Episode 16 takes you into the realm of my sailing studies, The Science Of Sailing. Just a few more days left before my Swiss Maritime license exam, I do the most to cram, but also get a real understanding of navigation, charts tides and much much more. We also take a break to go out and appreciate the mellow yellow Colza fields of Spring.

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well it's time to go again got a ponds
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all locked up all ready to take a little
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sleep until the next time and hopefully
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finish the wicked winch and have a
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license in hand so I can start doing my
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thousand nautical miles so it's a great
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couple weeks here back to Switzerland
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back to class the exam a little bit of
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reality life back in lane luck
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Switzerland today is inspection time for
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my little Lake boat my little sense in
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it I have a couple little problems had
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to deal with that I wasn't able to deal
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with before so now I have to pass
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inspection again and hopefully it'll go
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okay my brother Stefan's gonna come and
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help me with a couple little items one
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is to reinforce the deck a little bit
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and seal it better so I got some Sica
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silicone to do that and I also had to
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plug up a sea and I thought it'd be
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pretty complicated but I think I figured
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it out so hopefully it'll pass
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inspection plus my motor was dead before
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and I got a new motor but it's a
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two-stroke and two strokes were only
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good until 2017 we're good till June
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that's what the inspector said he was
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cool pass the inspection for a while so
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I figure out what to do with this boat
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it's pretty old and needs a lot of work
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and I don't know if it's worth it you
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can find pretty good deals on this Lake
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people just want to get rid of their
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boats so yeah Wow okay so this boat
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needs a nice little cleanup let's take
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you out a couple more times huh
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hey no dellacroix f8a she told up are
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you Neku uh some people smoking a joint
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over there and we can smell it all the
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way over here
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I'm standing here in front of my
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brother's house who's been kind enough
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to let me stay at this place until I get
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my sailing courses done as the test and
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can be more permanently on Gallup and on
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South of France I'm here in a suburb
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near Geneva and doing a lot of studying
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here for the test that's coming up soon
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and it is about navigational charting
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distances course Direction etc etc it
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also deals with a lot of tidal
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phenomenas and title calculations and
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the exercises and problems that we're
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solving are as if we were in the North
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Atlantic France in the English Channel
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where there's tides that can vary like
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around 10 to 12 meters now that means
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that it's three times the height of this
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hedge here this is approximately three
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meters high and if you can imagine a
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tide that is about 10 to 12 meters high
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and some like three to four times its
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height so it's pretty pretty important
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that your title calculations are correct
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we also have to memorize some
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calculations to allow us to determine
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what the speed is manually without a
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lock or speedometer if you want to call
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it calculations of how to see a
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lighthouse at a distance at a distance
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when visibility is strong visibility is
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weak this is also a chart to help you
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determine how far lighthouses with
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different visibility curves for example
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here if the visibility is only 2.2 miles
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5.4 miles etc so this helps to tell us
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when we're gonna see a lighthouse also
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we learned to read the lighthouse
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signals that they emit whether they
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oscillating or flashing etc etc whether
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the red white or green and this helps
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guide you in the right direction in
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treacherous waters for example there's a
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spot here on the map know if you can see
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where you have to enter Asia now as they
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call it or a way in here and the
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lighthouse helps you guide you in the
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right direction so all the stuff is
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really really really important in
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navigation
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which kind of took for granted at first
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but now I'm taking pretty damn seriously
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because this'll help is to help them and
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give me the knowledge to to navigate as
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safely as possible and also it's great
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to have all the iPads and all that stuff
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but nothing is as good as a real paper
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chart a real paper map and you know you
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can always rely on those the other thing
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I have to learn is everything in this
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book
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so what will happen on Saturday at the
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test is that we start at 8:30 in the
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morning we have two and a half hours to
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solve 12 problems navigational problems
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on charts in the navigational test you
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are not only graded on the question that
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you select from the multiple choice but
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how you got to that answer so you have
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to show your scribbles and notes and
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calculations on paper as well as on the
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actual map definitely trace it and then
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there's a lunch break and then the next
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part of the day in the afternoon we have
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to answer think 120 questions out of the
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360 here everything from meteorology to
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safety on board to parts of the boats to
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right-of-way right of international
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signals international flags buoys and
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notes and graphics on the map etcetera
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etcetera as well as a thorough section
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on health on board or first first-aid
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everything from concussions to broken
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limbs cuts all that kind of scary stuff
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even fish poisoning and how to notice
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the symptoms there's even a question on
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theirs what do you do if everybody's
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drunk on board well the answer to that
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question you select the person that's
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least drunk to the anchor or two to dock
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the boat after we've done the whole
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multiple-choice part of the test at 120
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questions then there are four problems
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to solve on tides and that'll be the end
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of the day and I will find out at the
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end of day whether I pass or not you
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need to answer 75% of the questions
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correctly and this goes for every
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different section or category so you
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can't just bail on charts or fail on
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questions and do really well something
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else on something else and
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to make it everything you do you have to
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pass with at least 3/4 of the questions
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right or 3/4 of the problem solved
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correctly so that's what's up and next
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time I see you I'll either have a long
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face or be happy is the pig and
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or sailor on a boat