots takes 6 minutes |
AuthorAaron Dia Pemberton. RYA qualified skipper. Trawler yacht captain of T&Eadapt Categories |