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Forum: Plumbing Systems and Fixtures 13-09-2012, 08:41
Replies: 15
Views: 3,820
Posted By ChannelIslander
Re: Anyone Have Plastic Water Tanks ?

Just a word of warning regarding the inspection ports, and plastic tanks in general.

When you fill them up, they will expand and swell. Mine actually lift off the wooden boards under the seat...
Forum: Seamanship & Boat Handling 25-01-2012, 09:12
Replies: 1,326
Views: 211,135
Posted By ChannelIslander
re: Cruise Ship Costa Concordia - MERGED THREADS

That's nonsense, David. There are already more than one bridge officer on the bridge at any one time. It's a simple call-and-response system. Just like you've seen in the movies, or on Star Trek....
Forum: Seamanship & Boat Handling 24-01-2012, 22:52
Replies: 1,326
Views: 211,135
Posted By ChannelIslander
re: Cruise Ship Costa Concordia - MERGED THREADS

Yeah, I was thinking that the bridge should be more like a navy command with two people having to agree on each action before it is taken.
Forum: Seamanship & Boat Handling 24-01-2012, 09:24
Replies: 1,326
Views: 211,135
Posted By ChannelIslander
Have read in several posts here of the mutiny,...

Have read in several posts here of the mutiny, that all bridge officers bar one turned against Schettino. Hunch about that being why they were in a lifeboat.
Forum: OpenCPN 24-01-2012, 07:09
Replies: 63
Views: 11,693
Posted By ChannelIslander
Just agreeing with Pjotr.....

Just agreeing with Pjotr.....
Forum: Seamanship & Boat Handling 24-01-2012, 06:24
Replies: 1,326
Views: 211,135
Posted By ChannelIslander
re: Cruise Ship Costa Concordia - MERGED THREADS

It now seems apparent to me that the captain and his first officer were ordered off the bridge by the "mutineers" and that's why they were in a lifeboat together and that's why he was making up...
Forum: Seamanship & Boat Handling 23-01-2012, 10:41
Replies: 1,326
Views: 211,135
Posted By ChannelIslander
re: Cruise Ship Costa Concordia - MERGED THREADS

Nigel, I very much enjoy hearing you share your knowledge about how large ships work. Thanks!

I'd like to know more about how you couple and uncouple engines onto a single drive shaft . . . ?
Forum: OpenCPN 23-01-2012, 09:33
Replies: 63
Views: 11,693
Posted By ChannelIslander
Re: How Do I Overlay DSC Waypoints / Track Buddy

I second all that. Would like to be able to interface DSC position info with OCPN.

Thx

- nick
Forum: Seamanship & Boat Handling 23-01-2012, 09:22
Replies: 1,326
Views: 211,135
Posted By ChannelIslander
re: Cruise Ship Costa Concordia - MERGED THREADS

Wrong! It puts the news from Italy in context, i.e., this is not an isolated incident but rather attention needs to be paid to safety procedures on cruise ships.
Forum: Seamanship & Boat Handling 23-01-2012, 09:17
Replies: 1,326
Views: 211,135
Posted By ChannelIslander
re: Cruise Ship Costa Concordia - MERGED THREADS

Unless you believe that running aground in a cruise ship is to be expected when your buy your ticket, I'd say that's news.

Personally, when I buy a ticket on a commercial passenger ship, I don't...
Forum: Seamanship & Boat Handling 23-01-2012, 08:35
Replies: 1,326
Views: 211,135
Posted By ChannelIslander
re: Cruise Ship Costa Concordia - MERGED THREADS

Must have been a Italian test seeing as how he was witnessed sharing an entire bottle of wine with the Moldovan girl, and one witness at least described the last drops of the bottle being poured into...
Forum: Navigation 23-01-2012, 07:53
Replies: 7
Views: 3,882
Posted By ChannelIslander
Re: permanent set-up for USB GPS puck

In my experience you don't need the GPS puck outdoors on the rail. I use a USB GPS puck antenna inside, connected to the laptop, and don't have any reception problems.

