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    #61
    Originally posted by d000hg View Post

    Given it takes something like a day for them to get up to full speed, I don't think millisecond timing is the issue
    Yes quite, but I meant millisecond reaction times to course deviations
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      #62
      Originally posted by OwlHoot View Post

      Yes quite, but I meant millisecond reaction times to course deviations
      from a 220 Kilotonne ship? did you do basic physics???

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        #63
        Who do I sue for this scandalous claim? I'm innocent!

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        Last edited by Uncle Albert; 26 March 2021, 16:10.
        England's greatest sailor since Nelson lost the armada.

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          #64
          Originally posted by Uncle Albert View Post
          Who do I sue for this scandalous claim? I'm innocent!

          so good you posted it twice?
          Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

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            #65
            Originally posted by vetran View Post

            so good you posted it twice?
            Sorry, not sure how that happened. I'm going to blame the forum upgrade.
            England's greatest sailor since Nelson lost the armada.

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              #66
              Originally posted by Uncle Albert View Post

              Sorry, not sure how that happened. I'm going to blame the forum upgrade.
              Yeah Nick only has half his mind on fixing it (that is more intelligence than most of General put together though) now he has to work for a living.
              Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

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                #67
                A dredge-full situation
                "A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves and traitors are not victims, but accomplices," George Orwell

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                  #68
                  Update:

                  Frustration as ship laden with sex toys gets blocked from entering passage
                  https://metro.co.uk/2021/03/27/ship-...-jam-14314453/
                  bloggoth

                  If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'
                  John Wayne (My guru, not to be confused with my beloved prophet Jeremy Clarkson)

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                    #69
                    It's starting to move

                    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-56559904

                    "You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JR

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                      #70
                      given that the stern is hard against the other bank, how will that work?
                      Like this:

                      The stern of a huge container ship that has been wedged across the Suez Canal for almost a week has been freed from the shoreline, officials say.

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