Once again I am confused as the description covers two flags both with different meanings. Or have I got the wrong end of the stick again. I am after all a Simple Sailor 😀

The correct answer is missing
>>> I need a doctor
I actually need that now 🙈🙉🙊
M-C
PS:enough is enough . .I'll take a break and do some handicrafts instead

I agree Nickthe steam - UK dive flag is white with a blue square in the middle. I thought that these days there were international standards for signal flags - have these changed?

In the Hungarian language there are 44 letters or combinations of two letters that give a distinct sound. Some letters, like A either is written as a or á. Each one has a different sound. O has three. This would clarify the sound on bow as, for example only, bow or böw giving the o different sounds. Makes reading words a little easier because you know how each letter sounds as you read it.😃

In the UK I thought it was the alpha flag (blue/white). In the US Canada and some European countries it is a red flag with a white diagonal stripe...

Lucky guess. Had no idea
Rick

Hey Luckyduck!
For us, it's the officials under the motto:
The left hand does not know what the right hand is doing!!!
Good Night, Michel-C.
😂😂😂😂😂
Ps: Fortunately : I love you is still easy to understand . . Otherwise I would have problems with my wife . . 😇😇😇

Hi Boatshed -I don't think English is the only language at fault here - there are examples throughout world languages, but because English is so common, it is the first to be picked on, and that does not include any of the dialects, especially those from Glasgow - no offence to any Glaswegians, but some of the locals even have diffidulty understanding each other.

HI luckyduck, that's another one of those English words "BOW" that has two different meanings. This is why Mike Stoney from Switzerland also doesn't understand our English Language. It's so confusing, we can say the same sentence with a different tone of voice and it will mean something completely different. I used to work with a couple of Greek Ciprite's and I tried to explain this to them as it could sound veery offensive but I just couldn't get them to understand it.

I thought crossing the bow was when you put an arrow onto the string before pulling back - or is that the wrong bow? Poor folks who don't have English as their first language must wonder what planet we are on when one word has such vastly different meanings!!

I'm wondering about the validity, and accuracy of some of these "trick" questions and answers. I noticed the majority of us answered "D" which seems the most diffinitive answer relating to this question.

It is obvious that causing a right of way to be impaired can result in a boat collision. However just crossing someone's bow may or may not depending on the distance and other factors.👎

'Bug' nicht Bogen Mike😉
Einen Bogen kann nur über-gespannt werden, nicht wahr?😁

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Well got todays one wrong, had a boat on the Norfolk Broads for 25 years and was using hire boats also since I was 15 and now 73. I went for answer "D" what a NUMPTY. Still there you go 🤣🤣.

I admit.. I guessed this one...🤔

Crossing the bow ??? Den Bogen überqueren . . Hä?
Now I don't understand your language any more.
😵‍💫🙈😜😝

Made an obvious but lucky decision…

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Anwser is wrong. Cpt Cook was using it to map Australia.

Hi SimpleSailor, Does that mean you can ask Alexa the answer to these questions? To be Honest the main thing I ask her is to play Gold radio, what is the temperature outside and what is the time if I cannot see the clock from where I'm sitting. Or maybe to play some specific music. I didn't even think of that, to me that would be cheating, if I don't know then it's a lucky guess or get it wrong.

Great grab Simple Sailor!!!

Although I got it wrong. It looks like Cpt. James Cook used Harrison's chronometer in 1779 and Darwin's trip was in 1831. I think Alexa has it wrong 🤣

On the subject of the boxartden and their wonderful site…https://www.boxartden.com/gallery/index.php/Boxart-Collection

In was lucky on that one. I only went for it as Charles Darwin was on that ship as I could also recall from some history lesson in school, not that I listened to too much at school. But I am not too good on much history. I wish I had learnt more at school. If my dear old dad was still with us (R.I.P pop) I would ask him these sort of things, he was a navy man. He was a Chief Stoker in the Navy, hard work so I believe to keep a ship going in the Second World War. I used to rib him saying he must have been on the building crew of the HMS Mary Rose.😂

Ed, I think Bligh was attached to his sextant and not the chrono? But, yes worth investigation.

