Ooh ark at you class swot 🤣🤣🤣, I got it wrong but I am new to sailing 😜 my memory is rubbish so ask same question tomorrow and I will still get it wrong 🤣🤣🤣
Phil UK

I got me deviation mixed up with me variation. Deviation is the effect the ship it's self has on the compass. As soon as I went for the wrong answer I remembered the little rhyme.
"Variation West, compass best.
Variation East compass least."

Yes, Declination is the correct term. Too bad I missed it as well.

Thought it was declination, but my memory is not fully functional today!

I think the question could have been better worded, such as, "What is the term for the difference between magnetic north and true north" then I might have got it right 😀

Dang it!!

thought it was devation.

I too picked the wrong answer, (b). I was about to say that declination was the correct answer but I see that magnetic variation is sometimes used interchangeably. I believe declination is most often used particularly on this side of the pond.

Well….I missed it!!🤣

Scary critters aren't they?

Wonder if they will make any more episodes

Anyone who has ever watched the Australian TV series 'Sea Patrol' will get this one right😉

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Wasn't William Turner captain of the Flying Dutchman for a LITTLE while?

Well boys do your best for the women and children and look after yourselves.

Famous last words.
Roy

The Answers here mentioned 'Lake Chad'.. I was there (Chad) on business many years back and from all the odd things I saw, there were dozens of stalls along the side of the roads, selling Gasoline out of any glass bottles they could find.. (milk, wine even beer bottles) I asked the driver "why bottles and why is the gasoline RED?" He replied "Its the easiest way for us to sell it and its RED to stop the children drinking it"!!

Go figure.......

I've been there also. I thought Nairobi looked a little "rough".

After I got home, I visited Philadelphia, then I realized Nairobi was really pretty nice.

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Bin there dun that.
No T shirts available to buy though, probably coz it was only a few years after the end of the Idi Amin (Dada) era and the country and Kampala/Entebbe were still in a mess.🙄 Fortunately Sheraton were quick of the mark building a decent hotel in Kampala.

Curious flight from Nairobi to Entebbe.
I had a window seat, by virtue of being quick off the mark in the free for all rush for a decent seat. I was a few years and adventures younger back then😉
An 'ample' lady then occupied 'both' seats to my left, with a box of LIVE CHICKENS on her lap😮
I ended up feeding them my somewhat dried up sandwich 'in flight lunch'.
The sandwich reminded me of historical British Rail sandwiches, banana shaped.
Just when you think you've seen everything!!
Cheers, Doug😎

The answers are OK it’s the question that is wrong.
It should be “Which is not a sea route connecting the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean”
Answer “ The Cape Route”
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Hi cashrc. I have similar problems with my iPad. It has latest update etc and is only 1 year old. If I add wrong photo to a blog and need to delete it, the site shuts down and when I open up all the photos have gone and I have to start again!!, adding the photos. another quirk is if scrolling through the forum I happen to catch the “ post reply” tab along the bottom of the screen it will not delete when pressing the X button, this just shuts the site down. On opening up its still there, the reply page is still open and will minimise and will only go if I post it blank or comment,!!

Test- well, when I try to delete a post it kicks me off the site, when back on post is still here. Only happens on the IPad though, not on windows or strangely enough, my IPhone.

Lucky guess today, or it’s all the whale documentaries that Teresa watches….😁

Hi Austin,
If you want to scrub a post simply --
Click on the Edit button in the top right hand corner to open the editing window,
then click on the 'dustbin' (trash can) icon in the top left hand corner to delete the post.
Doug

I would have to agree with your statement Ross.
But I must confess that I don't see what it has to do with the price of corned beef?!
(Or owt else😉)
Doug😎

Doug.

. . . and the Arctic Ocean is an Ocean and not a SEA route?!?😉

I take it that ocean going and pleasure traffic using it everyday made it a direct water connection from east to west. Win some lose some
AustinG😀

True Austin,
But the question also asked for a 'sea route', whereas the Panama 'Canal' is a series of canals and inland lakes.🤔
Doug B😎

The question said Famous so I would suggest that the only real famous one in use to day on a daily basis by all type of vessel is the Panama.
AustinG😀

Hi Doug

I suppose that is true in spite of the tales of China clippers rounding Cape Horn 😏

I agree Ed, but I concluded that the Magellan Strait was probably the least well known, ergo not exactly famous.
Cheers, Doug😎

There are three correct answers, The Straights of Magellan connects the Atlantic to the Pacific.
It was used long before the Northwest Passage was successfully navigated and even longer that the Panama Canal.
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I believe there are two correct answers, Panama Canal is the other one.

If it was NOTORIOUS sea route yes, NWP

I got todays question wrong.
Should have read the question and thought about it before I jumped in and answered the Panama Canal. It say's famous SEA route, the Northwest Passage. But isn't this still a dangerous route due to ice and is it still under Canadian ruling and Ice breakers escort as well as needs Canadian Government permission?? Isn't that why the Panama Canal was built even though for certain destination's it was a longer route. These are things I remember from things I learnt at school in history, weird I thought some Of what i listened to would never be of any use. but am I wrong ? did I get it wrong or was I told wrong. Also I just got this question wrong and I have just dropped from 93% to 89% ??

Hi Doug I was there in Sept. 2016 on an excursion from cruise ship Queen Elizabeth. I think I bought a hat in Taormina which seems to have gone now. Etna did nothing at all and looked like a pile of rubble, but that was just my thoughts. I was on the cruise to tick off some boxes like that and Venice and a trip on a gondola and actually being on a cruise. Very nice as it was, it was not my kind of holiday. The food and service and cabin (with balcony) was excellent.

