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Originally Posted by don1reed
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Originally Posted by nattydread
Get a merchant ship model, mounted it on a AoB card and practice at various angles.
Yeah, little specifics of a ship given to you on an ID chart at various AoBs help, but when it comes down to it, the similar shapes of merchants translates across the board for given AoBs
The big thing is the angles on the superstrutures and longitudinal(nose to tail) hull lines.
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...the above is exactly what, Dick "Killer" O'Kane, did when he was the XO of the WAHOO.
The crew rigged a ship model on a large relative compass card and, O'Kane, practiced getting the AOB by viewing the model through binoculars held backwards from across the wardroom. He got to where he was never more than 2° off.
(Saw this on a Historychannel VHS tape)
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Dicky was the greatest wasnt he?
If anyone wants to be a kick ass skipper you need to read up on O'kane, Morton, Fluckey and Calvert