brianhumber
New member
Used the new arrangements over the weekend. Coming in was straight forward, kept the outer new red post on our port side and left the new ballast pole also to port. Quite a few boats leaving were deemed transgressors being pulled up by the patrol for not keeping the ballast pole on their port side as they left and for not hangin a sharp right to keep the new outer pole on their port side when leaving via the inner swashway.
However when leaving we kept this outer pole on starboard as we were proceeding straight out along to No4 bouy along with everybody else and were not hauled up so presumably this was correct. If we were supposed to hang a sharp left to pass this pole leaving it to port it would make this area a bit like the magic roundabouts in Swindon.
It will be interesting to see how everybody behaves on a big spring tide!!!.
However when leaving we kept this outer pole on starboard as we were proceeding straight out along to No4 bouy along with everybody else and were not hauled up so presumably this was correct. If we were supposed to hang a sharp left to pass this pole leaving it to port it would make this area a bit like the magic roundabouts in Swindon.
It will be interesting to see how everybody behaves on a big spring tide!!!.