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The Gantocks is a small group of rocks, lying off Dunoon in the upper Firth of Clyde, West of Scotland.
A navigation beacon was constructed on the rocks circa 1886. The beacon is 44 feet in height.
The Chart, Protractor and the circular slide rule side of a "Whizz Wheel" shown here are the very old school tools of the trade of aircraft navigators.
These day it is all done on a laptop or tablet but I like to teach the old school ways of doing it as it encourages a proper understanding of what is happening when planning a flight
Desk for Macro Mondays
#109 Utensils for 123 pictures in 2023
Doing some Navigation Aid Maintenance.
CCGS Samuel Risley[note 1] is a Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker and buoy tender assigned to the Great Lakes area (Central and Arctic Region). Lead ship of her class, the vessel is named after Samuel Risley, the 19th century maritime inspector and first head of Board of Steamship Inspectors for Upper Canada and Ontario.[1] Based in the Great Lakes, CCGS Samuel Risley is responsible for keeping an ice-free passage between Port Colborne, Ontario and Thunder Bay, Ontario.
Ordered in 1983, the ship was launched in 1984 by Vito Steel Boat & Barge Limited at their yard in Delta, British Columbia with the yard number 161.[3][6][7] The vessel was completed on 4 April 1985.[5][6] After completion, the ship sailed to eastern Canada, transiting the Panama Canal and deploying to the Great Lakes.[4] The ship is assigned to the Central Region, based at Parry Sound, Ontario.
Looking west from Blunder Lock towards Saul - this village is at the junction of the Stroudwater Navigation and the Gloucester and Sharpness Canal.
Eastoke navigation buoy struggling to cope with a big spring tide and also the waves left over after Storm Callum
The spectacular sunset on 9 June 2000 found Regional Railways-liveried 37429 growling across the Weaver Navigation bridge at Clifton near Frodsham heading the 19:54 Llandudno Junction to Manchester Piccadilly service.
Mamiya ProTL 500th @ f4 80mm f1.9 lens Provia 100 transparency film
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