A dingy without buoyancy is basically a bath with sails 🤣

This buoyancy standards question took me so long that my phone shut down twice 🤕 before I had the chance to put in my answer, probably quite an easy one for anyone who actually sails yachts 😐.

I have swum and dived on the Great Barrier reef, then there were 2 dodgy answers leaving just one.
Roy

Well if I didn't get this one right, it would prove I knew nothing atoll..😁

Hi Steve -s I too like to have a book to refer to as well. We may well be the dinosaurs here, on the other hand we can read our book without having to have a 'signal' or broadband etc.

We can find somewhere quiet and with the technical books I have some paper tabs to act as page markers. Too many times it has taken ages to get back to a particular item or reference.

I have belonged to one library or another for 80 years now. I could hardly wait to be 7 when I was first allowed to join a library.

regards
Roy

Nobody is forcing anybody to do QoD or even be on this group - if something doesn't fit, then others may just enjoy a bit of fun, and perhaps some learning?

I presume that this document for a "certificate of registration" is also relevant now, and not just during "the age of sail ".🤔🤔😐, for a safe passage in foreign ports.
I'm sure that someone will know for sure?? 😊.

Roy, the only three boats that I have built, all took a lot of research to get the info on their history of the exact number that I wanted to "call" them. I finished up buying about 8 books on
Submarines, and a lot on coastal command boats. I would rather have a book in my hands rather than looking for the information on the internet 🙄😁--and it's easier to refer back to.👍

Hi all, the Q o D is the most popular thread on this forum so rather a lot of us like it and it is a bit of a challenge. Questions about model boats are limited and often subjective.
Most of us make models of prototypes and that is in the main what the questions are about. I have to admit questions about regulations are not relevant as they are the ins and outs of ship life.

So apart from that I am game for most of the questions and as other members have said a bit of logic to exclude some answers and deduce from the questions parts that appear in the answer options give the answer anyway.
Ed points out they are a bit of fun and sometimes things go wrong!

I would vote for rather than against, I have my private war with A.I. as many will know but it is all a bit of fun.

Roy

Pat with due respect this falls under games so treat it as such. It is there for entertainment and not there as an exam.
Just chill out and enjoy.
Some people do not have your breath of experience and apart from that I have looked and cannot find the rule book for Qotd
So calling people cheats is as bad as when someone slagged you off lighten up.
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This is becoming tedious and boring - I personally think my questions were a lot more challenging and harder for the cheats to find the answers but hay ho - how can you test your knowledge agaist other peoples knowledge or in a lot of cases the computers knowledge.
As been said many times before ok to look up the correct answer if you get it wrong after answering, also multiple choices give the answer away
Oh and I dont hear the purists saying these qurstions are not about model boats - so perhaps they just did not like my questions because it showed up how much knowlegde they really have

👍I'm with Luckyduck with this one and the answer I gave was likened to driving a car where you apply the brakes slowly and with the use of the clutch 😊.
Now waiting for the flak to come back. 😞😕😩....

I have no idea of the correct answer, took a guess and was told I had already answered.
Which I had not.
AustinG😊

In the Royal Navy we have a Captain of the Fo’castle to look after such things normally a Leading Seaman or Petty Officer

A pure unadulterated guess. The answer option seemed more involved so opted to C
Roy

Never heard of a wildcat windlass system - there only only two wildcats I know - the animal and the helicopter - just shows what you learn from these questions.

A and C are both correct, C is just a full description of the same operation
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Wow! I am at 100% now. Hope I can keep this position. 😊👍

I'm writing this because Doug quoted me directly.

There's no point in repeating what I've already written and reiterated.
Anyone who wants to know my thoughts on the matter, if they're interested, can read my old posts.
I can only add this: to console those who use books, the internet, or AI before responding and don't openly admit it, they could go to hell, because those who tell lies go to hell (it's well known).
But in my opinion, hypocrisy is worse than lies.

There have been many requests for members to send in suitable questions, but presumably there weren't that many sent in or suitable. Admin cannot be expected to keep dreaming up new questions, so thanfully AI is there to help him, otherwise this part of the site would collapse. Your choice as to whether you want some light hearted fun or not.

BTW - I have never had any emails chasing me to answer the question. Lucky, or have I got a setting to block them, never seen such a setting.

It is rare that I know the answer before I see the options, but usually it is fairly easy to work out which is most likely to be the correct one.
I would never dream of checking the question on line in search of answer, I never cheat.

Hi Garth, Using AI, Google or what ever is OK.
BUT ONLY AFTER you have given your answer to check the 'facts' .

Extract from my previous post-
"I DO use Google. BUT! Only to check my facts when I am given wrong by AI and vehemently protest when my answer proves correct and exposes an AI screw up. As is well documented below.
Anyone competing in a quiz and using Google (or similar) to find the answer is only deceiving himself, no one else."

BTW: Re If I stop, I'll get a ship load of emails to tell me to answer.
Don't understand this at all🤔 I have never seen such a mail demand.
Can you post a screen shot of an example?
Cheers, Doug😎

GARTH-----drop your flag to half mast 👇 🇨🇦 😁 😃😜..

Only kidding, the last few questions have been asked before so it's been easier to get them correct if you can remember that far back 🤔🤔🤔.

