sailorman
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MoBos dont need a cone unless they have a steadying sail, as you well know Major
Do you use a motor cone when motor sailing?
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MoBos dont need a cone unless they have a steadying sail, as you well know Major
Kilter
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MoBos dont need a cone unless they have a steadying sail, as you well know Major
Anyway that's only a canal beside a council estate!
Woodlouse
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So if i'm motor sailing with a mackerel line trailing out the back should I have a motoring cone up or the correct fishing symbols in place?
Also, who has the correct day shapes onboard for constrained by draught. aground and not under command? Not to mention a diamond just in case you happen to take someone under tow?
Also, who has the correct day shapes onboard for constrained by draught. aground and not under command? Not to mention a diamond just in case you happen to take someone under tow?
sailorman
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Robin
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timbartlett
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(1)If you are trailing a mackerel line you are not a "vessel engaged in fishing" as defined in the "Definitions" section of the colregs, so you should not show fishing shapes
(2) The Constrained by Draught shape is optional, not compulsory, so you can do without it
(4) It is highly unlikely that you will decide, on the spur of the moment, to set up a tow that is over 200m long, so you do not need a diamond. If, by any chance, you have so much rope on board that the tow is over 200m long, I would suggest shortening the rope.
The tricky one is (3) -- the two black balls required for NUC. The best I can suggest is "improvise" -- a couple of black bin-bags stuffed with pillows or sleeping bags, perhaps? But I think the sight of a yacht aground is pretty unmistakeable: it's probably one of the day shapes that you least need to worry about.
The colregs are primarily about preventing collisions -- their role in apportioning blame comes only after human beings have failed to apply them intelligently (or have chosen to misapply them stupidly)
dt4134
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I have to admit that I did consider splashing out five or six quid on another anchor ball so I could rig up the NUC day shapes after having the experience of motoring back through a dinghy fleet with jury-rigged steering.
Not sure if they have known what they meant though. I think it was mainly a beginners class.
Not sure if they have known what they meant though. I think it was mainly a beginners class.
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DogWatch
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Yes!
4 feathers on nylon line with spark plug keeping them down is just the same as a mile and a half of 16mm wire with 6 tonnes of gear dragging on the bottom, you should always assert YOUR right of way, use it or lose it
Kilter
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capt_courageous
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What's a Tilley hat ? Pictures please.
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Major Catastrophe
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MoBos dont need a cone unless they have a steadying sail, as you well know Major
Just for that, and Kilters rudeness, I am going to buy a MacGregor 26 and terrorise the Strait at 30 knots with the raggie things and a motoring cone up.
sailorman
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Stout Fellow Major
Stout Fellow
Stout Fellow
Robin
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Well when the elephant ate the first one, I couldn't hang around waiting for it to emerge the other end so I bought another. Then the first returned a bit smelly, but the wash it in the dishwasher trick cured that, so that made two.
Then they brought out a lighter weight one,so I just had to have one of those.
Seriously though, with my hair 'style' ( I have a #2) I need to keep the sun off and the Tilley (hat not lamp) does that very well and never blows off, though until I found the dishwasher trick you wouldn't think so..
oldsaltoz
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Don't even own one.
sailorman
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Kilter
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Kilter
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toad_oftoadhall
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Whatever else happens; no matter what the future holds. Unemployment, divorce, illness, depression. Whatever bitter turns my life takes. In my deepest despair. In my darkest moments...
...Forever more I can console myself with the thought that there was one person worse off than me. There was that bloke in 2009 who actually spent time photographing boats that annoyed him by motoring by without their cone up!
Only half joking.
Major Catastrophe
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Oh, so you've decided to come and harass me on this thread now, when I am having a bit of banter with friends.
You really need to grow up a little.
And I am not joking at all.
