Koeketiene
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He has a very long car bonnet & is well under it, just his feet sticking out over the radiator cap
Maybe I should not have advised first-timers to not over-think it.
Blackwater to Oostende
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Maybe I should not have advised first-timers to not over-think it.
CliveG
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Bru
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So we really are advocating ignoring the legal requirement to cross a TSS on a heading at 90 degrees to the traffic?
I am truly astounded!
I am truly astounded!
Koeketiene
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Phoenix of Hamble
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I had a Hitatchi RDF.... god knows how many hours I spent listening for that bloody tone!
Koeketiene
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'To the traffic'!!!
Adjust your course if and when you encounter traffic.
I do realise that a first crossing can be daunting (I nearly shat myself first time round), but in the end there really isn't that much to it.
I am really impressed by your preparations/calculations - better than anything I have ever produced.
However, I have seen similar work before - peeps who had conscientiously prepared for every eventuality they could think of.
And then, something they didn't think of happened and it all came apart at the seams.
Military axiom: no battle plan survives first contact with the enemy.
It is - IMHO - far better to have a rough plan (we're going that way) and then adapt to the circumstances as they present themselves.
Make it up as you go along sort of thing.
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Phoenix of Hamble
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To be honest, you'll probably alter course in the TSS at least once to avoid something, so even if you want to, you'll not cross at right angles to the traffic.
Bru
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Point of order - I am in no way daunted by the crossing.
Colregs Rule 10c is quite specific and it's not optional. Ignore it at your peril
"(c) A vessel shall, so far as practicable, avoid crossing traffic lanes but if obliged to do so shall cross on a heading as nearly as practicable at right angles to the general direction of traffic flow."
You can read the regs from cover to cover and nowhere does it say that the rules can be ignored because you might have to alter course anyway or because it makes passage planning a bit more complicated
Nor does it say anywhere in the colregs that they only apply when there happens to be ships about nor that they can be ignored if there's nobody looking
I remain genuinely astonished
Colregs Rule 10c is quite specific and it's not optional. Ignore it at your peril
"(c) A vessel shall, so far as practicable, avoid crossing traffic lanes but if obliged to do so shall cross on a heading as nearly as practicable at right angles to the general direction of traffic flow."
You can read the regs from cover to cover and nowhere does it say that the rules can be ignored because you might have to alter course anyway or because it makes passage planning a bit more complicated
Nor does it say anywhere in the colregs that they only apply when there happens to be ships about nor that they can be ignored if there's nobody looking
I remain genuinely astonished
MoodySabre
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its going to get crowded in the naughty boys corner
sailorman
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when we first did it we couldnt afford a copy of the col regs
Bru, often there is very little traffic on the inshore lanes & the s/w inshore lane is 2.5 miles wide after that you are going with the flow for under 2 mls ( assuming you pitch up between the garden city & the Twin). The only planning i do prior to setting off, is to mark up my Admiralty tidal atlas for each hour, this gives me the off-set for my assumed arrival timings.
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johnalison
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I'm with Erbas on this one. Maybe it's because I've got a class B AIS. I haven't actually done this crossing since the TSS was set up as we now tend to go Harwich-Blankenberg, which avoids most of the problem.
Phoenix of Hamble
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I must admit, I try to cross them correctly too...
Koeketiene
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I try to too - when there is traffic.
If there isn't any traffic a TSS is just a set of arbitrary lines on a chart.
Hypothesis:
You're driving a car in the middle of the desert.
There is no-one/nothing around as far as the eye can see.
All of a sudden, you come to a traffic light.
It's on red.
Do you stop?
Yes/No
If you answer 'Yes' to the above, you will never get where I'm coming from.
Nothing wrong with that - just a different mindset. That's all.
The world would be a poorer place if we were all the same.
Bru
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Hypothesis
The Sheikh who lords it over that area of desert decrees that anyone running a red light will be kicked repeatedly in the nadgers by his evil henchman and then be forced to ride home on a camel*
Your call
* sometimes my latent nasty streak surpasses itself
The Sheikh who lords it over that area of desert decrees that anyone running a red light will be kicked repeatedly in the nadgers by his evil henchman and then be forced to ride home on a camel*
Your call
* sometimes my latent nasty streak surpasses itself
Koeketiene
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Hypothesis
The Sheikh who lords it over that area of desert decrees that anyone running a red light will be kicked repeatedly in the nadgers by his evil henchman and then be forced to ride home on a camel*
Your call
* sometimes my latent nasty streak surpasses itself
Your sheik and his evil henchmen would have to catch me first.
Chances of this happening: negligible.
Bru
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It's a bit like speeding I guess.
If everyone is doing 80 on the motorway it must be OK to do 80.
Until the day they plant a hidden speed camera on the motorway and nick ' em by the score
One day someone will get prosecuted for disobeying rule 10 in the Sunk TSS. Actually, I think it's already happened to Frenchman. OK, IIRC he'd already blown through the Dover Straits TSS going the wrong way which was really dumb but he got done for the Sunk as well ISTR
Bru
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A thought to go to sleep on...
Clearly we'll never all agree on this (certainly not in public anyway!) but I must say that it's a pleasure to debate an issue over 95 posts with a healthy smattering of humour, some judicious urine extraction and nary a cross word
Gotta love the ECF!
Night all
Clearly we'll never all agree on this (certainly not in public anyway!) but I must say that it's a pleasure to debate an issue over 95 posts with a healthy smattering of humour, some judicious urine extraction and nary a cross word
Gotta love the ECF!
Night all
Pleinair
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My goodness, Bru. actually going to bed and signing off in a nice polite manner, you're losing your touch old chap.
Athene V30
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I have had naval training.
Not sure where I stand on this one - I had the naval training, did it for a bit then got out. Does that mean I have a brain!
Maybe not as I would have retired on a pretty good pension by now!
Koeketiene
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These days, the 'pretty good' pension is all the motivation I need.
One year, eleven months and five days to go. :encouragement:
2125 working hours to be exact (25 84 hour shifts).
Not that I'm counting.
