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Post by JoeinOz on Jan 2, 2024 6:21:24 GMT
100 years old. German Bight Dogger, Humber etc.
A staple of Radio 4 just before The Archers. 🙂
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Post by chuffedstokie on Jan 2, 2024 7:55:43 GMT
North Ut Sire, South Ut Sire, Fisher, German Bight.
First two sound so different to the printed word. Now I've looked them up I know where they are!.
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Post by swampmongrel on Jan 2, 2024 7:57:29 GMT
Rockfall, Trafalgar, Malin amongst my favourites.
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Post by jesusmcmuffin on Jan 2, 2024 8:24:46 GMT
I always imagined Dogger was a load of boats parked up somewhere
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Post by chuffedstokie on Jan 2, 2024 8:26:20 GMT
I always imagined Dogger was a load of boats parked up somewhere That'll be Finistere most likely 🤔 |
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Post by raythesailor on Jan 2, 2024 8:57:08 GMT
Used to be and still occasionally am a regular listener.
Originally broadcast at ungodly hours unless you are a fisherman orsailor waiting for the tide. The most important one for many was at 0030 preceded By music entitled "Sailing By".
The music was so relaxing that many mariners often fell asleep and missed the forecast they had been waiting for all night.
My favourite phrase(probably because it was my cruising area) :Thames, Dover, Wight and Plymouth, including the Isles of Scilly. ☔⚓
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Post by JoeinOz on Jan 2, 2024 9:25:32 GMT
Used to be and still occasionally am a regular listener. Originally broadcast at ungodly hours unless you are a fisherman orsailor waiting for the tide. The most important one for many was at 0030 preceded By music entitled "Sailing By". The music was so relaxing that many mariners often fell asleep and missed the forecast they had been waiting for all night. My favourite phrase(probably because it was my cruising area) :Thames, Dover, Wight and Plymouth, including the Isles of Scilly. ☔⚓ Do they still play Sailing By? |
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Post by raythesailor on Jan 2, 2024 9:32:28 GMT
Used to be and still occasionally am a regular listener. Originally broadcast at ungodly hours unless you are a fisherman orsailor waiting for the tide. The most important one for many was at 0030 preceded By music entitled "Sailing By". The music was so relaxing that many mariners often fell asleep and missed the forecast they had been waiting for all night. My favourite phrase(probably because it was my cruising area) :Thames, Dover, Wight and Plymouth, including the Isles of Scilly. ☔⚓ Do they still play Sailing By? Not sure Joe as I rarely listen in at half past midnight Nowadays people just Google it or have apps on the phone. I still find looking up the shipping forecast can give me a good indication of the weather to come here in Mid Staffordshire.😀⚓ |
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Post by neckender78 on Jan 2, 2024 10:45:59 GMT
The whole of TMS and especially Jim Maxwell like this
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Post by ihaveadream on Jan 2, 2024 13:30:00 GMT
It used to be on radio 1 and 2 just before the top 20 on a Sunday.
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Post by marylandstoke on Jan 2, 2024 13:50:36 GMT
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Post by telfordstoke on Jan 2, 2024 19:46:52 GMT
Absolutely love the shipping forecast,very evocative of being a kid . I'm sure Harry Enfield ,back when he did Stavros, did a shopping forecast sketch in character as Stav.
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Post by OldStokie on Jan 2, 2024 20:28:31 GMT
When I was a kid it always started: "This is the BBC Home service. Here is the shipping forecast." Those areas were always a mystery to me but strangely, I always enjoyed listening to it.
OS.
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Post by Vadiation_Ribe on Jan 2, 2024 20:59:14 GMT
100 consecutive minutes of it here:
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Post by Goonie on Jan 3, 2024 8:18:41 GMT
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Post by raythesailor on Jan 3, 2024 9:14:14 GMT
Every word has specific meaning.
Imminent. Within six hrs
Soon. six to twelve hrs
Later more than twelve hrs Etc
If the channel light vessel is unmanned how do they know the Viz is twelve miles?
A fascinating broadcast.
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Post by mtrstudent on Jan 3, 2024 16:31:00 GMT
Oh that's real?
I thought it was made up for Kes.
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