Join Us On Social Media!
|
|
|
Download The App!
Login To
Remove Ads
Remove Ads
Login To
Remove Ads
Remove Ads
Model Boats Website
Captain)
Liked Back to the Wiesel! 4 days ago
Liked Back to the Wiesel! 4 days ago
Liked 2. Reine des Vents 5 days ago
Liked Question of the Day? 6 days ago
Liked Modified Stiletto project, another motor change. 7 days ago
Liked White stuff on tool handles 8 days ago
United Kingdom
Recent Posts
📝 Question of the Day?
5 days ago by 🇬🇧 SimpleSailor (
Warrant Officer)
Warrant Officer)✧ 55 Views · 2 Likes
Flag
📝 Reply
Interesting this one. The answer could easily have been a Sloop-of-war as it was the first type of ship he commanded. However the one he scuttled was a frigate. Some interesting reading form the Royal Museums Greenwich.
▲
⟩⟩
Peejay
hermank
Login To
Remove Ads
Remove Ads
📝 Question of the Day?
7 days ago by 🇬🇧 SimpleSailor ( Warrant Officer)
Warrant Officer)✧ 43 Views · 2 Likes
Flag
📝 Reply
Very strange question today. I got it right by sheer luck. I always thought it was called the "Poop Deck" but then it realised it said "raised platform" and not deck. I don't think Sir Francis Drake had a swim platform.🤣
▲
⟩⟩
xtramaths
hermank
📝 Question of the Day?
8 days ago by 🇬🇧 SimpleSailor ( Warrant Officer)
Warrant Officer)✧ 47 Views · 4 Likes
Flag
📝 Reply
Although I got this one correct. It's only because we have had the same conversation when it first appeared as a question. However when you look at the question it does ask for the "highest point" on a ship or boat. The mast is not the highest point, the "top" of the mast is the highest point and that wasn't an option in the answers. Most look out points/crows nests have spars above them and sometimes a "topgallant" so even the crows nest is not right. I still think the AI needs to get back to school. 😂
▲
⟩⟩
Commodore-H
DuncanP
DWBrinkman
hermank
📝 Question of the Day?
14 days ago by 🇬🇧 SimpleSailor ( Warrant Officer)
Warrant Officer)✧ 46 Views · 1 Like
Flag
📝 Reply
Hi Xtramaths. It could be declination as variation and declination are the same thing in mapping terms. I got it wrong because I don't think the actual answer is on offer. I wouldn't call the angle between the ships compass direction/course and magnetic north a "magnetic variation" because the angle I would be sailing has to take into account the variation . Not a well worded question again.😁 Plus while replying I just remembered that "Magnetic Deviation" is the affect items in the boat have on the compass reading. Hence they had to be adjusted for each boat when installed.
▲
⟩⟩
Nickthesteam
📝 Question of the Day?
14 days ago by 🇬🇧 SimpleSailor ( Warrant Officer)
Warrant Officer)✧ 37 Views · 0 Likes
Flag
📝 Reply
Hi Roy. Don't get me wrong. I enjoy taking part, I just don't like things that don't work correctly. My engineering background has a lot to do with it.🤣. I will plod on.
▲
⟩⟩
No likes yet
This member will receive 1 point
for every like received
This member will receive 1 point
for every like received
📝 Question of the Day?
14 days ago by 🇬🇧 SimpleSailor ( Warrant Officer)
Warrant Officer)✧ 32 Views · 1 Like
Flag
📝 Reply
Well well well. When I logged in today I was once again at 93% after being at 94% yesterday. When I get an answer correct it goes up by 1%. Get it wrong it drops by 3%. After getting todays question wrong it has certainly dropped 3%.
▲
⟩⟩
DuncanP
📝 Question of the Day?
15 days ago by 🇬🇧 SimpleSailor ( Warrant Officer)
Warrant Officer)✧ 42 Views · 1 Like
Flag
📝 Reply
Another anomaly. Yesterday I was at 94% this morning I log in, I am at 93%. I answer the question correctly and it goes to 94%. Is it rounding the 3.3333333 up or down as it feels like it? 🤣 This has happened two days running.
▲
⟩⟩
hermank
💬 Re: What is this boat?
