Come on down to longest answer wins at least it gives me a fighting chance of knowing it 🤣🤣
Phil uk👍

Did somebody out there make this question JUST for me?😁

The last three questions are very similar to one's we have already had 21st-23rd Jan🙄. Nearly "Revision" ones.
I remember the Transportable Moisture Limit bulk cargo one (22nd), Nickel ore, as I think I may have got it wrong the last time😠.

Hard question today, got it wrong and hopefully will do better tomorrow. Seems like most of the questions would be correct but picked the wrong one🤔😕

todays question was a stinker. I kept looking thinking I should click on what seemed obvious, but then kept thinking, this a trap 😀 so I chose as a wild guess Nickel Ore. Bingo. I have since done some research and realised the Ai is getting sneaky and trying to lead us into a fall sense of security by mentioning 2016 IMSBC in one of the answers. It is a category C item in the 2016. I think it has been upgraded to A in the latest version 2024/25

I agree they are both cat a under that reg so question is wrong with two correct answers you have a fifty fity chance of getting it it right
Philuk👍

Thanks Ed, put bauxite, without looking up any answers, as it seemed the most likely to liquify - hard to believe nickel ore can liquefy.

In todays question both Nickel Ore and Bauxite (as per 2016 IMSBC Code) are definitely classed as Group A cargo. Both require a certificate of Transportable Moisture Limit.
Therefore both are correct, t this question must be cancelled and a new one published.

Some people might find this interesting when it comes the soft iron balls on the compass.
https://www.brucemuseum.ca/collection/special-steering-compass-a-1920s-era-steamship-binnacle/

I thought the answer should have magnets in it! Seems like Wikipedia agrees as well!
Roy

I used the LAW...
Longest answer wins

In Todays question none of the answers are correct, you cannot get it right.

Well----The compass question, if I'm not mistaken, was a load of old Kevin's balls 😉 so I'm off down to the Flinder's bar for a pint of rum. 😉😋

Not really, I don't drink--only tea or coffee 😊..

Don't knock it Pat it is a bit of fun. I can't say I found your questions any better, they seemed for those who were ex sea-farers. I make model boats and yachts not been to sea except on a cruise and the crew rarely take you into their confidence about their credencials.

I see that you are currently at 97% so well done, the next step is 100% and after that the only way is down! If the answers from A.I. are wrong they are cancelled, a recent survey of A.I. as far as information went, was one result was just 54% correct so I am not holding my breath!
Roy

Again it's one we have had before Nick, getting a bit repetitive and boring now :-)

Process of elimination. Not SOLAS, that's to do with construction safe practice,we had blast water water management a couple of days ago. SCTC is to do with training standards, I think, so it can only be MARPOL...

Blew it at the last question!!!
Roy

Well i nearly went for the longest and bit sneaky of ai putting a short answer in just to confuse us.
Glad your back home and on the mend nhs is wonderful 🤣🤣
Philuk👍

Goog news for Steve’s broken leg, doctors will fix it with Superglue like they did to me. Does a better job than stitches or clips. 😂

What about Steve's virtual broken leg, he was committed in an involved sort of way, and now needs friends or maybe supervision?
Hope all good with you now Ed.
Roy

Ed,
That's great news, congrats!

Good news, I’m home again

Well it is a lovely sunny morning here in lowestoft uk is talking about a snow bomb coming, lets hope they have got that wrong roll on the summer, i for one cant wait i hate the winter, well i hope you guys have a grest weekend
Philuk👍

And welcome back to longest answer wins going to get caught out unless i read the questions
Philuk👍

Well that question was a bit of a no brainer...

Hi Roy,
If I told the Doctor that I had "accidentally" broken my leg so that I could go see Ed, in hospital, I would certainly be "committed" ---- and would probably be taken away in a straight jacket 😁😞🙃😟.

Hi Steve S re hospital visiting. It is the difference between being committed and 'involved'.
Roy

I almost went for the longest answer but it sounded like one of the rules of kelvin was be hayho got to wait now for one more wrong answer to drop of longest wins again
Have to rename qod to "longest answer wins"
Philuk👍

When I was doing a QoD it was not so repetitive !!

Most long winded answer wins again!

That's right, Steve, you're right. AI, lacking new topics, revisits themes already covered and rephrases questions differently.
It's always better than repeating the same questions and answers. I don't find the repetition of certain topics entirely negative.
When the question about "Teredo Navalis" comes up again, you'll surely know the answer.

I think that most of the recent questions have been asked before with a slight variation so have been more or less "revision" ones so easier to answer.
I'm waiting for the one concerning the naval wood worm to "resurface" which I got miserably wrong the last time 😶😐😣, with the Latin spelling.

