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**finknottle** · 04-05-12, 16:42

Also a very useful billet for laying ones hands on those excellent Vasco Notebooks.

**Jack M Snatchblock** · 04-05-12, 18:33

Originally Posted by tommo

Warfare Specs and Sea Specs are nav's yeo's.
As guns says no longer blue card. I miss those times when I did nav's yeo

Not heard of Warfare Specs and Sea Specs, I was a Nav Yeo (Non Blue card) as a Seaman RP2 and EW was in its infancy

**Kev73** · 11-05-12, 08:30

Originally Posted by Gombear

I believe this job still exists in the RN. I was wondering what branch Navigator’s Yeomen are taken from nowadays. It used to be from the Radar Plotters in the Seaman branch, and the course was taken at Dryad.
It was a specialisation in its own right and what you did in normal working hours.

Are Rotring technical pens with violet ink still used to do chart corrections? Come to think of it do you use charts or is it all on computer now?

Also what about star sights (not in the romantic sense) with the Navigating Officer does that happen or is it all GPS?

During a RAS or when SSD were closed up for entering harbour does the Nav’s Yeo still time and record orders and replies to and from the wheelhouse and engine room?

If you can find the time, I would appreciate some info from any serving Navigator’s Yeomen.

I was Nav Yeo on the Guernsey. We did our training at Mercury (my course was during the world cup '90 in Italy)

on the Guernsey the job was semi blue card... I had to keep watches at sea but when along side I only did duty if they were short (lads on leave etc)

you got to know most of the other NavYeo's and it was a good reason to have a few call rounds.

the Navi on the Guernsey was spot on... when along side in Rosyth, if i cracked out all my corrections (working extra hours) he would grant me extended weekends.