Recent content by Oldgateboatdriver

Why pick points in the US? Trois-Rivieres, Quebec city, Bagotville, Sidney N.S., St-John's and every single point of every province from Manitoba (included) going West are North of North Bay. The only people who think that North Bay is a Northern town all live in Southern Ontario (which, as...

Assuming that the "managing and situational awareness" thing is what we call Integrated Platform management and Navigation, respectively, that would mean that we have the engineers, the bosns and OOW all co-located in the CIC (I hope that there is still a bridge with actual lookouts, just in...

I hope you know that an hectare is a measure of surface, not distance.

I guess you lose track of that stuff when you carry your own shower with you everywhere you go.

And we are different because ..... I did my first B.A. at Laval university, in Quebec City. It's a nice, wide open campus with various pavilions quite spread out on top of the local hill, and very windy and cold in winter. Most of the pavilions are linked by underground tunnel so you don't...

WTF??? If I shower for longer than 5 minutes on a ship, I am going to get shot!

I thought it was "the pen" that was most dangerous.

We'll start with terminology: there are no "side of international waters" involved here. International waters are just that: international. Thus no one has jurisdiction over anyone in international waters other than over their own flagged ships. What you do have between Canada and the USA in...

Isn't it usual for Germany and the USS...I mean Russia to have non-agression pacts?

You are far from the first one to make that mistake. People look at the map, with the Richelieu being an almost perfectly North-South river, and remembering their early childhood education (water always flows down), assume that the flow is North to South. Early in my law career, I worked at a...

I think that this event probably took place at or near the border. On which side, I do not know, and unless one of the parties has a system that properly recorded position for legal purposes, we will never know as it would be one's word against the other. While the Coat Guard boats at...

P.S.: The gentleman could not have been 10 miles inside Canadian waters as the whole bay is only 7.5 Km deep, calculated from the border.

I refer you to my post in the Canada/US Border Integrity thread. FSTO: There is little current in Missisquoi Bay as it is not connected to the Richelieu River. Any current there comes from the Missisquoi River, which is a pretty trickle at this time of the year. Moreover, in the Richelieu...

Look, we (HMCS Donnacona) used to patrol part of that area from time to time (Richelieu River - tip of Lake Champlain) and I've been on some of those patrols (disclosure: late 90's early 2000's). We had a good relationship with the Coast Guard and Border Patrol, a somewhat colder one with some...

I just signed it. When it comes to military honours in Canada, we are the poor kid on the block compared to just about every other nation. It's time it stopped. We spend enough money on the GG's office. It's her office's job to see that Canadian, ALL Canadians whether civilians or military...