Still do.
I had to prove I could draw a weather map from a single listen to the
shipping forecast (after being awake for nearly 36 hours) just last weekend.
http://www.yachtingmonthly.com/fileBank/PDF/met-map.pdf
Yet to be on a boat that doesn't listen religiously to the Shipping
Forecast.
Simon
On 18/05/2011 16:46, Ant Miller wrote:
Back in the day we used to have photocopies sheets with the areas
listed and you'd jot in the forecast off the radio. I have just
recalled that day was 20 years ago. Bugger.
On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 3:21 PM, Gareth Davis <gareth.da...@bbc.co.uk
<mailto:gareth.da...@bbc.co.uk>> wrote:
If I'm out on the water I'd listen via the coastguard MSI bulletin on
VHF, rather than tune in to Radio 4. But it's still the shipping
forecast either way.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-backst...@lists.bbc.co.uk
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> [mailto:owner-backst...@lists.bbc.co.uk
<mailto:owner-backst...@lists.bbc.co.uk>] On Behalf Of Tom Scott
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> To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk <mailto:backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk>
> Subject: Re: [backstage] A familiar face...
>
> Every boat I've be a crew on always tunes in. Although the
> 1979 Fastnet Race is often mentioned...
> Tom
>
>
> On 18/05/2011 14:35, "Dirk-Willem van Gulik"
> <di...@webweaving.org <mailto:di...@webweaving.org>> wrote:
>
> >
> > On 18 May 2011, at 14:23, Robert Binney wrote:
> >
> >> I have been told that "no sailors listen to the Shipping
> Forecast" -
> >> can this be true?
> >
> > Well - if you have the money (and enough battery power and
ample of
> > pricey thermal paper) - you get it off your navtex(1) or from the
> > met-office feed of immarsat(2). But I've found myself in a
> situation
> > more than once where knowing that you could be having _reliable_
> > warnings with just a simple battery & radio independent of
> it all was very reassuring.
> >
> > Dw.
> >
> > 1:
> >
>
http://www.frisnit.com/cgi-bin/navtex/view.cgi?NAVAREA=1&action=browse
<http://www.frisnit.com/cgi-bin/navtex/view.cgi?NAVAREA=1&action=browse>
> > &TYPE=24
> > H - the MET ones.
> > 2: http://www.opc.ncep.noaa.gov/shtml/UKMHSFAT
> >
> >
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