Medway boats damaged in fog 28/09/14

chrisbitz said:
wow! that's crazy - we went down to the end of the trot looking for any stragglers, and found none - Maybe it had been snagged and towed along with the dredger?
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Not sure but the source of the info might have got confused, about 2pm. Someone else told me they had found the boat but was light on the details.
 
xyachtdave said:
Not sure but the source of the info might have got confused, about 2pm. Someone else told me they had found the boat but was light on the details.
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There was slight confusion when it was thought that a boat was missing but she was safely moored slightly upstream of the major area of impact.
 
Those things have incredibly accurate positioning systems

They can locate each end of the ship to within a few feet. (needed to ensure they don't re-dredge some part of the seabed and pickup unwanted stuff etc. The fog is or should be of no consequence. They should be able to stick to their track without looking outside the bridge.
 
I was sleeping on my boat Saturday night just 1/2 mile downriver, the fog was amazingly thick that morning. Perhaps the skipper didn't see what had happened and in a nice warm bridge I bet he didn't hear anything either! It has always been my habit when sleeping aboard to keep my life jacket close to hand. Perhaps I need a hard hat as well!
 
Zubenali said:
I was sleeping on my boat Saturday night just 1/2 mile downriver, the fog was amazingly thick that morning. Perhaps the skipper didn't see what had happened and in a nice warm bridge I bet he didn't hear anything either! It has always been my habit when sleeping aboard to keep my life jacket close to hand. Perhaps I need a hard hat as well!
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I'm glad someone else was around then - I was asleep about 50-60ft from the first impact, and it woke me up, but could only see a silhouette of a dismasted yacht, and I agree it was incredibly thick, so much that I didn't feel safe going out in the club trotboat to investigate till 30 mins later! And I wouldn't call myself overly cautious or safety orientated ...
 
Medway Colin said:
There was slight confusion when it was thought that a boat was missing but she was safely moored slightly upstream of the major area of impact.
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Welcome to YBW Medway Colin!

I should have realised the info I was given regarding a missing boat was unconfirmed as (name changed to protect the innocent..) '50 knot Bob' told me.

Glad that's one less club member having to deal with the stress of dealing with the aftermath of this situation.
 
Unbelievable! As someone who had a mooring for some years and whose previous boat was clattered by a breakaway yacht from down river I have some sympathy with those on the receiving end of the news. Good job that not more people were sleeping aboard.

Strange that the hulls seem in better nick than the rigging in most of the pics. Perhaps the dredger had some gear sticking out higher up that caught shrouds as it passed?

What with the terrible fatal accident off Harwich earlier in the year.. what is it with dredgers?
 
sailorman said:
So Dick stole your photo, Tut tut. Report him for bad form
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He doesn't need your permission...



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Marmalade said:
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Strange that the hulls seem in better nick than the rigging in most of the pics. Perhaps the dredger had some gear sticking out higher up that caught shrouds as it passed?

What with the terrible fatal accident off Harwich earlier in the year.. what is it with dredgers?
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She has a discharde conveyor on the Stb side that should be stowed when under passage. It is about 20 m long so it could take out all the rigging without touching any hull. But you would have to ask.. WTF is someone doing leaving it sticking out?
 
Tomahawk said:
She has a discharde conveyor on the Stb side that should be stowed when under passage. It is about 20 m long so it could take out all the rigging without touching any hull. But you would have to ask.. WTF is someone doing leaving it sticking out?
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Would it not have been her port side that did the damage?

There is enough overhang on her bow and stern to dismast yachts, although at this stage we don't really know what damage there is to the internals of the yachts, so difficult to assess contact yet.

The bow overhangs, but trying to get back out of the line of moorings the stern will have plowed further into the moorings, which also overhangs. With the additional problem if being on an outside bend meant that once the first contact was made, it would have been a tricky task to get back out again. Tide can be quite punchy as well round there, and could have been significant compared with the relatively low ship's speed.

I notice that she, unusually, had taken on a pilot. How do the responsibilities between pilot and master work out in a situation like this?
 
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