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📝 Question of the Day?
3 days ago by 🇬🇧 SimpleSailor (
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Thinking about it. The one I got wrong was the one where the question didn't have a correct answer in the options so I guessed at what I thought was correct.🤣
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📝 Question of the Day?
3 days ago by 🇬🇧 SimpleSailor ( Warrant Officer)
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Hi Roycv.
I get it now. Thanks for the explanation.👍
I get it now. Thanks for the explanation.👍
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💬 Re: Modified Stiletto project
3 days ago by 🇬🇧 SimpleSailor ( Warrant Officer)
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That is looking very nice.
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📝 Question of the Day?
3 days ago by 🇬🇧 SimpleSailor ( Warrant Officer)
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Hi. Can anyone explain why my own average score went down from 100% to 97% when I got one question wrong and now I have had three questions in a row correct it is still at 97%??😀
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📝 Question of the Day?
5 days ago by 🇬🇧 SimpleSailor ( Warrant Officer)
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The SS Great Britain was made from Iron. Not steel. Good old AI. I said the Titanic because it was made from Steel. However according to my research the first actual STEEL hulled ship was the SS Servia. A bit miffed as I have been at 100% for weeks now.
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📝 Question of the Day?
11 days ago by 🇬🇧 SimpleSailor ( Warrant Officer)
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Bit of a strange one this. The helm is the place where steering, navigation and all basic control functions take place. It is not the name of the "boats steering wheel" The Helm has the ship/boats wheel in it. I have never known the actual wheel to be called the Helm. However I got it right as I knew it was wrong. 🤣
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📝 Question of the Day?
1 month ago by 🇬🇧 SimpleSailor ( Warrant Officer)
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Well I am now at 100% for the month. How long before that gets messed up with some weird question 😀. Come on UK we are only at 85%.
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📝 Question of the Day?
2 months ago by 🇬🇧 SimpleSailor ( Warrant Officer)
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I agree with Chum444. It could just be that some people around the world use different phrases. However I live in the UK and went straight to haul-out. Although I have never heard anyone say "are we doing a haul-out today?" it is usually things like "are we going to haul that boat out today?" Certainly hauling something out of the water is very common. My dad used to tell me about hauling the small boats out of the water during his summer job on the island of Millport Scotland. According to the Cambridge dictionary the verb Haul means "to pull something heavy slowly and with difficulty"
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💬 Re: PHASE CHANGE automation.
2 months ago by 🇬🇧 SimpleSailor ( Warrant Officer)
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Nice. Interesting sound card. Just need the black smoke to pour out when revving up 😀
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💬 Re: Riviera
2 months ago by 🇬🇧 SimpleSailor ( Warrant Officer)
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That is one very nice looking boat.😀👍
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📝 Question of the Day?
2 months ago by 🇬🇧 SimpleSailor ( Warrant Officer)
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Here we go again. USS Nautilus is a submarine not a ship.
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📝 Question of the Day?
2 months ago by 🇬🇧 SimpleSailor ( Warrant Officer)
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I am not sure how it sailed to the Antarctic in 1900 as according to my information the keel was laid in 1900 and the ship launched in 1901.
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📝 Question of the Day?
3 months ago by 🇬🇧 SimpleSailor ( Warrant Officer)
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I wasn't going to answer as the question is stupid. However I guessed right. The actually answer is not there. "Sheer Stupidity" is the correct answer. 😂😂😂
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📝 Question of the Day?
3 months ago by 🇬🇧 SimpleSailor ( Warrant Officer)
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I agree with you Singingpug. If the question setter cannot be bothered to do the research in the first place what is the point. All of the % I have lost have been over questionable answers. I must admit I like doing the research to find the answers because it keeps the old grey matter ticking but we need better QC in the setting of the questions. No I am not volunteering. 😂
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📝 Question of the Day?