Got that one as I sent the old Revell box top art by the great John Steel to the boxartden for restoration and their permanent archives not too long ago. 😉

Why did Captain Bligh go to the lengths he did to retain his chronometer and that was well before the HMS Beagle
I think this needs to be checked.

She was launched in 1797 and is still a commissioned ship in the U.S. Navy. That Joshua Humphries, he knew how to build 'em

Like Doug said think I knew the answer as we have had the question before. Still it gives us a talking point and you can learn a lot on the side!

As my memories fades so does my score!
Roy

I thought Josiah Fox drafted this ship and Humphreys argued for copper sheathing, but I am getting old, and basically a landlubber to boot !
Love the site, keep it up.😊

A lucky guess from me I had no idea slow bringing the numbers back up I had bad run for a while 👍
Phil

Lucky guess for me on that one today. 😁

Saw her in dry dock on her last major refit and resto… mid ‘80’s if memory serves. Marines on duty were the park rangers and museum guides. Tough to find so much white and live oak in one place. 😉 21 inches thick. Amazing to see.

Old Ironsides!! You know, it kinda shames me that I didn’t know she’s still commissioned.

Deja vu??

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I got lucky as well Doogle. A lottery ticket purchase may be in order for both of us today. 😉

Lucky, guess, correctly 😁. I'm learning more about sailing ⛵️ each day 😀

Hi commodore-H yes it could be a fathomometer but if you thought in fathoms you probably had a knotted rope to measure them with.😊

My son proceeds down the channel, it takes 30 minutes through shifting and twisting sand bars to the sea with centimeters to spare. Often just 10 cms. of clear water under the keel.

An exact measurement is needed for that.

REgards
Roy

It could also be a fathometer

I thought Sounders were used when it was foggy! 😂

Hence the expression for 'skivers' of Swinging the lead!
My son calls his depth measurer a 'Sounder'. Good enough for me.
Roy

A depth finder I think is the correct answer here..🙄..

Good Morning „Modellbauer“!
Modern technology!
In pirate times, they were ropes with knots and a weight. The person who was allowed to measure gave the depths. He better not have had too much to drink the night before!
Well, that was a long time ago. .
Cool, that time . . No hustle and bustle and mobile phone addicts like today .
Shit, my coffee is empty
Michel-C.

Modern torpedoes are also designed to attack just about everything on land and sea..and air for that matter. In many cases modern subs don't even have to leave port to do so. Frankly, it's terrifying what modern subs can do.

No brainer this morning - unless after sinking them you try to salvage anything useful 😂😂

Alessandro, you are correct, otherwise-
"Errare humanum est, sed in errare perseverare diabolicum."
A maxim meaning that to make mistakes is a common (and by implication forgivable) human attribute, but to persist in making the same mistake is a personal or moral flaw (and by implication less forgivable).
Can this also be applied to AI?
Don't be too hard on Stephen, suus non sua culpa, it's the AI's fault!

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"Errare humanun est".
But the error must be corrected.

Maybe I take it too seriously, after all it's a game.
But I thought that we should try to find the exact answer and not make random choices.
The game is instructive and you can always learn something, as long as there is greater rigor in seeking exact answers.

If I can make a suggestion, I would do this:
I would start from an absolutely exact statement, taken from one or more encyclodedic texts (in the United Kingdom there is certainly no shortage of authoritative and reliable publishers) and I would build the question from there.
Furthermore, if the error occurred I would immediately rush to correct it to avoid making bad disclosure.

This time the topic was very interesting and I liked it a lot, in fact it is very relevant to the topics covered in this forum.

Too bad because I was liking this game.

I too chose running. At least I was in the majority! A multitude of online sites with Q&A relating to many things including nautical interests. Perhaps drawing from them would be less questionable.

I too went for run...

'fraid not DG☹️
Only the 'good things' come in 3s.
Bad things seem to have no limit at the moment.
Or was it always so?

Not only this question is questionable but the alleged correct answer is highly so!
Close reach ~= Close hauled; i.e. the wind is off the bow, P or S.
The AI Stephen is using was obviously never a sailor.🤔
I (like the majority) plumped for Running, as being the only option where the wind is off the stern.
Hey ho!
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PS On this basis I don't think I want any form of AI trying to run my house!💥🔥❄️🙈

I agree totally with Alessandro and I used to race sailing dinghies.