Maltese Falcon Takes A Hit
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Nick_H
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Surely it's the Maltese Falcon at fault here? The small yacht seems to be the stand on vessel? Did the small yacht alter course to cause the collision, or did the big one just assume they'd give way anyway?
I remember something about the "sailing rule" to do with being upwind or summit like that, but isn't that just for racing.
I remember something about the "sailing rule" to do with being upwind or summit like that, but isn't that just for racing.
Richard Shead
Slipped Anchor
There has been much debate about this but with MF sailing in the bay it would cast an impressive (and huge) site and certainly something you would go out of you way not to hit!
jfm
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Yup it was a few months ago. At moment of impact MF is port tack and windward boat, and the sloop is starboard tack and leeward boat. Prima facie MF is the give way vessel. But if you read the reports it appears the sloop, when she was leeward, tacked from port tack onto starboard. Indeed, in the first frame of that sequence she is on starboard tack. The sloop is generally judged by all the reporting on this to have been in the wrong therefore (correctly so, by the sound of it)
Sorry, I don't want to open a colregs thread. That's just a brief recollection of the reporting. There are millions of pages already written on this and the colregs aspects, all over the www! The crucuial point is that you can't judge right/wrong from the impact photos; rahter, you need to study the sloop's behaviour in the 5 minutes leading up to the prang
Sorry, I don't want to open a colregs thread. That's just a brief recollection of the reporting. There are millions of pages already written on this and the colregs aspects, all over the www! The crucuial point is that you can't judge right/wrong from the impact photos; rahter, you need to study the sloop's behaviour in the 5 minutes leading up to the prang
Major Catastrophe
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Interesting post from the photographer:
<span style="color:blue">"Okay...
reviewing my own pics, the smaller vessel did not round up. They tacked. I wasn't really paying attention to them much; l I knew they were there, they were close but all was well, then the all of a sudden here they come. It looked at first like they would be hit by MF, not the other way around. That would have made their day far worse. I couldn't believe what I was seeing. I just grabbed a camera and started shooting.
The smaller boat was on a starboard tack and MF was on port at the time of impact. I guess those dudes on the smaller boat just didn't see it. I really have no idea how else they could have put themselves there.
The smaller boat did not put down sails after the accident, either. They fled. First toward the Bay Bridge, then towards Richmond. It was 20 minutes before the Falcon caught up with the other vessel. They gave five blasts. The smaller boat held course under full sail still. That's when the CG arrived and told the other boat to take her sails down. They took it from there." </span>
Post #38 here.
<span style="color:blue">"Okay...
reviewing my own pics, the smaller vessel did not round up. They tacked. I wasn't really paying attention to them much; l I knew they were there, they were close but all was well, then the all of a sudden here they come. It looked at first like they would be hit by MF, not the other way around. That would have made their day far worse. I couldn't believe what I was seeing. I just grabbed a camera and started shooting.
The smaller boat was on a starboard tack and MF was on port at the time of impact. I guess those dudes on the smaller boat just didn't see it. I really have no idea how else they could have put themselves there.
The smaller boat did not put down sails after the accident, either. They fled. First toward the Bay Bridge, then towards Richmond. It was 20 minutes before the Falcon caught up with the other vessel. They gave five blasts. The smaller boat held course under full sail still. That's when the CG arrived and told the other boat to take her sails down. They took it from there." </span>
Post #38 here.