<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br clear="all"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, 16 Dec 2022 at 12:15, Andy Townsend <<a href="mailto:ajt1047@gmail.com">ajt1047@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
<div><p>Most of the time, yes they can* - 8000 launches per year between
400 lifeboats is on average 20 per year. If we take a guess at 8
hours per launch, it's there 98% of the time.</p></div></blockquote><div>By those numbers, yep, perfectly correct!</div><div><br></div><div>But those 8000 launches are for actual rescue call-outs - they don't include the boat/s going out for training, PR jobs etc or being away from Base for servicing & so on. <br></div><div><br></div><div>& if the Unit has two boats, which side of the jetty are they each moored at today?</div><div><br></div><div>e.g. <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/edit#map=18/36.95504/-76.32943">https://www.openstreetmap.org/edit#map=18/36.95504/-76.32943</a> (Bing) - so can we stick a pin on the north side of Pier 11 & mark that as the <i>Gerald R Ford</i>?; <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/edit#map=17/36.95551/-76.32857">https://www.openstreetmap.org/edit#map=17/36.95551/-76.32857</a> (Esri) - Ooh, maybe not?; but then again <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/edit#map=18/36.95551/-76.32993">https://www.openstreetmap.org/edit#map=18/36.95551/-76.32993</a> (Esri Clarity) - well, the <i>Harry S Truman</i> is a <i>Nimitz</i> class rather than a <i>Ford</i>, but that's close enough, isn't it? <br></div><div><br></div><div>I have to keep saying the same thing - boats are mobile objects, & as such, shouldn't be mapped.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks<div><br></div><div>Graeme</div></div><br></div></div>