16 days ago by 🇬🇧 SimpleSailor ( Warrant Officer)
Warrant Officer)✧ 141 Views · 4 Likes
Flag
💬 Add Comment
Thanks cheddarman. Looks like the same boat, has the same name but in the link it is in Agios Nikolaos Crete which is just round the coast from Elounda. It is definitely a Turkish Gulet.
▲
⟩⟩
hermank
AlessandroSPQR
Peejay
Len1
📝 Question of the Day?
16 days ago by 🇬🇧 SimpleSailor ( Warrant Officer)
Warrant Officer)✧ 45 Views · 1 Like
Flag
📝 Reply
Thanks Roy. I understand that as it has been explained many times, it just doesn't make sense. I might start recording on a spread sheet and see if I get the same answers 😂
▲
⟩⟩
hermank
📝 What is this boat?
16 days ago by 🇬🇧 SimpleSailor ( Warrant Officer)
Warrant Officer)✧ 148 Views · 16 Likes · 4 Comments
Flag
💬 Add Comment
Has anyone seen a model or plans for a boat like the one I found on holiday. I was in Elounda Crete when I came across this and thought what a lovely model it would make.
▲
⟩⟩
chugalone100
AlessandroSPQR
RobW1
xtramaths
Ray
RogerA1
Peejay
Isaac
Len1
Mike Stoney
EdW
Scamp
jumpugly
Nickthesteam
hermank
GaryLC
📝 Question of the Day?
16 days ago by 🇬🇧 SimpleSailor ( Warrant Officer)
Warrant Officer)✧ 44 Views · 1 Like
Flag
📝 Reply
This averaging % is doing my head in 😂. Yesterday I logged in and got the question right. I was at 94%. Today I log in and it's at 93%. I get the answer right and it goes back to 94%. Is the AI algorithm still learning maths?
▲
⟩⟩
hermank
Login To
Remove Ads
Remove Ads
📝 Question of the Day?
22 days ago by 🇬🇧 SimpleSailor ( Warrant Officer)
Warrant Officer)✧ 57 Views · 3 Likes
Flag
📝 Reply
I thought it was a trick question. Nearly put the Bismarck.🤣
▲
⟩⟩
hermank
luckyduck
Nickthesteam
📝 Question of the Day?
1 month ago by 🇬🇧 SimpleSailor ( Warrant Officer)
Warrant Officer)✧ 60 Views · 5 Likes
Flag
📝 Reply
Again this is getting ridiculous. I don't mind getting penalized for a wrong answer, but when the AI is completely wrong in its choice of answer I think we should be awarded compensation points. Who is the referee for the question page?
▲
⟩⟩
hermank
DuncanP
xtramaths
DWBrinkman
AndyN
📝 Question of the Day?
1 month ago by 🇬🇧 SimpleSailor ( Warrant Officer)
Warrant Officer)✧ 50 Views · 6 Likes
Flag
📝 Reply
Well the AI has that wrong. This is from the Royal Yachting Association.
▲
⟩⟩
Rookysailor
MouldBuilder
DuncanP
luckyduck
RossM
AndyN
📝 Question of the Day?
1 month ago by 🇬🇧 SimpleSailor ( Warrant Officer)
Warrant Officer)✧ 37 Views · 1 Like
Flag
📝 Reply
Another dumb question. As already mentioned by Ross you have to assume you are standing on the boat looking forward.
▲
⟩⟩
hermank
📝 Question of the Day?
2 months ago by 🇬🇧 SimpleSailor ( Warrant Officer)
Warrant Officer)✧ 49 Views · 1 Like
Flag
📝 Reply
Darn it. Got my geography mixed up. I chose Dora misreading it for the Douro which of course flows into the Atlantic through Porto and is only 897 km long while the Tagus is 1,007 km long. Learn something new every day. 😀
▲
⟩⟩
xtramaths
💬 Re: WINCH MOTORS
2 months ago by 🇬🇧 SimpleSailor ( Warrant Officer)
Warrant Officer)✧ 52 Views · 3 Likes
Flag
💬 Add Comment
Thanks Ross👍
▲
⟩⟩
Len1
AlessandroSPQR
RossM
💬 Re: winches
2 months ago by 🇬🇧 SimpleSailor ( Warrant Officer)
Warrant Officer)✧ 52 Views · 3 Likes
Flag
💬 Add Comment
They look like worm gear winches/drives. Where do you get those from?
