logging a passage plan

Petercatterall

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Just read the previous humerous thread on this subject but when is it sensible/resonable to log your plan with the CG?
A recent trip from the IOM seemed very straightforward but when crew got sick and weather turned worse than forcast I began to feel that it would have been a bit of a comfort to have logged our plan. What is the correct form on this please?
 

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Whenever you feel it warrants it really.

I travel a hundred miles or more on some trips, but just make sure I have a shore based contact to alert the coastguard with details if I don't log in on time. I do have a CG66 logged with coastguard, but don't feel it necessary to call them for most trips, as they won't do anything unless a shore based contact calls them to report you missing anyway - so why bother contacting them with trip details, if it depends on shore contact initiating search anyway?
 

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Can't speak for down on the Solent but up here on the Clyde the CG only too happy to take your TR. I sail single handed most of the time and even for a short hop of 15 miles across to Arran from Troon I will generally call the CG unless of course they are busy casualty working. This will not only give you a chance to confirm that your radio is working ok but will give the coastguard a heads up on your intentions, indeed if subsequently they may be able to utilise you if something should happen to any other vessel on your known intended track. I found in my Lifeboat career the VHF radio is without doubt the best safety aid you will ever own......and a little bit of practise in its use will give you more confidence to use it should it all turn pear shaped!!!

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I realise the CG don`t go looking for you unless the shore contact reports you overdue ( when they did a yacht safety info broadcast invaribly found the overdue yachtie in a pub in Cowes having given up on Cherbourg) but find it good RT practice and a more functional check of both set and operator to pass a TR for trips out of sight of land, i.e. cross chanel or cross Lyme bay for a South coast boat. Was ammused to hear the skipper of a 42 ft motor yacht spend a long time trying to send a TR on ch16 for a trip from Swanwick to Gosport! a bit OTT: a slight hint of sarcasm in the Cg reply: "have a save trip captain"!
 
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