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Speed Log adjustment

6/5/2012

 
The speed on the Thames is restricted to 8 kilometres per hour, which is about 4.2 knots. But how do you know what speed you are doing?
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Transit Markers
There are a number of places on the Thames where you can find transit markers spaces exactly 133.3 metres apart. This is because 8 km per hour is equal to 133.3 metes per minute. So, the idea is that you time your boat passing between these markers and if you take less than 1 minute, then you know that you are travelling too fast!

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Speed log
I have added a clipper duet to AViVA which measures depth and speed. The speed measurement is achieved through a spinning wheel under the waterline, but this needed adjustment, so I used the transit markers on Port Meadow, near to Oxford and made the adjustments as I took a few transits across these markers gradually getting a one minute transit with a speed showing 4.2 knots.

The photos above show the speed markers from the river bank, taken on a pleasant spring walk along the river.


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