Col regs made simple

[dylanwinter]

here is a bit of a treat for you col regs fanatics

the first 8 of 12 films about how not to bump into other boats



the others are on the PBO you tube space

click on the little TV symbol to watch the films on the pbo youtube space and the other 7 should appear in the right hand column

http://www.youtube.com/user/practicalboatowner

The expert is James Stevens - ex RYA chief examiner. I really like the way he occasionally starts imagining how the people in these near death experiences are feeling

it was great fun to do

the big little ships at Warsash are amazing


PBO's ColRegs made simple, in association with Navigators and General, is a series of videos to accompany the features in the July and Summer 2012 issues of PBO - on sale from 24th May. We went to the Warsash Maritime Academy's Ship Handling Centre with a fleet of model yachts, fishing vessels and motorboats to recreate some collision situations in miniature, with the Academy's scale fleet of supertankers. Ex-RYA Chief Examiner James Stevens was on hand to talk us through each situation as it developed.

 

[dharl]

Excellent Vids! Very informative. Thanks for posting

 

[RichardS]

Already, I'm confused.

Video No.2 - two sailing boats on a head on collision course.

The presenter states that the boat on port tack must give way and can turn down either the leeward or windward side of the stand on vessel on starboard tack.

My understanding was that any two vessels on a head on collision course should both turn to starboard to avoid a collision. Nothing to do with port or starboard tack and certainly no option for the give way vessel to turn to port!

Back to school for me, I guess!

Richard

 

[Pete R]

My understanding was that any two vessels on a head on collision course should both turn to starboard to avoid a collision.

Nah, that only applies to power vessels. The video is correct either side will do.

 

[dylanwinter]

I learned a lot too

Already, I'm confused.

Video No.2 - two sailing boats on a head on collision course.

The presenter states that the boat on port tack must give way and can turn down either the leeward or windward side of the stand on vessel on starboard tack.

My understanding was that any two vessels on a head on collision course should both turn to starboard to avoid a collision. Nothing to do with port or starboard tack and certainly no option for the give way vessel to turn to port!

Back to school for me, I guess!

Richard

I learned a lot about the col regs from making the films

and as you will see the next batch where we were using big ship models those guys have no scope for chan ging direction

and the day we shot it was an absolute hoot

we decided to kill most of the comments from the blokes handling the model boats

incidentally they race them in fleets of 25

and the bloke at the beginning of the film with the tanker is the National Champion

really, really skilfull

I found that I could sail one fairly accuratly when it was going away from me but once it started beating back towards where I was standing left and right got a bit confused

how they dom it in big fleets I have no idea

 

[T52REB]

interesting though

 

[RichardS]

Nah, that only applies to power vessels. The video is correct either side will do.

So much to learn, so little time left!

I'm going to watch the other videos tonight.

Richard

 

[dylanwinter]

I would love some feedback

So much to learn, so little time left!

I'm going to watch the other videos tonight.

Richard

when I heard we were going to do this with models I was wondering how it would look

- grown men talking about colliding model boats into each other

I was reminded of the Adams family



however, I think that as a way of illustrating collission scenarios it worked pretty well

Ideally you would use real boats and real freighters....

however, you tube provides most crashes



and it is worth knowing the rules

because



Dylan

seriously though chaps..... did it work?

 

[Flying Penguin]

Excellent Really good work, a refreshing alternative to staid diagrams and arrows

 

[Pete R]

seriously though chaps..... did it work?

For me it did but with anything to do with model boats the action happens too fast.
Have you tried slowing the film down?

 

[dylanwinter]

dead right

For me it did but with anything to do with model boats the action happens too fast.
Have you tried slowing the film down?

that is true

I did slow some of it down by 20 per cent

any more than that and it starts to look a bit weird

I have to say, in the real world when things start to happen everything seems to start speeding up

Dylan