I remember watching a documentary on transfer of organisms in ballast water a year or so back, mainly to do with dredging the Thames estuary.
Interesting.
Roy

How I know about the design on a gondola is research I have done in the past.
This is from my archives.
The article is in Italian, which in spite of family ties, I don't speak but the drawing is obvious.

The only reason I know the answer to this is a member of our club works for a company that designs and builds this equipment and he gave a talk at a club meeting on water purification.

Certification for a master foreign going certificate is done by examination and the pass mark on R of the R is 100%

Certainly becoming harder to deduce the correct answer from multiple choice answers

No sure you average ships officer needs to know all this information either but then again my background is not in merchant ships

The only way that I could answer the Colreg question was to download the 62 page COLREG manual and look it up.😔☹️. I can now safely sail a ship or boat, except that I cannot swim 😔☹️🙄.😀.

Quite an interesting question, I think Ai is changing it's ideas of not letting us get a clue from the answers😠. Have I cheated !!????
I think that the captain of a ship would probably have a copy of the Colregs document on his ship ??🤔.

Rules is rules he he 😁
Philuk👍

I must confess to researching answers, but not fron Gurgle. I have several books dealing with nautical matters, for example, the 1956 edition of The Admiralty Manual of Seamanship, several RYA training manuals, Advanced Powerboat, Yachtmaster etc so I use books only when I have to. I still get stuff wrong and have never got to first place, second place for about 3 days is the highest I've been.

Why are they stupid and the answer options rediculous ? - either you know the answer or you dont simples.

I still dont understand how these people can get 100% all the time its just not natural, for an example for someone thats used to driving a frigate about why would they know anything about the construction of a gondola.

Whats the point in taking part if you look up the answer before answering the question.

That is the most stupid question ever. I looked it up!
Roy

Ridiculous set of options for an answer. I can usually work out the correct option, but just a list of numbers is impossible. All that’s left is guesswork, no idea at all what the options refer to.

Phew, lucky stab produced results!

ROY!!! All so true!
That just made my day!!! Thanks for posting!!!
👍😂😂😂

I found this written in stone when it came down the mountain.
"If your wife wants something done, do it now" There are so many benefits!

You will not be nagged.
You will have more time for your own work. i.e. no nagging time.
Your wife will boast of your virtues.
You will have much more admiration from your wife's friends! (dodgy one that

There will be more tolerance for your model boats. I was even allowed to keep one on show"! Well just for 2 weeks.

Your wife's friends husbands will ask you how you do it?
You may start self help courses for them, perhaps at the local hostelry.

You will live longer! This is specialised knowledge.

On doing some research, I prefer to shop in Morrisons rather than Sainsbury's If you do not believe me check out the Birthday cards!
Morrisons have them for age 100, Sainsbury's don't.
Regards
Roy

Stumbled into the question after a long while and got lucky.
That's always a good way to start the day. 😊

BTW: My kits await as I build this winter sunroom for my wife. Well, it's a kind of wood-working. Just a ton heavier than balsa, but I don't get CA all over my fingers!!!!!
😂😂😂

Well got it right today but still got wrong ones in the system when you drop one it takes ages to get rid of it ho hum one day I will get there but it will take a long time at the rate I keep getting them wrong ha ha
Philuk👍

Nine years and three weeks ago We were on a gondola from the Grand canal around the one-way system and singing "O solo mio".
No that's not true as I also heard "Just one cornetto". Those b****y bridges and stairs, the pizza was good. One of the most exploited places ever!!
Roy

Hi Ed, I like it!😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

I chose the answer with "asymmetrical" in it as I knew it wasn't symmetrical.

We will keep asking the same questions till everyone gets them right. 😂

Haven't been on in ages, wrong 😐. Must try harder 😁

Repeat question...

