Additional things to keep a good lookout for....

[OGITD]

And I now have the story & location of the incident with the Drum .... must be a very well constructed Yacht! ....

But they can always give you a lift!

 

[capnsensible]

Yeah, picture 3....how I would have loved to have caught that trim, several feet of fin out of the water and absolutely no *******ing from the Man!!!!!!

 

[stuarta]

The last pic is a useful one for yachtsmen and small boat owners to study. Assuming the chaps (who don't normally like having their photo taken) standing on top of the fin are about 6' it demonstrates that a submarine at PD (Periscope Depth) will normally be able to pass directly under the keel of an average yacht (albeit it will be close). The dark part of the periscope is generally all that is above the water (if the trim is good!!).

If the periscope operator thinks there was any risk of hitting anything he simply lowers the mast (takes just a few seconds).

Something else to bearin mind is that if you are sailing/MoBo'ing in <100' of water you can pretty much guarantee that there won't be a submarine creeping around underneath you.

 

[Deleted member 36384]

I had the wee stick like one poke up about 100 m off the beam and the big one about 5 m directly astern looking straight at me. Both occurrences were during Perisher Week and just off the Holy Isle. Immediately after the wee one pokes up a frigate, some distance away towards Ailsa Craig, turned sharp, whined into life, and headed straight towards us with an ever increasing bow wave. The ping inside the hull of the yacht got louder and the frigate ended up doing a full 360 degrees around us. A bit later yellow smoke was seen on the surface some distance aft. The 1980s were interesting times on the Clyde, its all rather boring now. We would find all sorts of stuff floating about. The most interesting was a 4' (maybe 3' tube), 3" OD, white plastic, with orange caps (iirc) and an antenna attached to it — like a measuring tape. We fished it out the sea and handed it at Troon where someone from the Navy came and collected it. The Yanks used to stand on their fins either side of the sticky up bit, but the picture above looks far more impressive. I took my brother around the Holy Loch when the Yanks were unloading their Polaris Missiles - you could see the top of the missile just sticking out of the tube that they connected to the sub. The Police boat quietly grumbled just between us and the floating sub, no more than 100 m, as all these America soldiers stood staring at us with their rather big guns held across their chest. My brother was pooping himself. Great days! Up at Faslane I frequently sailed my dinghy quite close to the subs but when we got too close the Police boat always positioned itself between us and the subs. I have been photographed from helicopters, the SAS/SBS ribs and the Police Boats. It was no big deal, they knew who I was and where I came from, so I guess they tolerated me. I used to surf the tug bow waves at Rosneath as they hurried out to meet and escort the subs back in or out. If there were a few of us out sailing dinghies we would all swarm towards the tug and try and surf. I guess we were actually a pain but no one in authority ever said anything or complained.