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Re: "Hard a starboard" (was John E. Doolittle)
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lugnet.pirates
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Sun, 30 Jan 2000 00:16:27 GMT
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In lugnet.pirates, Frank Filz writes:
> Ok, I found a nice little web page which describes how the confusion came
> about, it even details why I thought I remembered something about the
> command given to the Titanic helmsman was incorrect (though it doesn't
> explicitly mention that, it does mention one of the references that I might
> have heard this from). Anywise, what it comes down to is that when you have
> a tiller, you need to turn the tiller opposite the direction you want the
> boat to go. When you have a whipstaff or wheel, you turn the whipstaff or
> wheel in the direction you want to go. However, the command given to turn
> the rudder was historically always given in reference to a tiller, so you
> turn a whipstaff or wheel opposite the command.
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> Here's the reference:
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> http://users.senet.com.au/~gittins/wheel.html
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> Incidentally, looking through several books on ships I have, every
> illustration, which shows enough of the steering gear to figure out which
> way you turn it to turn the rudder, shows that you turn a whipstaff or wheel
> in the direction you want the ship to go.
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> Frank
Well done. Thanks for the excellent refernce. Yes, the America's Cup boats
turn in the direction of the wheel. I learned to sail before I could drive, so
the opposite direction tiller thing never bugged me.
Bruce
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| OK, now that I've recovered, but lost all the knowledge of which messages I had read... (I've been thinking of writing my own customized newsreader, OEs little crashes are making me seriously consider it...) Bruce Schlickbernd wrote in message ... (...) (25 years ago, 29-Jan-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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