A repeat question that I got wrong the last time 😀.

gondola

none are correct
left (port) wider curve, bulged, longer. & FATTER not flatter
starboard is flat

8 different species of wood

asymetrical

flat bottomed for canal work

Deja vu🙄
G'nite All,
Doug😎

Lucky guess
Rick

I'm with Roy on these last two questions . I took the most descriptive of the three after eliminating one as being highly unlikely 🤗🤔.
The Kelvin wake one was ok, as I remember standing near the back of the Isle of man ferries and being mesmerised by this wake that the ship was making 🙄.

No idea but chose the most descripive answer.
Roy

Ai at its best again thought it was anchor or fishbone . Start building again
Philuk👍

And I thought this was the symbol 🤣

Answer D gave the longest explanation, and it seemed to be the most feasible one of the bunch to go for, using fg as an abbreviation of foul ground, so I went for that one 🤞😊..
I nearly picked B, the anchor with the X through it, but went for the most detailed explanation of the two 😆.

I doth protest - has AI got it wrong or is it deliberately setting a trap - according to NP5011 there are several markings that can be used to denote Foul Ground
I chose one answer to be told it was wrong when clearly in NP5011 it is correct!!

A guy I knew was responsible for the update of plans for the hotels owned by the railways. Basically to put measurements into metres et. al.
One hotel did not submit there information and he contacted them telling them it was to convert yards and feet into metres etc.

They came back with the information that our plans are in Rods, Poles and perches! Before the Imperial system came into use.
Roy

Hey Ed, I thought we are all merticalated now, all terms unified and done away with...🤔🤔🤔

Nautical Miles, Cables, Chains, Cape Feet and Furlongs to name but a few that only serve to confuse us.😂

Well now he tells me, ☹️☹️ You could have said that before I answered the bl***y question. 😁😁😁😀🙄😂😂.

(Only joking Pat )..

Obviously not a navigator Steve although the traditional answer is a cable is one tenth of a nautical mile

Hahh well, 😮 anchoring in the question and anchor chain in my answer didn't work out this time 😆. I had no idea,😔☹️ ----anyway I still use feet and inches and miles..😁😁 😠. So lesson learnt " not always is the answer in the question.!! Probably a very easy one for Pat.👍👍

I ruled out cavitation threshold, that's to do with propellers 🙄 and didn't think it was boundary layer seperation 🤔. So I nearly went for Froude resonance, but like Nick I saw speed in both the question and the answer so picked that 🙄

I chose the answer where "speed" was mentioned in both the question and the answer.

Ah! A Froudian slip perhaps?

Rats! Great BIG, fat, grey long tailed RATS!😠
Led astray by the Froude name, up the garden path, deluded and betrayed by the great William.🤔 The 30 day trek starts AGAIN😭

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OOPs! Never heard of it. I wonder if I am going to get a lecture on the subject?
Roy

I didn't think that it was the USA coast guard ship, so ruled that out (wrongly l found that out later).
So the earliest date and the fact that the ship was called Antarctica in Russian was the one that I went for, otherwise I didn't have any real idea.
This time I don't think that you could really say " The answer is in the question " 🙄🤔. I waited in anticipation for the confetti-----, and then it dropped 👍🤗.

Speaking of birthdays, my birthday is the anniversary of the first clash with the Spanish Armada in 1588.

Anyone else got birthday anniversaries?
Roy

Wow I think this is the highest I have got so far bound to get it wrong next pulled the answer out from the back of my mind just new it was Russians
Philuk👍

This question has just reminded me of something I was going to ask the members. I was watching a BBC programme some time ago. In it there was a very modern ice breaker, which went astern into the ice. The design caused it to rise up onto the ice, thus cracking it and the propellers acted as ice crushers pushing the slush down the sides of the hull. Has anyone got any info on it or even come across it? Just add a bit more. I think it was a cargo ship and not just an ice breaker..

Lovely when the answer is in the question - no idea, so just used the dates.

I’m the same, knew it was Russians but not the name or year.🤓

I knew it was the Soviets that reached the Noeth Pole, but not the ship name, until now!

How could I forget?
Happened on my 26th birthday😉

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