Recent content by Angele

Thank you. :encouragement:

Is there? Can you post a link to it, please? I've looked on the Jersey Harbours website and I can't see anything. I'm planning to head that way at the start of May, and want to keep an eye out in case it isn't back to normal by then.

+1. Exactly what I have too.

Sorry, but at no point have I suggested that yachts should take priority over the serving military in training. I am GENUINELY curious to understand why there. I should imagine that, 50 years ago, the spot would have seen many fewer boats at anchor than now. Also, is it genuinely a...

Just curious to understand why they choose that particular spot to do it in. Even midweek, Studland will have a few yachts at anchor. Why do they do it there and not somewhere that is not a recognised anchorage? Indeed, could they just do it in areas 2 and 3, neither of which comes close to...

.... only on Tuesday and Wednesday, and only if you feel like complying. Nope, nothing to do with seahorses. https://www.phc.co.uk/downloads/notices_mariners/2019-12-RM-Parachuting.pdf You can save money on a rigging inspection by asking one of the Marines to have a good look on the way down...

Same mind, but for different reasons. See below. Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on which way you look at it), I'm not going to be able to organise anything this year. I'm taking voluntary severance from my job, leaving around the end of June, and I plan to head off sailing for...

:encouragement:

Whilst I still maintain that all this is irrelevant (due to the fact that neither vessel noticed the other), let me try to clear the confusion. The Red Falcon is not restricted to staying within the channel. It wanted to turn to port in order to take the most direct route to Cowes, but there...

.... plus you can put the kettle on at the same time.

Although it could have been written with more clarity in the report, I think that is exactly what they were trying to do. They were in the channel, wanting to turn left onto 180 to go between North Thorn and Thorn Knoll SHMs and hence pass close to West Knoll. But the yacht was in the way, so...

+100. :encouragement:

Agreed. We can if we want to. It is just that I don't feel the need to point the finger at anyone. I enjoy reading MAIB reports, but not to come to a view as to whose fault it is, but rather as a learning experience and to understand whether there are things I could do to make my own boating...

They don't, and nor shall I.

... Maybe I should be quoting both of you, since you both seem to think that any COLREG rule (apart from 5 and 6) is relevant. But it is you who is laying far more blame on one party than the other (post 11) by an implied reference to Rule 13. Both failed in their obligations under rule 5...