Don’t think I’m quite ready to do my own compass corrections, but it was interesting to see. We get so dependent on things like GPS without understanding what’s behind navigation. I found that very interesting.
Yes, it is very easy to get dependent on GPS, and the truth is it works so well that with backup systems we are almost never required to use a paper chart anymore. I guess this is the reason I like to get them out periodically because if you don't use it you lose it. Plus, I do love them, there is something quite romantic about paper charts. :)
@@benmac940 You can always rely on a pedant to chime in. I believe he covered basic compass correction on navigation charts fairly well however if you are referring to compass calibration you might have a pedantic point but you didn't - so there's that!
@@zorbalight3933 no I mean compass correction. Ie the process of adding and moving magnets around the binnacle. For the basics of chart work yes it has been covered ok. But there is one hell of a lot more to chart work than that. When I did it for my last ticket we spent a number of weeks on it.
@@benmac940 I think you miss-understood the guy. He's saying that he isn't ready to do the conversion from true to compass yet himself, but was happy with the info he got here.
I grew up in CQ and spent a lot of time on Great Keppel in my youth. The place has changed so much since those days. Spent a very pleasant long weekend there once in my late teens teaching naval cadets wireless technique and how to navigate on land, I was an army cadet so was an "expert". Those Naval cadets might have been good on the water but most of them couldn't walk between two trees without getting lost. I got to sleep indoors, in a bunk, and got 3 squares a day, it was a far cry from the usual hutchie, sleeping bag, and rat packs, absolute bliss. :)
@@DangarMarine I will admit to getting chewed out by my unit commander for "supporting the enemy" when they found out but it was a lot of fun. Even got to go sailing in one of their skiffs. Re maps and charts, trying to understand naval charts gives me a migraine while army ord maps seem to make perfect sense, I suppose it's about what you're used to and were trained on.
Nice to watch as usual. I'm reminded of when I started sailing as a 3rd mate going around the world, crossing the Pacific with only 1 radar, 1 gyro and a sextant. I really miss those times! One remark though: deviation is (mainly steel-) ship specific and you actually can determine it yourself by swinging your vessel 360 degrees around while taking bearings of a certain landmark while simultaneously taking bearings on a gyro connected radar (or simply compare gyro to compass headings). So that would be a 2 person job. Or you could use leading lights for the bearing provided you can remain on that specific line. Then it is just a matter of making a table TVMDC where you just calculate column D. Deviation usually doesn't change much over time unless you do a lot of welding, hammering and adding structures to the vessel but luckily you (Stu) never seem to do that 👍
A winch is only for winching , setting and retrieving the anchor. I can see a new video coming soon "replacing stripped winch gears" I would use a cleat and a springer or bridle, that spectra / dyneema although incredibly strong has no give, thanks for the vid
Thanks Stu, Only last week I introduced Year 10 Brisbane girls to ATMS on SOUTH PASSAGE (Queensland's Tall Ship) ATMS - True to magnetic = Subtract. Magnetic to true = Add. Write ATMS up when you get to the chart. With a greasy Chinagraph pencil on the acrilyc cover, that you can wipe off afterwards. Then on Monday, on an Excemption 38 course, we were asked - have you been on a ship while the compass was swung? Yes. With GPS, lots of old-school skills may be lost from the Master 4-Master 1 grade areas. But Stu, great to see old-school skills being exhibited. Tony
Thanks for the refresher course in paper chart plotting 👌👍👍, it’s been 15 years since my captains course and that little bit just happened to bring a lot of that knowledge back to me 😎⚓️⚓️🥃
That was a very educational session Stu!! I very much like the changes from Northern to Southern Hemisphere! I wasn't into navigation when i lived there...a bit too young! LOL Love this refresher training on charting!! awesome!
Great update. It struck me, as I was watching this episode unfold, that I remember when you got Renko oh so long ago and all the things you said you wanted to do with her and it seemed like the circle had completed itself and here was just the kind adventure you had an inkling of, with everything shipshape and kitted out as you could want it ... and I was really REALLY happy for you in that moment.
In aviation (before GPS Nav) we pilots had to to do the EXACT same calculations to determine our compass course. Our nemonic was the same “True Virgins Make Dull Company”. The parallels between boating and aviation are numerous including terminology. Thanks, Stu, for the refresher course.
Another awesome effort Stu. Love how you show the amazing sunsets and the wind and rain to give us the real image of a journey such as your undertaking. I’m thoroughly enjoying the seamanship components of your videos at the moment. Great work.
I completed the coxswain course during my time in the usmc, we drove the combat rubber raiding crafts or crrc, learned the basics of maritime nav which I really enjoyed. They had a separate course for maritime nav which our officers took.
These days, helicopters take off that way. Change to flight rules. Must be safer. Been that way for a couple of years. Love my GPS. Has my charts and used them at first to have them for back up. Great lesson Stu. 👍
Hmm, yes and no. It is the tropics with a wet season, cyclones, dangerous sea creatures like crocodiles, sharks, and stingers, mosquitoes, sandflies. While swatting sandflies when sitting on the beach (no swimming) you have to be alert for coconuts falling on your head, haha.
Thanks Stu ,there's nothing like anchoring in some wild weather whilst wild wind waves wash white water well over the deck. And aren't you glad you spent the extra five dollars on buying the quality blue tarp instead of those cheep ones ,I couldn't believe it held ,maybe you could bring them on as a sponsor ,Cheers mate.
