Colregs, Three longish blasts?
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peggyt1243
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"Sounding three short blasts indicates that the vessel’s engines are
going astern (in reverse)."
Four seconds is a short blast. A long blast is more like 7 or 8 seconds. Most ships leave the dock by reversing with the bow lines still attached. A ship is manouvered using the engines rather than the wheel. Perhaps downriver, the ship was positioning to get around a bend.
NormanS
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prv
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How does that work? Do they take the dock with them?
Maybe dragging it behind them is why they took three years to get here?
Pete
jerrytug
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Hello Peggy welcome to the forum.
Allow me to contradict your very first post
and refer you to Rule 32 Definitions:(b) The term short blast means a blast of about one second's duration.
(c) " " long " " " " " from four to six seconds' duration.
I have manouvered a motley selection of smallish ships without thrusters, and believe me the rudder was essential!
Cheers Jerry
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Capt Popeye
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Ahh, just perhaps as Ships leaving a port might be under the jurisdiction of local Harbour Regs and not necessarily COLREGS which are, as the name suggests (states) Collision Regulations at SEA, and as we all know a Port is usually not in a Sea.
Yes, great to see or really hear a bit of 'friendly' chat from Ships in port, especially as a recognition of 'friendship' and 'comradeship' between 'seafarers' . Experiences from 'yesteryears' show that there was usually quite a bit of contact /communication between Ships and Commercial Vessels whilst in a Dock area, shown by way of soundings on the Horn.
jac
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So where do these examples fit under col regs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhwSoF-BGYE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhwSoF-BGYE
jerrytug
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Yes, when I brought up in the sixties near Greenwich, there were still plenty of ships properly sounding their horns in bad viz, plus presumably giving manouvering signals etc when in sight of one another, and on New Years Eve at midnight they all used to go bananas, rattling the windows!
jerrytug
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Rule 98, Under all circumstances and in the prevailing economic conditions, and as ordered by the marketing department, each vessel shall give the punters their money's worth.
Capt Popeye
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Great great great, its all 'showmanship' you know, rather like the offer to 'take drinks with the Captain' for 'certain class passengers', Walt Disney would be amazed
peggyt1243
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How does that work? Do they take the dock with them?
LOL. Guess I should have said the bow lines are the last to be released after the stern of the ship is out from the dock.
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Maybe dragging it behind them is why they took three years to get here?
LOL
peggyt1243
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My father was the captain of a freighter. Engines were used to manouvre in tight areas. I am sure you are well aware that a ship can pivot in one place using just engines. My father retired some over 30 years ago and there were no bow thrusters and no joysticks.
dslittle
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Coming into St Helier the other day one of the fast cats was departing. I stayed to starboard of it (going across it's bow would have been interesting...) and it gave three long blasts. Reading the above makes me feel pleased (didn't see anyone in the water and it carried on)
Bilgediver
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It is a tradition that many ships uphold and especially the big passenger ships that they give three long blasts as they head to sea. . This has nothing to do with Colregs and is a message of appreciation for the hospitality received in port. I love it when I hear the passenger ships do it. Cargo ships I sailed on reserved this gesture for those ports that deserved it where it was appreciated by those for whom it was intended. Common courtesy and nothing to do with going astern
peggyt1243
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It is a tradition that many ships uphold and especially the big passenger ships that they give three long blasts as they head to sea. . This has nothing to do with Colregs and is a message of appreciation for the hospitality received in port. I love it when I hear the passenger ships do it. Cargo ships I sailed on reserved this gesture for those ports that deserved it where it was appreciated by those for whom it was intended. Common courtesy and nothing to do with going astern
http://www.cevni.info/sounds.pdf A 1 second blast is a very short blast. Check the pictoral description at the link.
snowleopard
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Morse Oscar ( _ _ _ ), international code for MOB.
Heckler
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One did 5 blasts to me a while back, think he was saying taraa!
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DaveRo
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I was watching a programme on PBS yesterday about the covert recovery of a Russian nuclear sub in 1974. The recovery ship had pulled the sub off the seabed and it was suspended underneath the ship, out of range of conventional divers, while they waited for the accompanying Russian spyship to clear off. Luckily, before the weather worsened, the Russians 'sailed by, gave three hoots - the maritime signal for goodbye - and disappeared'. The Americans quickly reeled the sub in.
Interesting story - repeated in the next few days:
http://pbsamerica.co.uk/azorian
Interesting story - repeated in the next few days:
http://pbsamerica.co.uk/azorian
peggyt1243
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It is a tradition that many ships uphold and especially the big passenger ships that they give three long blasts as they head to sea. . This has nothing to do with Colregs and is a message of appreciation for the hospitality received in port. I love it when I hear the passenger ships do it. Cargo ships I sailed on reserved this gesture for those ports that deserved it where it was appreciated by those for whom it was intended. Common courtesy and nothing to do with going astern
Actually the website is Australian.