navigating the old ways

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  1. safewalrus
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    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)
     
    safewalrus, Jun 21, 2007
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    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 :(
     
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    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.:(
     
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    Rumor has it these guys were using GPS ... :p :p
     

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    True. In Nelson's day he would have been flogged with the ear buds (cat 'o two tails). :D
     
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    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......"?
     
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    Watch it, Max, the PC police will be breaking down your door. :p :p
     
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    Depends if the sheik shrieked when shek threw him on the barbie!
     
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