▲
⟩⟩
AlessandroSPQR
Mike Stoney
Peejay
📝 Question of the Day?
2 months ago by 🇬🇧 SimpleSailor ( Warrant Officer)
Warrant Officer)✧ 36 Views · 0 Likes
Flag
📝 Reply
I have that old feeling of déjà vu again. 😀
▲
⟩⟩
No likes yet
This member will receive 1 point
for every like received
This member will receive 1 point
for every like received
📝 Question of the Day?
2 months ago by 🇬🇧 SimpleSailor ( Warrant Officer)
Warrant Officer)✧ 50 Views · 3 Likes
Flag
📝 Reply
So, now we have a comedian writing the questions 😀
▲
⟩⟩
RNinMunich
hermank
Nickthesteam
📝 Question of the Day?
2 months ago by 🇬🇧 SimpleSailor ( Warrant Officer)
Warrant Officer)✧ 50 Views · 3 Likes
Flag
📝 Reply
Well I guess the Americans got this wrong when they called John Barry the father of the American navy.
▲
⟩⟩
Mike Stoney
hermank
BOATSHED
Login To
Remove Ads
Remove Ads
📝 Question of the Day?
2 months ago by 🇬🇧 SimpleSailor ( Warrant Officer)
Warrant Officer)✧ 51 Views · 2 Likes
Flag
📝 Reply
Definitely had this question before😀
▲
⟩⟩
Mike Stoney
RNinMunich
💬 Re: SERVOS
2 months ago by 🇬🇧 SimpleSailor ( Warrant Officer)
Warrant Officer)✧ 56 Views · 6 Likes
Flag
💬 Add Comment
Hi Ross. An interesting method of controlling the winches. Very old school but probably very reliable.👍
▲
⟩⟩
Len1
hermank
Mike Stoney
Peejay
AlessandroSPQR
RossM
📝 Question of the Day?
2 months ago by 🇬🇧 SimpleSailor ( Warrant Officer)
Warrant Officer)✧ 38 Views · 2 Likes
Flag
📝 Reply
I had to think about this one but got it right ⛵😊
▲
⟩⟩
Nickthesteam
roycv
📝 Question of the Day?
3 months ago by 🇬🇧 SimpleSailor ( Warrant Officer)
Warrant Officer)✧ 52 Views · 1 Like
Flag
📝 Reply
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.🤣
▲
⟩⟩
BOATSHED
📝 Question of the Day?
3 months ago by 🇬🇧 SimpleSailor ( Warrant Officer)
Warrant Officer)✧ 52 Views · 0 Likes
Flag
📝 Reply
Hi Roycv.
I get it now. Thanks for the explanation.👍
I get it now. Thanks for the explanation.👍
▲
⟩⟩
No likes yet
This member will receive 1 point
for every like received
This member will receive 1 point
for every like received
💬 Re: Modified Stiletto project
3 months ago by 🇬🇧 SimpleSailor ( Warrant Officer)
Warrant Officer)✧ 88 Views · 6 Likes
Flag
💬 Add Comment
That is looking very nice.
▲
⟩⟩
Razor1955
hermank
Peejay
Len1
jbkiwi
stevedownunder
📝 Question of the Day?
3 months ago by 🇬🇧 SimpleSailor ( Warrant Officer)
Warrant Officer)✧ 33 Views · 1 Like
Flag
📝 Reply
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%??😀
▲
⟩⟩
DuncanP
📝 Question of the Day?
3 months ago by 🇬🇧 SimpleSailor ( Warrant Officer)
Warrant Officer)✧ 55 Views · 4 Likes
Flag
📝 Reply
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.
▲
⟩⟩
hermank
DWBrinkman
RNinMunich
Wez
📝 Question of the Day?
3 months ago by 🇬🇧 SimpleSailor ( Warrant Officer)
Warrant Officer)✧ 55 Views · 5 Likes
Flag
📝 Reply
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. 🤣
▲
⟩⟩
Cashrc
hermank
Peter47
xtramaths
AndyN
Login To
Remove Ads
Remove Ads
