AIS now primary collision avoidance tool - Radar and Visual second?

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lw395 said:
I've met a lot of services people. Many of them are idiots. They're trained to be.
As for Endurance, it was nearly lost in circumstances where according to wikipedia (to stick to polite versions in the public domain), 'clarity of engineering command had been lost'.
That's something I don't have on my CV.

Old failures from the senile service should STFU.
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Equally I have met many civilians and found many of them to be idiots too. Endurances problems were not a command or navigational problem rather an engineering excursion compounded by under staffing, probably as a result of government cuts so perhaps the ship is the fall guy as ever for political failings. The realities of life are that people make mistakes, for many reasons some avoidable some not.
 
Re the AIS part of the discussion, this from a friend who has just brought his 29' racer back from La Coruna, solo.....

.....The Vespermarine Watchmate is an awesome AIS and helped manage multiple collision avoidance, backed up by my million candle power spot to get ships to take avoiding action. Had to use VHF as well in three cases but all timely and not too stressful.....
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He's a bit 'hard core'.
 
'Twould seem that proliferation of AIS beacons is causing significant problems - and not just in Lake Solent....

https://gcaptain.com/ais-problems-revealed-in-east-china-sea/


Can we anticpate seeing the marking of all those pot-buoy ropes around e.g. Portland Bill sometime soon? :rolleyes:


Apropos the use of a BIG powerful spotlight to encourage some avoidance action, I carry in addition a powerful handheld strobe. This reflected off wet sails has been most effective in shooing off sleepy watchkeepers on several occasions, when nothing else was effective as an 'attention-getter'.
 
zoidberg said:
Re the friend who has just brought his 29' racer back from La Coruna, solo......
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.The Vespermarine Watchmate is an awesome AIS and helped manage multiple collision avoidance, backed up by my million candle power spot to get ships to take avoiding action. Had to use VHF as well in three cases but all timely and not too stressful.....
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What route did he take to encounter all these ships?
I normally return La Coruna - St Everet (Audierne) and hardly see a sign of any ships unless I range out the AIS to 50 odd miles and look to the West to see them funneling into the separation zone off Ouessant.
 
zoidberg said:
Re the AIS part of the discussion, this from a friend who has just brought his 29' racer back from La Coruna, solo.....

.....The Vespermarine Watchmate is an awesome AIS and helped manage multiple collision avoidance, backed up by my million candle power spot to get ships to take avoiding action. Had to use VHF as well in three cases but all timely and not too stressful.....
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He's a bit 'hard core'.
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This is my favourite screenshot from my Vesper display. Taken off the west coast of Jersey, heading for Corbiere Lighthouse. North up. I'm the dot in the centre of the concentric rings, heading in a south south easterly direction. The two vessels behind me within the six mile ring are the Granville and the Victor Hugo - both fast passenger ferries - also heading for Corbiere. And, if they miss me, then Condor's Liberation is lurking behind (but doing 35+ kts) to have another go....

:eek:

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Great piece of kit!
 
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