DAKA
Well-Known Member
My dad has given me an old book he used to learn how to sail from, I had a quick look through it and one passage amused me obviously irrelevant these days but it perhaps suggests that sailors of the past had a greater respect of shipping channels than some of the current breed of arrogant solent sailors (not all !)..................
<span style="color:red"> SHIPS
Ships are very large and often travelling very fast, so it makes sense to avoid a collision situation with one.
Far out to sea ships will normally give way to sailing boats but in confined waters they find evasive manoeuvres difficult and may be "restricted in their ability to manoeuvre".</span>
In years gone by when would the likes of Lord Nelson and Sir Robin Knox-Johnston have considered 'far out to sea' to start, not at Gilkicker point or Calshot spit I guess /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
<span style="color:red"> SHIPS
Ships are very large and often travelling very fast, so it makes sense to avoid a collision situation with one.
Far out to sea ships will normally give way to sailing boats but in confined waters they find evasive manoeuvres difficult and may be "restricted in their ability to manoeuvre".</span>
In years gone by when would the likes of Lord Nelson and Sir Robin Knox-Johnston have considered 'far out to sea' to start, not at Gilkicker point or Calshot spit I guess /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
