Another Channel Island hazard :)

There was a consultation exercise a few months ago, majority of boaters I know have expressed reservations

I have seen seaplanes and boats working well in shared space in the Bahamas and USVI

The Russsell is big enough but the small roads in jersey is a much tighter spot, so we'll see

There is a demand for it but the route is currently tightly controlled and damned expensive
 
That's a seriously modified De Havilland Single Otter...It's so easy to get to the airport on either island I can't see any point in using seaplanes except for the novelty factor, in which case why fly a route? Amphibians are much more expensive to run than the land-based version and only make sense if you are removing a nightmare drive through city traffic to an airport for a large part of your customer base or you are operating somewhere where there's water but no strip to land on. Any sea of much more than a metre will cause problems for them too so I'd expect quite a few cancellations.
 
Another journalistic triumph! Caption it as a ‘Single Otter’ (which IS planned for the route I was told in Guernsey last week) and include a photo of a ‘Twin Otter’. It’s not difficult is it???
 
Goldie said:
Another journalistic triumph! Caption it as a ‘Single Otter’ (which IS planned for the route I was told in Guernsey last week) and include a photo of a ‘Twin Otter’. It’s not difficult is it???
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Par for the course these days.
 
Will be fun meeting that coming out of the harbour on the way in. Will it start taking off as soon as it leaves the harbour entrance. Only wants half a dozen boats circling waiting to enter & it will be real fun. Have to brush up on the colregs-- --Do they apply? never had to consider it before--------Rights of way when yacht meets sea plane. How do they apply when the floats actually leave the water?What about lights. What about when fog suddenly comes down? Will my AIS work with sea plane maneuvering on the water?
 
Daydream believer said:
Will be fun meeting that coming out of the harbour on the way in. Will it start taking off as soon as it leaves the harbour entrance. Only wants half a dozen boats circling waiting to enter & it will be real fun. Have to brush up on the colregs-- --Do they apply? never had to consider it before--------Rights of way when yacht meets sea plane. How do they apply when the floats actually leave the water?What about lights. What about when fog suddenly comes down? Will my AIS work with sea plane maneuvering on the water?
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Easy compared to a marina in Croatia where the route out from it to sea is used by firefighting planes to fly low and scoop up water. They fly straight at you below mast level then up over your mast shedding water like, well like chucking a hundred buckets of water on you. Or come up behind you and do the same. They seem to manage ok - I've never met anybody who has actually been hit by one of the planes.
 
Yes! just- very briefly -checked colregs & they do apply, generally as if the sea plane is a powered vessel restricted in ability to maneuver.
Lights to be as near as possible to powered vessel although not necessarily exactly the same due to constructional difficulties it would seem- that could be confusing. Still not sure about what happens once floats leave water though.
 
Cancellations will be frequent, I'd guess. I think it's probably aimed at tourists, to encourage them to spend a day in another island. Perhaps it will appeal to the Cruise Ship passengers. I give it one season.
 
Whatever happened to the seaplanes that were supposed to operate out of Corfu. I saw notices on the charts to avoid the area when they were operating but didn't see any and there is nothing about Hellenic Seaplanes online other than plenty of "coming soon" posts.
 
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