Graham376
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Yacht v aircraft carrier - AirCraft Carrier Crashes Into Sailing Yacht - HOW??? - YouTube
Is this happening a lot?If the many snoozy frigates getting run over recently proves anything, it's don't assume any of the thousand or so people on any grey funnel ship is actually keeping a seamanlike watch.
Good lord, I hope I never have to sit in any of Mr Mortlock's lectures as the sound of me snoring at the back might be a tad off putting. Almost 15 mins to explain something that usually takes 30 seconds.Yacht v aircraft carrier - AirCraft Carrier Crashes Into Sailing Yacht - HOW??? - YouTube
More like a quarter of that, on a frigate at any rate.Is this happening a lot?
Do warships really have a thousand people on board?
Wowser.
The big US floating airfields can have five times that.More like a quarter of that, on a frigate at any rate.
Almost 15 mins to explain something that usually takes 30 seconds.
I agree. The constant references to ‘right of way’ in the video (and the comments) was almost as annoying as his pedantic slow delivery with assumptions piled on assumptions.Goodness. I gave up after 5 minutes. How can someone possibly take themselves so seriously and what is going on with those glasses? As ProMariner points out…that’s a big leap from “engaged in a training op” to “displaying RAM signals”. Plus he did use “Right of Way” rather a lot. Honestly I tried watching it all to see if it all made sense in the end but it was just too annoying. My but there is a lot of **** on YouTube.
Not in my experience. I follow a couple of pilots and greatly enjoy bigclivedotcom's breakdown of all stuff electronic.About par for the course on YouTube.
Not in my experience. I follow a couple of pilots and greatly enjoy bigclivedotcom's breakdown of all stuff electronic.
About par for the course on YouTube.
I have always found that 'the big stuff' has taken avoiding action well before you are aware of them! One Manhattan (MMSI 431260000) snuck up behind me just after sunrise on a slate grey, late August morning when crossing the Thames Estuary in Black Deep Passage. I turned round and there she was about 3 NM off my port transom. I 'activated her track' on AIS in the space of 10 mins it was clear that she had put in 2° turn to port, she past and then put a 3° degree turn to get back on track. I held my course and speed as I was the vessel being overtaken.Obviously not aimed at experienced mariners, but, I had occasion to attend an IN lecture at Warsash about the subject (collisions avoidance not failing to collide with aircraft carriers. The lecture was BIG on how inert large ships were and how difficult it is for them to deviate from their course. We yachts were advised to take action when the commercial vessel was at least 5 miles away. I remarked that my sailing vessel had a max speed of 6 knots on a good day under favourable conditions. most of the commercial vessels I came across were plowing their furrows at 20+ knots. From my cockpit, I would be unable to ascertain whether we were on a collision course when the commercial vessel was 5 miles away and what with all the deck lights at night I had enough trouble identifying the basic navigation lights without any of the others. For me, avoiding action was usually taken when the commercial vessel was less than a mile away and my preferred method was to turn away from the approaching bows and re-trace my steps. I was told that had the commercial vessel been taking avoiding action by changing course to go round my stern, this would have been a bad manoeuvre and I should have maintained a parallel course. Either way it represents a sphincter tightening situation.
This is fine and dandy on a modern 50'er with all the modern electronic bells and whistles but on a small yacht you really are at the mercy of providence and good seamanship.
PS I have been passed by a coaster in the early hours where the only body visible on the bridge was a large Dog.
I thought he put it over very well. It wasn't aimed at the legal pedants of this forum who read the Colregs for their personal gratification and excitement , it was aimed at Joe Public. He spoke very clearly, and precisely to help the many people who would watch it who are not lucky enough to have English as first language. Remember that those people are fluent in at least one other language, that's one more than most on this forum.Yacht v aircraft carrier - AirCraft Carrier Crashes Into Sailing Yacht - HOW??? - YouTube
When single handing, certainly if there is traffic around, the autopilot is always on the helm and the skipper is navigating and doing sail trim. Navigation role includes checking AIS, and Radar if in fog.AIS and/or Radar are only any good if you can keep a watch on it. This isn't possible when single handing when even if the screen is on deck, the Yachtsman has many other calls on his/her/its/their (pick the pronoun of choice) attention. I don't have AIS myself so I don't know if you can have audible or on-screen warning of the potential of standing into danger but I have been crew on boats when someone has been able to continuously monitor traffic on AIS and in these cases it seemed to be a valuable addition.