Maydays this weekend.

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Had a good time sailing last w/e. Especially Saturday, good wind and weather.

However, the CG was kept busy by a number of calls - (why there were so many I don't know).

There was a Mayday call froma yacht, holed in a collision with another, near Eagle (which I took to be the Eagle nr Colne Bar).

Another yacht had an injured skipper and was monitored back to Levington

Another (american) placed a mayday call. Situation described as under sail but not making way. (Puzzled by that, surely they weren't just becalmed).

Then there was a call to the CG from a yacht that had heard a morse SOS signal on Ch. 16. The CG was as puzzled about thas as I am. How and why does someone signal SOS on ch16.

Plus a number of others stuck on the mud etc.
 
Yeah, I was interested in the collision which Clacton LB was tasked to, but there's nothing on there web site or RNLI... I've heard more Mayday's this season than I've heard total before, and many of them "real"... There was a lady spearated from capsized dingy back of Osea a couple of weeks ago...
 
I also heard the mayday at the Bench head and responded but was twenty minutes away. The wind farm boat called that he was only ten minuets away so I slowed down but some friends were closer and stood by until Clacton ILB arrived,
What concerned me was out of twenty + boats a lot closer than me only two other boats responded. The boat that t.boned him as far as I can make out carried on sailing into the Blackwater, passing me shortly after and did not contact the Coast guard until I told him the Coastguard had been trying to contact him.
The damaged boat was split from deck to waterline,the owner who was single handed did well to get to Brightlingsea without sinking, mainly by keeping it on starboard tack.
 
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