Ey-up Roy that's a bit drastic; wouldn't it be easier to find out the visiting times and smuggle in some plywood, balsa and a few tools and a good boat plan to keep poor Ed occupied or are the nurses doing that-- Ed ????😊🤞.🙄.....
Anyway Ed hope you have a quick recovery
Steve. 👍

Hi Ed this is where you find out who your friends are!
Who is willing to break a leg to give Ed some company in the ward?
Roy

You and me to boatshed it wont be long before i slide down again i am getting dizzy up here 😁
Philuk👍

I was considering between A & C, but wasn't sure.
I took a punt at C and was lucky to get it right. 👍
Still playing snakes and ladders waiting to get it wrong again and slide back down to the bottom.
It wont be long. 🤞🤞

Ed,
That sounds like an excellent "teaching opportunity".
Make some new converts ... 😁
I hope you have a speedy and successful recovery.
Dave B

The trouble is that the guys in my ward no nothing about boats, neither do the nurses. So no help with QotD, could say they are all clawless 🤣

Hi Ross, I completely agree with you.
Without offense or criticism, because everyone is free to think as they wish, I think this is a very interesting topic and absolutely consistent with this site and with naval modeling.
I like knowing the name and function of each element that makes up a hull, the rigging and the sails.
I know them very well because it's a fun topic for me, and now, thanks in part to this site, I'm even learning the English terms.

But I like sailing questions⛵

Another Blooming sailing question??????
I have no clew as to anything about sailing.
I don't know anything about siling, so I just went for the answer that seemed to be the most
obvious,
It seemed to have the clew in the question, (clew) and in the answer Clewline and Clewing up.
Seems that that was correct.
Just luck , and the CLEW was both in the question and in the answer.

Hi Ed, sounds like things can only get better!

B****y cold outside so enjoy the balmy atmosphere inside and all those lovely young ladies, especially the ones in uniform! Best not to let me get going on that subject, my pace-maker might not cope!
regards
Roy

Now thats comitment to the cause get well soon hope all is going well
Philuk👍

Doing QotD from my hospital bed, I’m really a sad bugger.😂

I remember it in the news

A Pompey (Portsmouth) speed controller was the first published circuit diagram for building your own ESC, and it worked. It used what looked like a large top hat type transister with about 6 wires coming out. If memory serves.
At the time we had Bob's boards and very expensive commercial esc's. Like a good week's earnings.
I think there were 4 off OC29 power transitors with the circuit components mounted on Vero board. It was before we all got to know Duel in line integrated circuits or 'chips as we now call them.

Rather large losses in the o/p cct. but otherwise they were great.

There were 3 good RC circuits that came out and that was one of them the others were the relay cct that switched out the power transistors to connect the drive motor to the battery direct at full speed.
The other was the battery eliminator circuit that was in an early issue of the Model Cars magazine, an off shoot of Model Maker.
This was a simple power transistor (small black ones) and a Zener diode plus some stabilising ccts. and I also fitted a red LED. I made at least half a dozen of those.

There is no need for the relay circuit now as the voltage drop across FET's is negligible, and the current esc's I use now are 'different' (?) and has over taken my knowledge.

Roy

Good luck with the operation. Ed. Roy, A Pompey esc? What's one of them? Are they a home build?

Hi Ed, hope all goes well for you in hospital.

I have just read through the Titan tug thread. I also made a Pompey esc. Mine was buried in a small tobacco tin which also worked as the heat sink. I lent it to a friend for a while and when I asked how it was going on, he said he had sold the boat, did not think you would want it back!

He was old (but younger than I am now!) and he would ask to borrow magazines from my archive I learnt to ask for them back after a week or so, as the first lot I lent him, he through them out with the rubbish and I retrieved them from his dustbin!

In those days I was gainfully employed and went on to assemble a 6 channel Micron Tx and Rx. The Micron receivers were the best you could have, much better than the rather crude Futaba one. This was part of the rare side of 27Mhtz, being FM but I still have 3 or 4 crystal sets.

The Futaba receiver never really worked properly and it was sent off for repair. It did not work when returned, and I phoned the company (no Internet then) and said you have tuned it to 35Mhtz not the 27 Mhtz I put in my letter.

There was a lot of denial and when he had finished I asked if he wanted the 35 Mhtz crystal back that was in the receiver?
It was repaired retuned etc but as I said was not much good.

I think the Futaba brushed alluminium transmitter was the best example of design and pleasure to hold. Fleet copied it very well though.

Roy

Blimey, this quiz has more repeats than the BBC!

I wish you a speedy recovery, EdW. When you're well, you can answer today's questions.