Good lesson in navigation basics and I believe an essential part of any skippers skill set. There is too much reliance on electronics by boatowners today.I remember an incident twenty years ago when a guy on a 42 foot motor yacht in the Kyles of Bute asked me for directions back to the Kip marina because he had no idea as his electronics circuit had failed. He did not have a paper chart onboard.I gave him a short lesson in plotting on my chart and he was relieved to find it was not that difficult if you knew the basics, he promised to go to school at the nautical college that year. He was going to call the coast guard before speaking to me but I pointed out that he would have been bawled at by them and laughed at by everyone listening in. I was going in his direction on my return to my mooring so I escorted him back to Kip Marina ,never saw the boat again so I do not know if he continued with his boating .
Great content Stu love your work. It's real cool how you can work out compass variation, find old coins and all that, but theres an awfull lot of fishing rods on that boat and not a whole lot of fish extracting themselves from the wet stuff. You travel at perfect trolling speed, grab a couple of halco hard bodies and hang them out while your underway. 3+ meters will turn up the goods with a bit of persistance 👍
Downwind leg of the circuit to set the plane up for landing is unrepeatable on here but the symbols are B. U. M. F. T. H. Usually it's Brakes, Undercarriage, Master mixture mags, Flaps fuel, Trim, Height heat or alternate air. We were told the best way to remember so we'd never forget as an act that is illegal in some states and intrinsically misogynistic with one letter kept as an H where it should be a W in reality. It's true I never will forget it.
@@ThePaulv12 Much the same as the Mnemonic I was taught for resistor colour coding many years ago........ entirely unrepeatable here too on similar grounds. Probably get a ban from the Google Gods if I did........ lol.
Loved this, some of the old chart-work basics I already have were brusshed off and I learnt a few things about marine charts I certainly didn't know, lovong your cruising and practical lessons with the charts
Hey Danger Stu, been watching since your first vids, love seeing the progression of not just your channel but what your channel has allowed you to do. Look forward to if our paths cross on the water, will have a few cold Coopers ready for you, no old 20c pieces required.
This is so awesome to watch.. All the hard work pays off and we get to see it... Do some fishing..... You deserve to chuck a line and sit down with a cooler full of coopers and take it all in.... Catch and cook video...!
That brought back memories of studying for my masters/pilotage. Funny, we have the same acronyms in the U.S. Electronics spoil us, but I've always enjoyed navigation on paper charts. I always have a backup set. Thanks for the flashback.
Hi Stew, you should look into beachmaster wheels for dinghy, I just put a set on my maxxon inflatable and they are an awesome and tough piece of kit, not too expensive and all kiwi made.
@@DangarMarine Hi Stu, I have a removable set on my SIB. make sure you can get good clearance to the hull( i needed spacers) but they are absolutely brilliant and worth the extra over the many steel tube versions
Wow, I'm impressed. I went through Navigation school in USN about 45 years ago... must have forgot a bit more than I thought. Didn't learn about Navigation Down Under, though. Just basics.
Another great video Stu all that hard work you have done on the boat is finally paying off I am guessing Vicky doesn't like being in front of the camera that is ok I dont either keep the videos coming love watching them.
@@DangarMarine That sounds great another boat I would guess I myself have spent the last 10 years on my own boat hope to have her ready soon and maybe head south for a while go see family have not seen in about 10 years and have not been home in about 13 years.
@@DangarMarine maybe as side prokect you could make folding tender mount for the transom of renko to get red dwarf out of the water. gotta take care of her
Thank you for the mapping lesson...it's good to get this info back in the front of my noggin :) Damn nice storm you had going there...any port (harbor) is good in a storm!
Love the charting classes. Never had a chance to learn as much of that as I always wanted to know. Maybe at the end you could put them all into one video with marked bookmarks for each "lesson"
Good refresher on navigation. From my days at the Navy Trade School on the Severn river at Annapolis we used the mnemonic of "Can Dead Men Vote Twice At Elections/ CDMVTAE. You start with Compass reading, then add/subtract Deviation for Magnetic, then add/subtract Variation for True heading; the AE stands for 'add East' which also infers subtract for West in the calculation. So easy even a midshipman can do it.
luv the chart refreshers my bro was certified and great at celestial and his charts. taught me a great deal after reading coarse books. cant always risk/ rely on electronics after a white out squall and lighting hit i was lost in gulf of mexico.
Really enjoying your tour. Interesting, we have a Pumpkin Island here where I live about 20 minutes south of my house. I assume its thus named due to its resemblance to a pumpkin from above. Sadly its getting colder here and my boating days are limited, but I managed to get out and tour the bay extensively after getting my boat mostly fixed. You have definitely inspired me to get more work done and enjoy the water.
How's that lumpy Kepple Bay square chop.... There's some good squid fishing on the northern side of Pumpkin Island. Coiro Bay area was the main water catchment for Yeppoon until just recently, it often rains there when it's dry everywhere else! Great vid thanks for sharing and safe travels.
Nice chart work! I’m assuming you don’t have a deviation table for rencko? Steel boat must be quite interesting! I heard they used to build riveted steel boats on shipways aligned N/S as the hammering set the boat into a magnet and it’s easier to swing for deviation if it’s set up N/S…… Cheers warren
I quite enjoyed the navigation lesson. When technology fails that knowledge could really save the day. Looks like the wet season is closing in up there. Time to head south?
My experience, limited as it is, I would have the engine idling just in case. I wouldn't want the shit to hit the fan without some other options! Really apprecitate the lesson on compass navigation! Cheers from British Columbia.
The chart work is exactly the same for flight training. One way I remember magnetic vs true.Magnetic is where the vikings live, True where Santa Claus lives. Good to see two things I love.Boating and aviation.
Ok, just got to the part with the winch and talking about the dyneema rope used for the anchor. I’m experiencing a definite RRREEEE moment looking at the BIG tieoff point right there under the winch as I listen to Stu saying he just runs it straight off the winch. I’m almost 60 years old and all I can hear is my dad saying “if you got it, why aren’t you using it?” You took 25 years off my life (the wrong way) Stu!
