Cancel Culture's latest: Compass Heading Errors:

You made it political with your title and by posting it. I 100% agree with them that is not acceptable to be posted in an educational document nor in one certified by the CG. Surely someone can come up with a better way to remember. The idea of getting a virgin drunk to take advantage is indefensible and words structure our thought processes and influence our societal views. I would have seemed the simple solution would have been for Mariners Learning System to remove that.

Now should congress be spending time on it, no, but then the CG which won't allow any suggestive boat name should certainly not have approved those materials.

I learned that in 1959 (too young to understand) and don't think I've thought about it since. Can't believe they still say it in 2020 much less put it in government materials. If our government assigns this problem to about 20 committees they might get it out by 2059 (fast by government standards).

Judy....just because people have used it doesn't make it right and certainly not for documents to train captains. That just means it's use is being further encouraged and perpetuated.

As to the device, I've never used it and never heard it until today. It wasn't in my training materials. As my wife is a captain and I employee 4 female captains, I don't think it would be appropriate for them to be presented as part of their training and they're among the most open minded I know. Just including it in a formal training document is inappropriate.

Simple solution, remove it and move on, but labeling it Cancel Culture isn't appropriate either. It's just good taste.

I am so glad some Members of Congress have nothing better to do than worrying about a handful of offended snowflakes. I know a few women who did the course incl my GF years ago and none were offended.

It s actually True Virgins Make Dull Companions At Weddings... I had to look it up in an old sea school manual...

But hey... this is really far more important than being attacked by China or having a crime wave sweeping thru the country.

What simple solution has the government ever chosen?

And there it goes political.
Point of thread made. Time to lock it.

An even simpler solution pops to my mind - why not get rid of the compass error calculation altogether?
I'd be curious to hear if anyone has ever used the concept in practice, in real world.
I mean, aside from purely academic purposes.

not political. I refrain from mentioning the party affiliation of the gentlemen

Very rarely... but in a bind it’s worth knowing. That said, nowadays with having at least half a dozen GPS receiver onboard... odds of losing GPS are pretty low

unless China hacks into the system of course

I wouldn't worry about China.
More than likely, they already hacked the system long ago, and are enjoying it more than anyone else...

OK I'll bite. What "attack" by China, and What "crime wave"? Enough of this MAGAHEAD crap. And there's no phony smile on my post

I guess I'm not clear how this is gender specific in any way?

You're technically correct, but you do know it was referring to one gender. Regardless, it's not appropriate for training materials.

OB- you know I respect you, but I'll keep reciting it in my head every time I make the conversion.

and I mean it. Not phony. You re so far out there that it is really funny.

If my thread got locked for saying " Proud to be an American" this one is way beyond that.

I'm nowhere near as experienced a captain as most of you, and most of my cruising took place as a kid long before GPS and before Loran was affordable, so we always had paper charts around. So I can't figure out why you'd need any sort of memory aid because you'd just glance at the compass rose in any case.