'Ye Gods and little fishes' finally a duff answer extinguished and one step up to joint 3rd at 93%😀With luck tomorrow (21.09) I can hike up another step.
Today's (19.09.) question was pretty easy, but even if you didn't know the answer 'vom Haus aus' as my German mates would say (or 'Off the bat' so to speak) it was pretty simple to work out using common (🙄) sense logic. AI often tells you the answer in the offered options.😁

@ Pat;
I tend to agree👍100% day to day is unrealistic and borders on the superhuman.
When I look at the scoreboard I disregard the '30 correct, 100%' entries and bump everyone else one place higher.
I DO use Google. BUT! Only to check my facts when I am given wrong by AI and vehemently protest when my answer proves correct and exposes an AI screw up. As is well documented below.
Anyone competing in a quiz and using Google (or similar) to find the answer is only deceiving himself, no one else. By doing so he only degrades his integrity in the eyes of his peers.
Apropos University Challenge: "I've started so I'll finish"
G'night All,😎😴😴💤
PS I don't doubt I'll get another 3 foolscap page post from Alessandro defending his use of Google etc. As I think we've seen before.

I did not use AI today to answer the question. If I stop, I'll get a ship load of emails to tell me to answer, so I sometimes like to cheat. Plus AI teaches me things I never knew.AI gives an in-depth answer to the question, also. I suppose the moderator will have to demote me to 25%.now that I've confessed to my crime of cheating

Who thinks this is becoming boring - relying too much on AI and becoming more and more obvious that people are cheating

I simply cannot believe that some people can go for months without making a mistake

Whats the point in taking part in a quiz then looking the answer up

Perhaps in the UK people taking part in Mastermind or University Challenge should take their IPads with them

It has already given me my score then reduced it and now restored it!
Roy

I see that the questions and answers are about to go wrong again! I have answered this question correctly but it refuses to mark it so.
Roy

Surely in basic coastal navigation, when you see a headland sticking out, you steer to avoid it!!!! Many headlands actually stick out into the sea for a very long distance underwater, often with shallows that go on for a deceptively long way.

Read the question twice and D seamed the best choice.Turned out to be correct
Rick

Ditto repeato🙄

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I never even finished reading the question!
Roy

Deja vu 🤔

I had to get today's question right , ah shiver me timbers

I remembered this one from something like a month or two ago and it's been asked twice already 🤔🤔.
Shiver me timbers 😁 and where's mi parrot gone 😁😀.

Well I got todays answer correct. But it might be all down hill from here on. Off for a weeks holiday and not sure what the internet connectivity will be like when we get to Turkey..😉

Got today’s question wrong but is Ai correct?

Ok EdW about the eye piece, but I just remember all the Navy War films that I have watched on TV with the Captain on the bridge with a very large pair of binoculars looking out for enemy ships, or Captain Edward Smith of the Titanic wearing a large pair.
It was just a tragedy that the crews on lookout duty didn't have them to look for icebergs 😐😨. I read that they were locked away and nobody knew where the keys were.😕😥.

The answer is correct but pretty useless if the exit pupil size is not big enough.
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Done it many a time on yacht's and much bigger ships - if in sight of land always use visual fixes - dont rely on electric means if visiblity permits

Hi all this maybe historical but is also current! I did a RYA yacht course in the early '90s and on the last but one day we approached Plymouth harbour in the dead of night and used 'Leading lights' to guide us in. We were returning from the Channel Islands.

It worked perfectly, pairing up white lights and the chart showed us the direction of the next course change and then looked for the appropriate lights and it took us all the way to the mooring bouys. I seem to remember associated red and green lights to line you up.
It was a magical night with the stars out and a it was warm and very still, never forgotten it.
Roy

Nice memory Jumpugly.

After three years in Hawaii when I was a boy while my dad was in Vietnam, if I’d gotten this one wrong my native friends would’ve been very angry with me! Mahalo!

My boyhood house with Mount Olomana in the background. 👍

I liked the question.
Ships from the Far East and Oceania are usually overlooked.
I consider myself a ship and naval enthusiast (certainly not an expert, just an avid reader), but I must confess that I know very little about the Eastern world.

I hope that in the future the AI ​​will focus on ships that have been ignored (partially or totally).
I'd love questions about ships from the classical era, such as liburnians, triremes, and quinqueremes, etc.
I'd love questions about the ships that dominated the Mediterranean in the Middle Ages and the early Renaissance, such as the dromons of the Eastern Roman Empire (with their secret weapon of Greek fire) or galleys and galleasses.

Good morning, I believe that even if you're completely ignorant of the mathematical concept of intercepts and completely unfamiliar with the Sant Hilaire method, you can easily arrive at the correct solution if you understand the basic concept and definition of latitude.
I don't want to give a tip and ruin the fun of the game, but just think about what latitude is (you can easily ignore everything else). Well, if I only get the latitude wrong, where will the error extend? There's only one answer, and it's very simple.

In fact, although it seems like a very difficult question, the percentage of correct answers is very high.

That particular navigational technique has served me well in the past, it's got me safely across our lake many a time...

I didn't even understand the question - looked for common words in the answers, and by a fluke it was right - still doesn't make any sense to me, but then mayhbe the grey cells are aging too fast. As others have said, interesting to see how you get a model boat far enough out to sea and with someone on board to use this method.😁

Not sure if I need this method of navigation when finding the position of my boat on the pond. 😁. I had to read the question about twenty times before it sunk in, or is it sank in ? Then I did a simple drawing 😁

I looked up this method of calculating ones position at sea. The system which until now was unknown to me, then used the diagrams to work out an answer.
This question is really a niche one, however, it is one you can learn from.

Roy

This one is over the top, the only reason that I got it correct was that a week or so ago I was discussing the use of a sextant with a friend and got out “the gospel according to Mr Letcher” and refreshed my memory over the next few evenings, why I don’t know, but I must have sensed this comming.🤣

That is a very difficult question I doubt whether a newly qualified PWO(N) could answer these days