3 months ago by 🇬🇧 SimpleSailor ( Warrant Officer)
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Well I got it wrong. No surprise. I picked "B" because the actual answer was not there. Grace Darling Lighthouse is actually Longstone Lighthouse. I didn't know it had been renamed I just thought it had an association with Grace Darling the keepers daughter. It is an actual fact that Trinity House do not call it Grace Darling. They call it Grace Darlings home. It is not the name of the lighthouse.
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📝 Question of the Day?
3 months ago by 🇬🇧 SimpleSailor ( Warrant Officer)
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I think this should have been worded "What was the first metal used to build a ship" the correct answer would be "Iron" because it asking about the whole ship. However the way it is worded the could well be copper. Anyway I got it right 😀
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3 months ago by 🇬🇧 SimpleSailor ( Warrant Officer)
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Well I got this right the last time it was asked. I thought it was worded slightly different and they were trying to catch me out. So I chose B. Piloting is only used in restricted waters where you can see a landmark or other navigation point.⛵😊
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📝 Question of the Day?
3 months ago by 🇬🇧 SimpleSailor ( Warrant Officer)
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If anyone is interested in how a ships log gets it data this site is interesting.
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3 months ago by 🇬🇧 SimpleSailor ( Warrant Officer)
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Here we go again. The answer given as correct is wrong. The sheer is the curvature of the deck line it is not the curvature of the main hull. Ref:
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3 months ago by 🇬🇧 SimpleSailor ( Warrant Officer)
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Well I got that wrong as it was a pure guess.
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📝 Question of the Day?
3 months ago by 🇬🇧 SimpleSailor ( Warrant Officer)
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The only horn I could think of was Foghorn Leghorn. Maybe it would play a looney tune. 😀
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4 months ago by 🇬🇧 SimpleSailor ( Warrant Officer)
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Another one of those strange questions and answers. The first type of steam ship which was given credit for circumnavigation of the globe was HMS Driver a royal navy paddle driven "sloop" . There seems to be a blurred line between sloops and frigates and sometimes only the number of gun decks was the difference. However according to all the references I could find one of the options in the answers should have been sloop.
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4 months ago by 🇬🇧 SimpleSailor ( Warrant Officer)
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Well another interesting answer. I was going to tick Phoenicians but couldn't find anything that would convince me they started the first organised navy. They were a great maritime force but not a united fighting force. However the Romans did organise a navy because they could see it would help conquer the world as it was then. As they say "You live and learn" 😀
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4 months ago by 🇬🇧 SimpleSailor ( Warrant Officer)
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Well after reading up about all of the people in the options I ruled out Sir William Petty but should have realised it was him as he had an interest in naval architecture. Samuel Pepys was in the British admiralty so I chose him. Interesting thing is Samuel Pepys and Sir William Petty knew each other. John Harrison invented the marine chronometer and Sir Francis Drake was a privateer. I like questions like this because it increases your knowledge while doing the investigation work 😀
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4 months ago by 🇬🇧 SimpleSailor ( Warrant Officer)
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Here we go again. I was going to click Sloop so why did I click cutter? Old age I think 😀. Anyway a cutter generally has the mast set further back than a sloop so maybe that is why.
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4 months ago by 🇬🇧 SimpleSailor ( Warrant Officer)
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Here I was pondering on the answer for a while because I thought it was a trick question 😂
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4 months ago by 🇬🇧 SimpleSailor ( Warrant Officer)
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Wow! No longer a case of déjà vu, more like ground hog days.😂😂😂
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4 months ago by 🇬🇧 SimpleSailor ( Warrant Officer)
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Oh my. I have a terrible feeling of déjà vu 😂
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4 months ago by 🇬🇧 SimpleSailor ( Warrant Officer)
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Ok. I will get back on board, but you might need to whistle me aboard even if I am just a Chief Petty Officer 😂😂😂😂👍
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4 months ago by 🇬🇧 SimpleSailor ( Warrant Officer)
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Well you learn something new every day. My dad who was in the RAF always told me that SOS was "Save Our Souls" so I have never questioned it, but I suppose they had to put some meaning to it. So as the questions and and answers are getting questionable and my average over the past few months has dropped from 93% to now 69% I am thinking of giving up. 😉
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