They charge a fortune to use Broadband, one of the lifeboats, used for transfer to port etc. broke down when we were in it, still moored to ship fortunately. Interesting to see the old Yugoslavia as we had been there before they started fighting.

When we entered Cadiz I had just finished breakfast on the balcony and thinking how pleasant it all was. Took out my camera and took a picture of my empty plate of croisants and Tiptree marmalade and made sure the slogan in the lid was visible to read.
I thought no more of it, then when reviewing photos about 3 weeks after I came across the photo and sent it off to the makers of the marmalade, I really like marmalade!

By return I had a request from Tiptree asking if they could use it as a Tweet? Also asked me for my address, I said yes. A week or so later a parcel arrived, I thought goody goody some marmalade! I was a little disappointed to find a 3 bottle case of fruit gin, most of which I still have.
Prevously I had ticked off going to Jerusalem and seeing the sights, if you have not been, make sure you have some warm clothes! Also on the way, swimming in the Dead Sea, beware of having sunburn as well. You just float on top!

I still have 2 boxes left to tick and they may remain empty, sorry but not sharing them!

regards
Roy

Bin there dun that, forgot to buy the T shirt🙄
Unforgettable excursion up Mount Etna. What a pong though🙊 Sulphur!
As our ship left Taormina in the evening Etna gave us a Goodbye firework display send off💥💥😮😀

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Wassa difference Phil?
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Don't mind looting but it all that pillaging that don't like to much of 🤣🤣
Phil uk

A current docu series on German TV opened my eyes to the versatility of the Vikings and the three phases of their expansion through Europe (far beyond Willy the First's humble abode Roy.) Incidentally Roy the Vikings first incursion into England was long before Willy; Lindisfarne, June 793. The Vikings who settled in northern France (Normandy) became the Normans (Northmen).
Phase 1; pillaging, rape and general mayhem through western Europe.
Phase 2; Settling down to establish settlements and a trade network.
Vikings established Norse settlements and governments in the British Isles, the Faroe Islands, Iceland, Greenland, Normandy, and the Baltic coast, as well as along the Dnieper and Volga trade routes across modern-day Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine. They even made it as far as Constantinople (Istanbul), Arabia and Iran.
Phase 3; Collapse of their trading empire and reversion to pillaging as other empires rose and challenged them.
Sorry Maurice but many of them actually were "respected business leaders, and family men" but not just back home (in modern Scandinavia) but where they had been settled for generations during the 200 hundred years or so of the so called 'Viking Age'.
Incidentally, the Vikings were also instrumental in coalescing the multifarious Viking clans into the three states we know today; Norway, Sweden, Denmark.
(The Finns are another story with a language with little or no resemblance to anything else on Earth. To my great relief I discovered, in 1983 after a rail journey to Helsinki from Moscow, that they all speak English as well😀), helped I must admit by a very nice Finnish girl I had met in the hotel in Moscow😊 Happy memories, and another shaggy dog story; why I was in Moscow and why I stayed much longer than planned. Think Korean Air Lines flight 007!

Doug😎

I would agree Viking activities fell under the category of raping, pillaging and causing all kinds of mahem on whomever they encountered. The ironic part is many of these "traders" were actually considered respected business leaders, and family men back home. I guess "Viking" Is the ultimate definition of " boys' night out!

guess thats what historians call Trade,🤓

If looting and pillaging had been up there that would have been my answer, and I would have been wrong. A lucky guess again for today. 👍😁

Are you learning how to build bridges?

I was casually reading some history of the Vikings and they were also refered to as the Norwegians. They started to move south no doubt trading with axes in their own inimitable fashion. Getting as far as France and William 1 ( I can't think of a little fat bloke as a conquerer), was a direct descendent of this invading lot. He died early on and he was so extended around the waist that at his funeral a final push to get the coffin lid down made him burst! I don't even want to think about that!

The English King Harold had only been on the thrown for 9 months and the French bloke thought he was more 'entitled' than Harold. We still have 'entitled' people and they can be a real pain. I remember many years ago when some of the hereditary peers were removed from the Lords, one of them said at interview he thought he had been born to rule and instruct others!
History then is no more reliable than history now, as forgotten old truths lay alongside the modern fake ones.

To some people 'facts' are dangerous!
I'm off to run my Bridge class, where logic prevails!

cheers.

Roy

Looting and pillaging would have been my answer too. I suppose relieving folk in neighbouring countries of their goods and chattels using extreme violence could be loosely described as 'trade', "I'll trade you this axe in the head for your goods and chattels"....

Hi ed pllage and subduction!
Roy

Thought it was sailing to other countries to pillage them 😂, but that was not one of the options.

RN,
You are correct, Dias named it Cape of Storms but when he returned to Portugal the king changed this to Cape of Good Hope as it was a route to the spice producers of Asia. After the Dutch East India Company established a re-supply station here the names became interchangeable.
Another myth is that the Cape Point is the southern tip of Africa, the southern most part of Africa is Cape Aguascalientes which is about 100 miles east of Cape Point.

Hey! I am in Charleston SC, and of course ran over to the Yorktown. If for no other reason, it has the greatest collection of model warships anywhere on Earth on board. Some of which are on a Titanic scale...1:100 and larger, buried in the labyrinth of decks and ward rooms. I must see.

Doug,

Soooo, NOT the same same guy who named GREENLAND? THAT GUY SHOULD BE SUED FOR FALSE ADVERTISING😉

Hope you are all well now Cash🤞
Only ten days now to Launch Date for the Puffer!!😁
Bon chance mon ami.
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