Levington to Brightlingsea in one and a half Hours

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As the weather was so nice yesterday myself and a friend decided to go out in his Rib from Levington to Brightlingsea, Buy lunch and then come back again.

The weather treated us very well

Here is a little video I made of our trip.

 
I don't wish to appear rude, but your pal with the rib demonstrates at 04.35 why speedboats are often unpopular with yachts. Why didn't he give him a wider berth? There was hardly any wind and the considerable wake from the rib would have made things uncomfortable and, more importantly, shaken the wind out of his sails and possibly causing a gybe. We all have to share the water so manners can go a long way.

Was that Mike Tyrell sculling the dinghy?
 
Major_Clanger said:
I don't wish to appear rude, but your pal with the rib demonstrates at 04.35 why speedboats are often unpopular with yachts. Why didn't he give him a wider berth? There was hardly any wind and the considerable wake from the rib would have made things uncomfortable and, more importantly, shaken the wind out of his sails and possibly causing a gybe. We all have to share the water so manners can go a long way.

Was that Mike Tyrell sculling the dinghy?
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We were a massive distance away from the Yacht at 4.35 and on the open sea (I was zoomed in) This thread was not intended as a speedboat v yacht thread.

No that was not Mike Tyrell
 
Bigplumbs said:
As the weather was so nice yesterday myself and a friend decided to go out in his Rib from Levington to Brightlingsea, Buy lunch and then come back again.

The weather treated us very well

Here is a little video I made of our trip.

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Just be mindful of the harbour authority rules which very clearly state:

"Speed limits

The speed limit for power boats, cruisers, or yachts is 8 knots within Harwich Harbour, the River Stour and the Walton Backwaters. The limit is 6 knots within the River Orwell. Please avoid wash damage to the banks of the River Orwell."

You and your pal ( face visible at 2:46) are doing well in excess of 8 knots as you fly past that ship and the cranes on the way out.. Yes I know lots of other people do it too but uploading a video of the act.. well that's not so common and maybe not so smart..

Go steady...
 
ninjod said:
Just be mindful of the harbour authority rules which very clearly state:

"Speed limits

The speed limit for power boats, cruisers, or yachts is 8 knots within Harwich Harbour, the River Stour and the Walton Backwaters. The limit is 6 knots within the River Orwell. Please avoid wash damage to the banks of the River Orwell."

You and your pal ( face visible at 2:46) are doing well in excess of 8 knots as you fly past that ship and the cranes on the way out.. Yes I know lots of other people do it too but uploading a video of the act.. well that's not so common and maybe not so smart..

Go steady...
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Thanks for the advice I am sure us and others will consider what you say. Please tell me does the 6 knot limit apply to sail boats under sail as well, because of course they will go over this at full sail and I see very few trying to slow down to 6 knots
 
Bigplumbs said:
Thanks for the advice I am sure us and others will consider what you say. Please tell me does the 6 knot limit apply to sail boats under sail as well, because of course they will go over this at full sail and I see very few trying to slow down to 6 knots
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Yes it does apply to sailing boats. It applies to you as well. As does the 8 knot limit in the relevant places. As ninjod said - probably not so smart really...
 
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Did Levington to Brightlingsea just short of an hour once (but I wasn't paying for fuel!)

Hope the wallet was slightly kinder to you than the trip we had from the Ramsholt - Harwich via RIB on Saturday - Nasty chop.
 
I have known KK for some 50 odd years now and he still looks the same! I recall he and his Dad had bought their Dauntless up on Brightlingsea hard (probably 45 years back) on the same tide that my Dad and I bought our 26 footer onto the hard for scrubbing off...we were joined by a couple of fishing smacks on the same tide...the hard was rather crowded that morning!
 
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Bigplumbs said:
Thanks for the advice I am sure us and others will consider what you say. Please tell me does the 6 knot limit apply to sail boats under sail as well, because of course they will go over this at full sail and I see very few trying to slow down to 6 knots
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I wonder if this rather sour riposte is intended to include racing dinghys, foiling moths & windsurfers too?

