Halcyon Yachts
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Helford passage is now only navigable to boats with a beam of 3 inches or less!
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Blueboatman
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Excellent.
Blurry wreckers at it agin eh? ( joking)
Maybe buoys get lonely too?
Blurry wreckers at it agin eh? ( joking)
Maybe buoys get lonely too?
Twister_Ken
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Opposites attract!
Greenheart
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Never the twain shall meet?
I reckon a foiling moth might have an entertaining attempt at getting through...
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I reckon a foiling moth might have an entertaining attempt at getting through...
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lw395
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Blueboatman
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If Moses was a sailor......
Joker
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Seen in Sweden:
onesea
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john_morris_uk
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I always treat buoys as advisory anyway. (A look at the chart will tell you which ones to take seriously as far as which side to pass.)
Before anyone jumps down my throat, you might be interested to know that I start to look VERY hard at the pilotage of YM candidates who religiously follow the buoyage designed for big ships. Up narrow channels its sometimes a different matter, but knowing when to pass a buoy 'correctly' and when you can safely pass it on either side seems to be a basic bit of seamanship or pilotage skill to me...
Before anyone jumps down my throat, you might be interested to know that I start to look VERY hard at the pilotage of YM candidates who religiously follow the buoyage designed for big ships. Up narrow channels its sometimes a different matter, but knowing when to pass a buoy 'correctly' and when you can safely pass it on either side seems to be a basic bit of seamanship or pilotage skill to me...
lpdsn
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Haven't you heard, they're phasing in US style bouyage, starting with some in Cornwall. That's just the transitionary stage.
lpdsn
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In Swedish waters those could be genuine
Often if you look around carefully in quite a few cases you might spot a series of little white posts that mark transits for repositioning the buoys, so you can confirm if it is in the right place
Wooden Boat Fittings
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I normally used to do this too. Then one day I cut inside a port-hand buoy by about 6' and wound up having to climb over the stern and push her off. Now i stick by the rules....
Mike
jimi
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Severs you right for sailing with your wife! They never know when to shut up!
Greenheart
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jimi
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Yowch! SWMBO can be disagreeable in the boat, but I hope she'd never sever me!
Suspect she just lets you get on with severing yourself ;-)
Greenheart
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Jimi, thou art cruel!
True, though...after midnight lately, I've found myself whittling away on something uncuttable with the razor-sharp craft knife, and suddenly thought...hang on...I've been here, before...
True, though...after midnight lately, I've found myself whittling away on something uncuttable with the razor-sharp craft knife, and suddenly thought...hang on...I've been here, before...
Frankie-H
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Well said John but do believe the channel marks in Holland. The withies are not for tacking round.
john_morris_uk
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I did suggest looking at the chart first.....
A1Sailor
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There was an incident many years ago (20?) when the Race Committee at West Highland Week used a Southerly Cardinal Mark south of Kerrera as a mark of the course. Unfortunately it had somehow drifted off station north a bit. The entire fleet rounded it, until some poor sod's keel fell off. Glug-glug oops...
Joker
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"n Swedish waters those could be genuine"
But in this case it wasn't.
But in this case it wasn't.
