navigating the old ways

[safewalrus]

What's a GPS? can it make the coffee?

Remember BP tankers are largish vessels (the ones I was on were) and have mains electricity don't fail as often as 12 volt stuff - nor as close to the water (which helps the failure rate)

[Bergalia]

Originally Posted by safewalrus

What's a GPS? can it make the coffee?

Coffee? Walrus ? This thread is for 'navigating the old ways'...and coffee surely has no place in 'old ways'...Tea at a pinch - but more likely ale, 'geneva', or watered rum....So the question wouldn't arise

[Bergalia]

Perhaps not a GPS - but a news item today on Australian national news records that when members of a Royal Australian Navy boarding party clambered onto an Iranian gunboat and confiscated a crewmember's i-Pod - he burst into tears... Would never have happened in Nelson's day.

[charmc]

Originally Posted by lazeyjack

God youa re so old fashioned!! get wiv it!! ese I will neg rep ya

Rumor has it these guys were using GPS ...

[charmc]

Originally Posted by Bergalia

Perhaps not a GPS - but a news item today on Australian national news records that when members of a Royal Australian Navy boarding party clambered onto an Iranian gunboat and confiscated a crewmember's i-Pod - he burst into tears... Would never have happened in Nelson's day.

True. In Nelson's day he would have been flogged with the ear buds (cat 'o two tails).

[Bergalia]

Further to the above tidbit - it seems (according to a RAN spokesman) that the Iranians also tried to board an Aussie vessel (much as they did the Brits) but, and I quote: "They were driven off with the use of colourful language...."

Perhaps: "Throw another sheik on the barbie......"?

[charmc]

Originally Posted by Bergalia

Perhaps: "Throw another sheik on the barbie......"?

Watch it, Max, the PC police will be breaking down your door.

[safewalrus]

Depends if the sheik shrieked when shek threw him on the barbie!