Appointments diary for Windows XP
Just makes me glad I was a "dabtoe" on a "skimmer" 
Like most trainees, we learned the basics of chart navigation, in the "seamanship" part of our training. But as I was training to be a Radio Operator, I did not think Navigation was that important. However, I must have "taken it in", as during our training, we had to take a wooden MFV from Portsmouth Dockyard, to Alderney, in the Channel Islands.... At age 16, I was the "navigating officer" and I had to "lay the course". Due to the slow speed of the MFV, the tide changed from helping us along, to hindering us during the early part of the second night. Our ETA at Alderney harbour was around 22:30 and in darkness.
Each port, has a "noddy`s guide written to assist entry by all types of vessel. I had marked the chart to arrive at the second buoy, on a particular course, then read the entry for Alderney.
"Entry into Alderney harbour, should not be attempted at night, without previous experience of daylight entry."....
Fortunately we tied up at the second buoy without incident....
(And I`m still chuffed to bits about it ! ! !
Like most trainees, we learned the basics of chart navigation, in the "seamanship" part of our training. But as I was training to be a Radio Operator, I did not think Navigation was that important. However, I must have "taken it in", as during our training, we had to take a wooden MFV from Portsmouth Dockyard, to Alderney, in the Channel Islands.... At age 16, I was the "navigating officer" and I had to "lay the course". Due to the slow speed of the MFV, the tide changed from helping us along, to hindering us during the early part of the second night. Our ETA at Alderney harbour was around 22:30 and in darkness.
Each port, has a "noddy`s guide written to assist entry by all types of vessel. I had marked the chart to arrive at the second buoy, on a particular course, then read the entry for Alderney.
"Entry into Alderney harbour, should not be attempted at night, without previous experience of daylight entry."....
Fortunately we tied up at the second buoy without incident....
(And I`m still chuffed to bits about it ! ! !