Hey, c'mon everone! The marinas and anchorages are getting crowded these days. The last thing we want to do is show that boating is EASY!

Follow the RYA's lead and make everything as computational and obscure as possible. Be prepared to demonstrate that, in the event of thick fog with no radar and the GPS broke, you need to be able to compute exactly where you are using nothing but your last fix, the log, chronometer and your course steered and, of course, the computed tidal vectors.

Yeh! I know: rather than the GPS being broke it's far more likely that the log's jammed with weed, the compass hasn't been checked for years and the last fix written in the log was when we left the mooring. Never mind - at least let's pretend it's all scientific and accurate and not a load of approximations and guesswork.

Just take a lesson from the medical profession, for example...