You might try your unit...
Forum: General Sailing Forum 22-01-2012, 20:07
Replies: 140
Views: 51,200
Posted By ChannelIslander
Re: Anchoring Jerks

Stu, is that you from C36/34IA?
Forum: Crew Archives 22-01-2012, 11:10
Replies: 39
Crew Wanted: Delivery Capt Needed
Views: 5,985
Posted By ChannelIslander
Re: Delivery Capt Needed

OP did mention Africa's Cape Horn .... blind leading the blind?

:cool:~~~:cool:
Forum: Navigation 21-01-2012, 15:58
Replies: 13
Views: 2,915
Posted By ChannelIslander
Re: AIS for iPhone?

Hi DennisSail,

In the schematic the "NMEA device" is any other device you may have that reads NMEA, like maybe an autopilot, chartplotter, multiplexer, etc. It's optional.

The AIS receiver...
Forum: Crew Archives 21-01-2012, 07:42
Replies: 39
Crew Wanted: Delivery Capt Needed
Views: 5,985
Posted By ChannelIslander
Re: delivery capt needed

My dog and I will deliver your boat for $200 a day, plus Kibbles. We don't have any qualifications or experience, either.
Forum: Marine Electronics 20-01-2012, 07:32
Replies: 21
Views: 17,854
Posted By ChannelIslander
Re: AIS antenna splitter

Hi guys

i called Glomex in Italy and then got an email response:



I have asked for more exactitude. But the unit does have a pre-amplifier, as does the Vesper.

Thanks,
Forum: Marine Electronics 19-01-2012, 11:43
Replies: 21
Views: 17,854
Posted By ChannelIslander
AIS Antenna Splitter

Hi friends

I am planning to install a VHF antenna splitter to be able to receive AIS signals and VHF traffic simultaneously from my existing antenna.

Any recommendations?

Has anyone any...
Forum: Navigation 19-01-2012, 09:19
Replies: 13
Views: 2,915
Posted By ChannelIslander
Re: AIS for iPhone?

This model requires its own power supply connection . . . there's one from West Marine that gets its power via USB from the PC .......
Forum: Navigation 19-01-2012, 09:13
Replies: 13
Views: 2,915
Posted By ChannelIslander
Re: AIS for iPhone?

marinetraffic.com is an excellent site/organization. You don't need their app for your iPhone; you can connect to their website for free in your phone's browser. I've been using it for a while and...
Forum: Deck hardware: Rigging, Sails & Hoisting 19-01-2012, 09:03
Replies: 39
Views: 11,184
Posted By ChannelIslander
Re: Davit falls

The pointy end of your dink is likely to be quite a bit lighter than the motorized end. Thus the lifting power required at each end will be different. Also, it's nice to be able to lift the pointy...
Forum: Marine Electronics 17-01-2012, 22:27
Replies: 18
Views: 3,931
Posted By ChannelIslander
Re: Autopilot losing it's way!

If the fluxgate compass erroneously perceives that the boat has made a course change, because the compass has been affected by a metallic object, or has moved in relation to the boat, it will try to...
Forum: Cooking and Provisioning: Food & Drink 17-01-2012, 06:56
Replies: 10
Views: 1,939
Posted By ChannelIslander
Re: U.S. Food inflation

And legal fees/settlement funds for the bacterial food-poisoning outbreaks that occur regularly on Monaco -sized "farms" . . .
Forum: Powered Boats 15-01-2012, 08:18
Replies: 15
Views: 7,347
Posted By ChannelIslander
Re: Starting a charter in QLD Australia

I ran a "six-pack" charter business for five or six years, taking tourists out to our local islands on a 30' Seasport Pilot (nice, cozy, rugged, small motor yacht, not really like a Bayliner Ciera,...
Forum: OpenCPN 12-01-2012, 22:48
Replies: 392
Views: 103,475
Posted By ChannelIslander
Re: Android Development Underway

Will, I'm wondering whether MXMariner is tied to the OpenCPN development cycle? Or is it all completely separate codebase at this point?

I have OCPN on the Macbook, would like to have its closest...
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