Blue Sunray
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I'm sure I've seen that boat in OV recently, perhaps they were shooting another MDL video?
Bramble Bank strikes again
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benjenbav
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I'm glad you added 'relatively'. I was trying to be lighthearted but much of the buoyage around the entrance to Soton Water seems to require occasional straightening out and repainting to remove the scars of close encounters.
CHI
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Hi Markc
Yes , sorry . Mis read a post hence deleted original which was a bit harsh
Yes , sorry . Mis read a post hence deleted original which was a bit harsh
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Just_sayin'
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Thinking about it the QE2 got stuck on the bank back in 2008 and a car ferry was carelessly parked there more recently so you're not wrong :encouragement:
benjenbav
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It's pretty funny the idea of a ship full or cars being carelessly parked.
Separately, I hadn't realised there were any injuries to the people in the latest incident. Hope they're soon recovered and their boat fixed.
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Deleted User YDKXO
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Or even if they put a couple of buoys around it to warn people that would help
petem
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Testament to the quality of the boat if it didn't pull a shaft or bracket!
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I'd be surprised if the shaft was still straight after that, but yes, the hull has done well to remain watertight after such a high speed impact.
Also, I think the current colour coding of charts leaves something to be desired.
e.g.
On leaving Chichester Harbour on a low Spring Tide, you might think that the course following the black arrow was a reasonable one.
Sadly dropping in a couple of zoom levels shows some of those depths as "0.1", which is fine for a Hovercraft, but really quite unhelpful for a motorboat or sailing yacht.
What's even worse is that the bar keeps shifting. I was in an area where the charted depth was supposedly 2m+ - the depth alarm went off and I could see the pebbles scrolling past with maybe 1ft clearance.
Aiming to be maybe 50m East of the Bar Beacon and then heading roughly SSW to the outer marker seems to work most of the time.
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Good thing it wasnt a Pearl
mlines
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However the car transporter was different, it had other issues so was deliberately beached there
PilotWolf
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The mouth of the LA river has a big shallow area. The channel that the ferries use and past the marina is clearly marked. Just outside the channel are bouys with the words SHOAL yet pretty much every weekend there will be at least one boat aground past the bouys.
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benjenbav
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I'd be surprised if the shaft was still straight after that, but yes, the hull has done well to remain watertight after such a high speed impact.
Also, I think the current colour coding of charts leaves something to be desired.
e.g.
On leaving Chichester Harbour on a low Spring Tide, you might think that the course following the black arrow was a reasonable one.
Sadly dropping in a couple of zoom levels shows some of those depths as "0.1", which is fine for a Hovercraft, but really quite unhelpful for a motorboat or sailing yacht.
What's even worse is that the bar keeps shifting. I was in an area where the charted depth was supposedly 2m+ - the depth alarm went off and I could see the pebbles scrolling past with maybe 1ft clearance.
Aiming to be maybe 50m East of the Bar Beacon and then heading roughly SSW to the outer marker seems to work most of the time.
That's to teach you not to turn left out of Chichester. I think I did once in about 10 years of being based there.
VicS
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That's what they tried to pretend at the time but I think you will find that the vessel developed such a severe list during the turn round the Bramble Bank that steering and propulsion was lost resulting in the grounding .
The MAIB report makes interesting reading https://www.gov.uk/maib-reports/listing-flooding-and-grounding-of-vehicle-carrier-hoegh-osaka
benjenbav
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Yes, I recall the choices were beach it or turn over, and they wisely selected the lesser of two weevils.
Elessar
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Must have been a considered contingency plan made well in advance I reckon.
kashurst
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Blinking Fairline parts owner. Probably navigating with an AA road map.
many years ago, we did our first complex trip from York marina to Hull with 6 other boats. (don't underestimate it its a bu@@er -new charts get done every month for the humber estuary) any way, next day chatting in Hull Marina to one of the other boat owners who said they were off to France. Sounds exciting etc we said. Long story short they REALLY did plan to navigate to France with an AA Road map.
Longer story short about a month later they and the boat were on the local news - they managed to get stuck under Cawood bridge on a rising tide while returning to York. Fire brigade were called out. Fortunately with all the fire crew aboard and a few locals, minus the radar (sacrificed) they managed to pop out the other side before the tide overwhelmed it. Who said ditch crawling was boring
They seemed to have lost their initial enthusiasm and the boat was sold a few weeks later.
On the upside,you still don't need boat qualifications in the UK.
(edit if I have told this tale before please ignore it)
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Bigplumbs
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Did you read the article. People were hurt. Always pays to read something before you make comment. I see you realised later but you obviously did not originally read the article
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prv
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They didn’t “select” anything - the ship was heeled over so far the rudder was mostly out of the water and it screwed round out of control. It ended up where it did purely by chance.
The “deliberately beached” story was put out by the PR department before anyone really knew what had happened; since it was in the media along with the initial story it has stuck in a lot of people’s minds, but there’s not a shred of truth to it.
Pete
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Elessar
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and the tugs accidentally rammed it further up the bank too I guess.
