No, they were way before the "Baaaston Tea Party"
I give up. In one case you said "Hull Speed" limited your boat. Now you say it doesn't.
At least no one can accuse you of not changing.
My answer would be: Most likely your boat would change positions, forward or backwards, who knows.
james, you asked me if my boat would change positions. my boat would change positions. to be clear james, i have a 50 year collection totaling 9 boats. all nine would be changing lat and long. that's how it is for me.
Peggy, that's what Google is for. When I was in high school, you couldn't use a calculator on your math tests. Now, there are whole courses in college to use a calculator. There will come a day when using Google on a test will be SOP.
I just think there is a better word to describe it, I just can't think of it. 
No, actually it would have been stabawd. Port is pawt. No Rs. Actually, no aahs. Grew up in New England. I can speak the language.
And this Steerboard always ended up on the side of the dock. And that’s why the other side of the boat is called port
My father could use a slide rule we still have it somewhere. It’s an amazing piece of machinery.
I think you have it backwards...PORT is called "port" because it was always against the dock.
The rotating turret on that boat was a significant advance in armament. It allowed them to fire, then rotate the vulnerable barrel opening away from the enemy while reloading. If the enemy wanted to hit them where it hurt, he had to time his shot landing to coincide with the time when the turret gun slot was lined up to shoot at him. ...& he had to hit a small target in that small time-frame. That was not an easy task with the artillery of the day. The Monitor was very much a game changer.
No aahs in bean town???? Listen to the way people on the north shore say Toyota. (Toyoter) When I worked up in Woobin, Mary used to paak her Toyoter around the reea. The A's & R's got reversed.No, actually it would have been stabawd. Port is pawt. No Rs. Actually, no aahs. Grew up in New England. I can speak the language.
Yes and no. The crew never received any training on the rotating turret (or any of Ericsson's other inventions), so they didn't figure how it worked until late in the battle. Had they known sooner, the Monitor might have won the battle with the Merrimac instead of just stalemating it. If you go to the bottom of the page at the link I posted, you'll find links to more articles about Ericsson's inventions. And if you have any interest learning more about early steamships, Isambard Kingdom Brunel's Steamships is a great read. He was an English railroad builder during the Victorian era who decided to switch to designing and building ships. He built 3--the Great Western, the Great Britain and the Great Eastern, each of which had a fascinating history.
Actually, the only time they say their 'R's at the end of a word is when the word ends with an 'A'. If the word ends in 'R' they say 'A'. So, it is, "Linder pahked her ca' in the bahn." Literally translates to, "Linda parked her car in the barn."
I must be getting old! When I was in college electronic calculators hadn’t been marketed yet.
Father! I thought everyone used one???????????????????????????? Oh, wait! I don't know where I put mine.
He tried to teach me. I guess my school teachers were too busy trying to prepare me for standardized testing.
Eh. Get it right please. (Gadd (not Steve) do we have to ed-ju-ma-kate freakin everybody?)
The problem with this new fangled technology is that you have to be at the beach to use it.
I’m not too sure why you have to be at the beach to use it but I’d be happy to meet you there to find out. And maybe we can have a case or 3 of the Ommegang beer @Will Gilmore was going on about. You know, in the name of research.