Personally I'd far rather have ribs doing 22Kts (and making little or no wake at all) 100m from me even in the river, let alone at sea than have a bloody drone come ½ a mile from Levington direction and hover literally between my backstay and shrouds while snoozing in the cockpit at anchor. Whoever did that really was unspeakably irresponsible, antisocial intrusive and rude, leaving alone the legal aspects.
 
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Sea_Spray said:
Yes it does apply to sailing boats. It applies to you as well. As does the 8 knot limit in the relevant places. As ninjod said - probably not so smart really...
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Many thanks for your input. Very useful. Tell me have you ever done 30mph in a 30 limit
 
Old Bumbulum said:
I wonder if this rather sour riposte is intended to include racing dinghys, foiling moths & windsurfers too?

Personally I'd far rather have ribs doing 22Kts (and making little or no wake at all) 100m from me even in the river, let alone at sea than have a bloody drone come ½ a mile from Levington direction and hover literally between my backstay and shrouds while snoozing in the cockpit at anchor. Whoever did that really was unspeakably irresponsible, antisocial intrusive and rude, leaving alone the legal aspects.
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I am glad you understand about the lack of wash a Rib makes on the Plane. If a Drone pilot did as you say I agree they were being very irresponsible and that is indeed not acceptable in my book. I can assure you that is not the sort of flying I would do or indeed condone. Please don't tar all Drone pilots with the same brush (especially if it has been in the antifoul)
 
Drone pilots "with a right to fly" seem tho think they can do so as close as they like to others in open space (be they doing 30 Kts up the Wallet or on a mooring enjoying a bit of quiet contemplation in the cockpit.
Not so - have a look at https://bmfa.org/Info/Know-the-Law points 3 and 4 under Additional Laws applying to Small unmanned surveillance aircraft.
 
Tar all drone pilots with the same brush? I rather wish I could tar them with a load of #6 shot instead. I think all drone "pilots" (a pretentious misnomer for untrained, unlicensed purchasers) know full well what the rules are and far too many ignore them totally on the spurious justification of "I do because I can" and "there are too many rules and I can't be bothered with them"....Sound familiar?
It's just that drones, like jetskis and ribs seem to appeal to the less compliant antisocial members of our society who seem to need to express their non-compliance by irritating the #### out of the rest of us just because they can whilst being effectively impossible to identify.

They can be nasty, intrusive offensive and noisy, antisocial and sometimes hazardous like the imbecile that put his nosy-camera between my shrouds and backstay. Why shouldn't I tar them with the same brush? The only ones I've ever seen have all behaved like this.

And oddly they've all been on the Orwell/Stour
Nowhere else.
 
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WFA said:
Drone pilots "with a right to fly" seem tho think they can do so as close as they like to others in open space (be they doing 30 Kts up the Wallet or on a mooring enjoying a bit of quiet contemplation in the cockpit.
Not so - have a look at https://bmfa.org/Info/Know-the-Law points 3 and 4 under Additional Laws applying to Small unmanned surveillance aircraft.
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I am well aware of that thanks. Perhaps you should ask yourself what you do that either annoys others or is against some rule or another
 
Old Bumbulum said:
Tar all drone pilots with the same brush? I rather wish I could tar them with a load of #6 shot instead. I think all drone "pilots" (a pretentious misnomer for untrained, unlicensed purchasers) know full well what the rules are and far too many ignore them totally on the spurious justification of "I do because I can" and "there are too many rules and I can't be bothered with them"....Sound familiar?
It's just that drones, like jetskis and ribs seem to appeal to the less compliant antisocial members of our society who seem to need to express their non-compliance by irritating the #### out of the rest of us just because they can whilst being effectively impossible to identify.

They can be nasty, intrusive offensive and noisy, antisocial and sometimes hazardous like the imbecile that put his nosy-camera between my shrouds and backstay. Why shouldn't I tar them with the same brush? The only ones I've ever seen have all behaved like this.

And oddly they've all been on the Orwell/Stour
Nowhere else.
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And you think that shooting people with a shot gun is acceptable as you stated above. You are clearly an unbalanced, stupid horrible person.

I have thought about this further and taking account of the fact that your post contained threats of physical violence I am referring this matter to the Police. Your user name is most likely your boat name so you should not be too difficult for them to find.
 
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