Manufacturer's claims do not always match up with reality.
> Your post #1 link says... That link is a Wikipedia link, and I was checking if Wikipedia's information was right. I vaguely remember someone...
Are these fishing-boat-type codes only for fishing boats? Or can one be put on e.g. a dredger or a tug or whatever sort of work boat which is...
See Port letter and number - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_letter_and_number The letter-and-number codes seen on fishing boats:...
How near to topic is it to discuss navigation hazards? See Goodwin Sands - Wikipedia...
I once met someone who said that he liked diesel exhaust smell because it reminded him of boating holidays.
There is a law in Australia that all large diesel vehicles must have vertical exhaust pipes. I once even saw there a vertical exhaust pipe on a...
Thanks. But I saw a real example of antisocially-placed diesel exhaust pipes :: when I was younger, I scuba dived (I have got rid of my diving...
I found this image on the web: Stock Photo - stern of a ship with the exhaust pipe of the diesel engine...
I am sorry to appear likely very silly, but prompted by a cartoon that I saw, have any of you heard of someone in Arctic or Antarctic waters,...
Thankfully I am teetotal.
I meant a patch on ONE eye, and leave the other open to see with in the sunlight.
I found in a newspaper a letter from a reader guessing that "the common image of a pirate with an eyepatch came from a sailor in former times in a...
Over several holidays scuba diving in the Red Sea I saw enough of where the average warm-water about-100-foot diving liveaboard keeps its parts,...
Thanks.
Please, do any of you have any good images of the gun that fires a rocket that trails a line, sometimes used in getting a line onboard a vessel in...
Rudyard Kipling in his book "Captains Courageous" (about old-type Grand Banks cod fishing with schooners (made with a stump foremast) that carried...
Including Norwalk virus - which I have had already, but on land. Does that leave me immune to it?
steam venturi propulsion - Google Search...
Thanks for all your information, which I have studied well. But, again, please, as a starting point for the ratio-type equations:- (1) If a...
