KHM ignoring danger to boats

[Elessar]

Could you not have tied it to that sea wall with some old rope

I had no rope but I had a mobile phone.
I considered going to get some but there was nothing nearby to secure it to.
So short answer “no”

 

[Bigplumbs]

I had no rope but I had a mobile phone.
I considered going to get some but there was nothing nearby to secure it to.
So short answer “no”

Understandable but just a thought

 

[Croftie]

Wonder what the outcome would be if there was a nasty accident and MAIB were involved. Evidence emerged that KHM had been notified and did nothing.

 

[SC35]

Wonder what the outcome would be if there was a nasty accident and MAIB were involved. Evidence emerged that KHM had been notified and did nothing.

Most likely someone would get promoted.

 

[stelican]

Similar experience in Southampton Water many years ago.

We slowed to a stop heading back to Marchwood. After a bit of cutting, I freed the prop and pulled about 30 foot of fishing net from the water.

Similar type to this picture..
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Seemed very slow back to the mooring where I found a further tight football sized clump around the prop.

I called Southampton Harbour Master expecting that I'd be able to drop the discarded net off at their office... no such luck... I said to them that I felt like throwing it back in to where it came from (since I was still on board with it) ... they just couldn't accept it.

Next best plan was to use it as a boat cover to keep the birds off because it was heavy/quality.

It ended up going to the tip in carrier bags over a number of weeks..

(I thought it looked too much like a fishing net to use as a bird scarer!)

I would hope that these days they would have taken it off my hands.

Should have poked it up the fisherman's aft end