where are you!

Ok I'll play Where, veiw ,local pub ,local beach (just kidding) but my favourite.

 

wowwwwwwwwwww
Bill, can I come stay,

 

ok poid, you can come stay we have a bed with no parrot

 

Whereare you

Take your lawnmower Stu, his grass needs cutting too......

 

No problem Stu but you better hurry were thinking of moving. Max we have three mowers that’s why we might move!

 

shall I drive down with my files)

 

Yeah, but you better rug up and borrow one of those ducks from the gold coast to get over the moat we now have between north and south.

 

Don't get all the local jokes (by definition!! ), but that is some nice country , and the pub's in a nice building. But if all twixt the shrubs and the mountains is yours, don't count on Laz for help mowing, he can't keep up with his small plot!!

 

actually I am lost, I took by sextant down , to have a go, and as I told Max, i COULD NOT MAKE IT WORK, !! had it upside down, 25 years in its box since last used it
gonna start thread on nav thr old way soon as I get the gears freed up

 

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Hold on Stu...if it appeared upside down - it could be a Northern Hemisphere sextant......

 

I've done that a few times. I've found it amazing how much better certain tools work when you hold them right side up.

 

That's a good idea; scary how many people have no clue about navigation, rely totally on electronics to tell them where they are. The military still requires officers to be able to navigate manually, but if systems ever went down, there'd be an awful lot of people lost and crashing into solid objects!

 

Where are you

My contribution - what and how do you use it ?

 

Where are you

And this...Yes I've used both in my time....

 

The first is the mariner's astrolabe, the precursor of the sextant. Measures angle of stars above the horizon. Made navigation "somewhat" more accurate (Stu, how do you tell if that thing is right side up?).

The second looks to be a chip log, for measuring speed in knots (literally). This was a Renaissance era high tech device which reduced the cost of shipping by eliminating the position of "log tosser" aboard ships. Log tossers, very large fellows, akin to Scots caber tossers, were once required to carry logs from the hold and toss them overboard so the mate could determine the ship's speed. They were, like caber tossers, very large fellows whose muscular development was in inverse proportion to their intellect. They were lazy as well, and not good for much except reducing the supply of fresh meat. The 16th century discovery that a small wooden plank, or "chip" gave speed calculations as accurate as those of the log gave rise to much celebration among seamen.