Passage Planning - Is there a lawyer in the house?

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[Andrew_Fanner]

>>
They consider the Solent as stretching from the forts at Portsmouth to the Needles.
>>

So an overnighter from Chichester Harbour to Bembridge needs a plan?

"Water up enough to get out of Mill Rythe = enough water to get into Bembridge at the shallow bit on the bend. 'T'ain't raining or blowy and I've plenty of fuel"

 

[ChrisJ]

The following excerpt from the passage planning regulations seems to help explain that "little bump with an island" down near Australia:

>>>As a result of the review by the International Maritime
>>>Organisation, the new revised SOLAS chapter V now
>>>applies to “all ships on all voyages” except warships,