Make your best guess

Day shape

While learning about day shapes, I have really come to realise that sometimes you have to make your best guess.

When I look at this picture, it reminds me that people get things wrong. I took this picture as I thought that I could use it in our lights and shapes quiz, it was only when I started compiling the quiz that I realised that this shape does not exist, so you simply have to make your best guess.

To make your best guess, you use other information that you can see, how is the boat moving, is there any other information that you can see. For example in this picture there is a diver down flag flying that has clearly seen better days, and if the two arrows were pointing outwards rather than inwards, then the shape would mean restricted manoeuvrability, so this was probably the intention.

Similarly with this picture, as the shape is on a small yacht rather than a fishing vessel, then the simple conclusion to make is that they are motoring and that they have put the day shape upside down rather than they are fishing with their gear outlying more than 150m

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The RNLI turned 200 years old on 4th March 2024. So as sailors and people who promote the joy of sailing, we thought that we would like to raise just £200. What we hope is that other people take up the shout and raise their own £200. In the last 200 years the RNLI have saved over 144,000 lives and yet they are funded entirely by people like you. They are not government funded.

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