Tomahawk
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How do you find out which company insures a ship? Whilst the harbour and pilots may want to ignore ships running aground and nearly hitting moored boats, I am not sure their underwriters would be so sanguine.
If you are quick you can still see the track on myshiptracking .comDoes anyone know how to get the past track (more than 24 hours) for a ship out of Marine Traffic?
The reason for asking is there was yet another near miss at Brightlingsea over the weekend. The 88m long MV Twisteden nearly took out the pontoons when swinging round. By all accounts she came to within a few yards of the moored boats. Hew bow wave swamped the pontoon.
This is the third near miss in 18 months.
From the Brightlingsea Spotted FB group from 2 days ago - a whole load of photo's by Tony Lopez - here's a few.
I think there was about 4m tide at the time - if she is 88m long there isn't much room to turn around... so the GPS position doesn't look unreasonable, making allowance for where the antenna might be positioned....To me that shows how unreliable the position data is due to errors and maybe the offsets not being correctly entered. Or did she run into the marsh?
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I don’t know the area but I wouldn’t be happy swinging my bow over there based On that chartlet.I think there was about 4m tide at the time - if she is 88m long there isn't much room to turn around... so the GPS position doesn't look unreasonable, making allowance for where the antenna might be positioned....
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Forgive my ignorance, but according to that track the ship has not turned round anywhere near the pontoons on the north shore. So if that is correct, what is the problem?
The flip side of the coin is of course "Have these instances of near misses with little or no evidence been invented by persons wanting the Marina plans to proceed, knowing that commercial traffic could potentially prevent this happening?"It's interesting that there have been accounts of so many near misses so recently yet no evidence. I wonder if they are being invented by people opposed by the proposed planning application for a marina there as mentioned by RivalRedwing? £2m Colne Marina plan for Brightlingsea proves controversial
Tomahawk - I have watched the videos and have to agree that it was a close'ish call, but as the Dancia Hav came clear of Cindrey they seemed to get her back under control quite quickly with judicious use of power and rudder...also it would seem that the camera operator zoomed in for 'dramatic effect' making the event appear much closer than it probably was.Cobra..
I can only report what I saw myself last summer when they broke the mooring line. And what I saw of the north bank of Cindry when the Dancia Hav reversed into it and got stuck leaving the bow to swing into the middle of the stream. Watch the video.
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They had to rely on a non certified vessel as a tug. Both events came close to loosing control and being serious accidents. Two near misses in two years is two too many.
That's appalling. Have the harbourmasters commented yet?
I bet the owner of the red yacht (an Etap?) will not be described as 'oddly silent' if and when he sees the picture....They seem oddly silent. If
Apparently they had yet another close call last week.