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Title: Wishlist
#11
Yes we have to be able to use all different sorts of 'navaids', including sometimes things like hearing gulls cries echoing from the cliffs in fog.

You do hear some quite humorous 'measurements' here sometimes like "It can't be more than a Hurling pitch away..."
Officially that's somewhere between 130 and 145 metres.

But, not sure I like the idea of the paperless ship. Bit the like paperless office. Lets hope they don't use MSWindows!

I can't see anyone continuing, long term, the use of cables, although the term sounds a bit archaic it's just decimal miles, which sounds a lot more modern.
Wish I could find the relevant book, but it does seem as if less than half a mile is given in metres over here.
Actually I'd like to switch between the two as distance traveled on the gps display is in decimal miles, so reading the sailing directions (say) and having to add 400 metres is a bit confusing.

Ron
 
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