Summer Cruise

[Ian Wright]

Up the UK east coast, down through the Caledonian Canal, cruise the West coast of Scotland, round Cape Wrath, visit Scapa Flow and so down the East coast again and home: see you towards the end of August...

Da-dit-dah

IanW

[Venchka]

Fair winds!

You realize most of us are totally envious, what? :D

[Hwyl]

Originally posted by Ian Wright:
Up the UK east coast, down through the Caledonian Canal, cruise the West coast of Scotland, round Cape Wrath, visit Scapa Flow and so down the East coast again and home: see you towards the end of August...

Da-dit-dah

You seem to be going to great lengths to avoid Wales.

Didn't you mean dit dah dah dit

[ 04-24-2004, 02:32 PM: Message edited by: Hwyl ]

[Steve Lansdowne]

I hope you don't have to dit-dit-dit-dah-dah-dah-dit-dit-dit!

[sawcutmill]

Dot,Dot,Dot, Dash,Dash,Dash, Dot,Dot,Dot! is S.O.S, dont go there!

[NormMessinger]

'... is S.O.S,...." Doesn't everyone know that? tongue.gif

Ah, but do you know di dah dah di dah ?

FAIR WINDS Ian Will you be sailing in company with others?

[Hwyl]

Originally posted by NormMessinger:
'...

Ah, but do you know di dah dah di dah ?

No??? Is it AK EQ or WA or do you up in the sky guys know more than us ancient interface guys?

[ 04-27-2004, 09:16 PM: Message edited by: Hwyl ]

[Matt J.]

Morse code aside, fair winds, Ian of the Right. That sounds like a fantastic cruise.

[NormMessinger]

I wouldn't know one VOR from another if they didn't write the code out on the sectionals. I just happened to see an article in Ocean Navigator reporting that the governing body that deals with morse code recently came up with AC run togeather as the code for the @ sign used in email addresses.

[Hwyl]

Thanks Norm' I'm studying for my six pack (OUPV) and keep running into arcane things which the Coast Guard expects you to know but which I've never run into (pun intended) I thought you'd introduced me to anther one.

[Paul Scheuer]

AK ?

[Hwyl]

AC would be dit dah dah dit dah dit

[Paul Scheuer]

Well, this is the worst case of thread drift I've ever been a part of.

Ian starts out with a description of a wonderful cruise through strange lands with strange sounding names, and we end up talking about Norm's missing dit. :D

Don't forget the camera, Ian. (envy gremlin).

[NormMessinger]

I figure Ian is happily esconsed aboard Patience so his thread is fair game. Serves him right. Now as to the Morris code, the only sequence I thought I remembered is C Q , dah di dah dah dah di dah. Could I really be ditless? Oh yes I could. redface.gif I better stick to picking my nose.

[ 04-28-2004, 07:19 AM: Message edited by: NormMessinger ]

[Andrew Craig-Bennett]

I have to report a sighting of Ian Wright, this evening.

He came to tea, accompanied by Rob Williamson (who singlehands his Bermudian Vertue, "Maid of Tesa", often in company with "Patience") to return Mirelle's set of Blake spanners and spares, and to present a very fine bottle of Glenfiddich and an even finer canvas bucket, with finely wrought lanyard, as a thank you.

They drank their tea, complained of northerly winds, observed that on their trip to Ireland and back a few years ago they covered 2,080 miles all but 40 of which were to windward, and departed, bearing a copy of the RCC Journal for 1938, to be read in the event of further contrary winds.

[Mrleft8]

The Jolly sailor is going to lose money on this trip....