Does anyone use an anchor ball?

[tcm]

Re: Really? smaller boats/smaller shapes?

Ooh there is no doubt about my lack of NUC lights etc etc.

BUT i see nowhere in the regs that permits smaller dayshapes for smaller vessels. An anchor ball is minimum 0.6metres and that's that, as far as I can make out.

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[MainlySteam]

Re: Really? smaller boats/smaller shapes?

Is (well I should say "was" but would not expect it to have changed) in Annex 1 (entitled something like "Sizes and something or anothers for day shapes and stuff") of the International Collision Regulations, but maybe your flag country's ones exclude that, which would be unusual I would have thought.

I am sure that you are in lots of good company with the lights!

John

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[peterb]

Re: Really? smaller boats/smaller shapes?

See my post of 28 August

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[MainlySteam]

Re: Really? smaller boats/smaller shapes?

Thats it, hadn't seen your post and was working from memory. Can add though that some countries do allow smaller flags than the 1 m one for dive vessels in their own rules/regulations though if that vessel is under a stated smaller size in the rule/regulations. However, I assume that the EU has been harmonised into the most inconvenient solution possible.

John

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[tcm]

Re: ok, peterb and mainlysteam

Right, so

1. over 20m LOA the figure of 0.6 m is a requirement anchorballwise.

2. diveboats (at least in France where i read the same in the regs) should be showing a flag or rigid structure of flag height 1m.



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[MainlySteam]

Re: ok, peterb and mainlysteam

1) Yes
2) If no local exemption for small dive vessels exists, then 1 m rigid flag it is. However, one would have to assume there is some sensible (informal?) acceptance of something smaller if diving from a smallish inflatable, for example. But I guess, in France, one would want that on an official piece of paper, and signed and stamped before relying on it.

John

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