View Poll Results: What was your score?
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44 %100 smarty pants
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4.42% |
38-43
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19.89% |
30-38
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99 |
54.70% |
20-30
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18.78% |
0-20
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2.21% |
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11-12-2009, 09:12
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#61
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Annapolis, Bahamas
Boat: 1983 Gulfstar 36
Posts: 1,253
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Yikes! 34. I think I should buy some land in Iowa after that beating.
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11-12-2009, 09:31
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#62
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Senior Cruiser
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Coos Bay, Oregon
Boat: Valiant 40 (1975)
Posts: 4,073
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Maybe we should make up a real sailors test with questions that reflect real sailing situations...Such as
1. You are on a mooring in the PNW. The average tide is 3 meters and your depth is 60 feet. Should you be concerned about a freighter blasting his horn at a day sailor and turning your direction a mile away?
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11-12-2009, 10:22
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#63
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Rowayton, Ct.
Boat: Cambria 46, Starlight
Posts: 139
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34...I thought I was better than that.
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11-12-2009, 17:24
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#64
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2006
Boat: Looking for a new boat
Posts: 2,571
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Quote:
Originally Posted by s/v Beth
Maybe we should make up a real sailors test with questions that reflect real sailing situations...Such as
1. You are on a mooring in the PNW. The average tide is 3 meters and your depth is 60 feet. Should you be concerned about a freighter blasting his horn at a day sailor and turning your direction a mile away?
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Better yet
2.You have a thousand dollars to go towards your new hobby boating. It will get you...
a.)didly squat
b.)zilch
c.)nada
d.)all of the above
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11-12-2009, 17:37
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#65
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Calgary, AB, Canada
Posts: 6,252
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A boat is
a) a hole in the water into which you throw money
b) an acronym for "Bring Out Another Thousand"
c) the subject of the happiest two days of your life
d) all of the above
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11-12-2009, 20:48
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#66
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2003
Boat: Dragonfly 1000 trimaran
Posts: 7,264
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35.
Not proud of it, but it brings back memories of my HAM test.
This was the actual question. I almost fell off my chair when I read it.
"How many questions were in the first part of this test?"
Really. WHAT KIND OF FULL OF YOUR BEAUREAUCRATIC SELF IS THAT ??
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11-12-2009, 21:42
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#67
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Honolulu
Boat: S2 11.0C 36' Puka Wai
Posts: 157
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34. I must be pretty good at guessing - I've never seen anybody use day shapes out here and if I see a warehouse where it's not supposed to be its the inter-island barge so stay away cus they haul ass...
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11-12-2009, 23:02
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#68
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CF Adviser
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: sausalito
Boat: 14 meter sloop
Posts: 7,260
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agreed. Not only have I never seen anyone fly an inverted cone while motorsailing, and not only do I not own such a cone should I want to hoist one, but I've never seen one for sail in a chandlery.
And as far as those three balls you're supposed to fly when you go aground, who is kidding whom?
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12-12-2009, 07:11
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#69
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Onboard
Boat: Pearson 323
Posts: 84
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33 on test. I knew the right answers only after I screwed up on the wording of the questions. Anyway, docking makes no difference to me. My engine will run great. Idle fine, go in and out of forward, neutral, and reverse forever without any problems until I am approaching the dock. Then, it stalls!
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12-12-2009, 10:12
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#70
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2006
Boat: Looking for a new boat
Posts: 2,571
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You think these questions are archaic and weird try taking the piloting section of a captains course. So strange yet strangely very useful.
It definitely makes you feel like the general boating populous is getting dummer. It makes me realize that I have grown up in a different time. God bless GPS.
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13-12-2009, 12:25
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#71
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Nicholasville, Kentucky
Boat: 15 foot Canoe
Posts: 14,191
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Another poll could ask, "Do you think passing this exam reflects a cruisers real knowledge?"
Got a 35 but if the questions were worded a bit better I would have done better.
regards,
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13-12-2009, 15:10
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#72
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Christchurch, New Zealand
Posts: 5
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Cheers unbusted67
I have bookmarked this, about to head out, but looking forward to participating when i get home.
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13-12-2009, 20:29
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#73
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: CIH, CA temporarily
Boat: Roberts Offshore 44-Blue Note
Posts: 43
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33
I do have both cone and ball dayshapes aboard. I have shown the inverted cone while motorsailing amongst commercial fishermen especially when they are not showing a gear out dayshape (double cone, apexes connected).
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13-12-2009, 20:40
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#74
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Wash DC
Boat: PETERSON 44
Posts: 3,165
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I think day shapes are obsolete. If there are balls hanging from the spreaders they signify a castration. I'm not proud that I blantly defy this regulation I do though and don't plan to change my ways. I have the winter to reconsider. Mostly my rulesof the road are your an idiot so I stear clear.
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13-12-2009, 21:05
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#75
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: CIH, CA temporarily
Boat: Roberts Offshore 44-Blue Note
Posts: 43
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They aren't obsolete in case of a collision. If they apply, you would be well advised to show them if you are hit. Same with radar. If you have one, it had better be on if you are involved in a collision, regardless of conditions.
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