Anybody else’s administration thinking of this nutty move? UK Hydrographic Office Withdrawal of Paper Charts - Meeting Invitation To: Harbour Towage Panel, Short Sea Shipping Panel Cc: Safety & Environment Committee Dear Member, As previously reported the UK Hydrographic Office (UKHO) announced …

An interesting question is , when will the lowly magnetic compass disappear from ships altogether? At one time it was the absolutely indispensable navigational tool. So much so that no proper navigational bridge on a big ship would have recourse to less than four, and that doesn’t include the one in…

Same thing with the Marcq Saint-Hilaire method. I’m pretty sure then, just as now, people that actually did high stakes navigation quickly adopted best practices. This discussion brings up interesting questions about the way we test mariners. There’s clearly people that just weren’t aware of how t…

Different problem. Aside from my air gapped laptop I won’t sail without my handheld compass. I don’t think you’ll see magnetic compasses disappear until reliable inertial nav is a reality, and there’s little market pressure helping inertia forward for maritime uses.

[image] MAK: I won’t sail without my handheld compass. I have carried one since my days of doing boat and ships delivery (1973-74) and all the years of rig moving after that. It is still with me. (Not much in use these days): [IMG_20221205_164617 (2)] Many of the boats did not have much in…

When I sat for my ticket we had to correct a magnetic compass mounted on a deviscope. A boat shaped plank with the compass mounted on it that the examiner had introduced errors into. The examiner sat there while you fumbled small magnets around as you tried to produce a deviation table with no value…

[image] Hornblower: how does that work then? You do manual plots. :man_shrugging:

I don’t think anyone’s mentioned a MAJOR drawback of current ECDIS - their size. Having a chart spread out over a table is so much more user friendly than a tiny standardized screen. Much more information is available instantly (without needing to go into a menu) We could make electronic chart sc…

I agree that a larger screen would be better. I’m only familiar with Transas but when properly set up there’s very little need to go into the menus, less so than than with using ARPA in traffic. My experience is learning the significant feature of an unfamiliar port is far quicker with the ECDIS t…

No direct relation but…: [image] Voyager Worldwide hit by cyber attack - Splash247 Maritime tech giant Voyager Worldwide has become the latest big name in maritime to be hit by a cyber attack. Since December 2, all systems have been taken offline at the navigation services and solutions …

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Nobody hacked a sunstone either, but you could probably drop it over the side accidentally.

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