Pots 30 nm offshore in 50 meters of water!

[oldmanofthehills]

I agree with Birdseye, my old stomping ground of the North Cornish and Devon coast was frightening at night, and we have needed assistance once and had more than a few scares even in daylight.

The South Cornish and Devon coasts are only rendered less frightening by the greater number of harbours or bays a semi crippled yacht might limp into and if worse come to worse, the greater number of lifeboat stations manned by folk with heavy rope cutters and towing facility.

I accept that leds are costly for the small timer and might have limited illumination life but proper flags in yellow orange or even black would do. and how about reflective strips?

Small garden canes with what seems like abandoned off-white underpants, by Padstow dont cut the mustard in terms of visibility

 

[Stemar]

Small garden canes with what seems like abandoned off-white underpants, by Padstow dont cut the mustard in terms of visibility

Better than the barely afloat oil canisters in a variety of shades of grey on offer in the Solent, though.

 

[oldmanofthehills]

A race to the bottom sadly. I will try and squeeze in a rope cutter behind my prop and maybe space my shaft coupler to get the spsce

 

[Sandy]

But as you know the Channel and the North Sea are noveau “seas” and mere slightly covered old land masses. Need to go North and West for proper seas.

Very novea seas, says retired engineer who has a keen interest in geology. Stepping off the continental shelf is an ambition for another year.

 

[capnsensible]

Very novea seas, says retired engineer who has a keen interest in geology. Stepping off the continental shelf is an ambition for another year.

You can find ODAS buoys way out in the oceans in more than 4000 metres of depth. As an engineer, you may well enjoy a bit of googling to find out how they use a system of floats vertically tethered to hold it in place.....within probably quite a big swinging radius. Found one once on passage from The Canaries to The Azores. Amazing.

 

[Habebty]

You can find ODAS buoys way out in the oceans in more than 4000 metres of depth. As an engineer, you may well enjoy a bit of googling to find out how they use a system of floats vertically tethered to hold it in place.....within probably quite a big swinging radius. Found one once on passage from The Canaries to The Azores. Amazing.

Yes, I can remember asking that very question about deep sea buoys on here a couple of years ago.
Back to pot markers…some even have AIS…

 

[fisherman]

Legal requirements

Marking of fishing gear, retrieval and notification of lost gear

 

[Leighb]

Legal requirements

Marking of fishing gear, retrieval and notification of lost gear

It appears that there is only a requirement to use marker buoys beyond the 12 mile limit, so all these infernal badly marked pots lurking near the coasts are all perfectly legal?

 

[oldmanofthehills]

It appears that there is only a requirement to use marker buoys beyond the 12 mile limit, so all these infernal badly marked pots lurking near the coasts are all perfectly legal?

I was struck by that too

 

[fisherman]

It appears that there is only a requirement to use marker buoys beyond the 12 mile limit, so all these infernal badly marked pots lurking near the coasts are all perfectly legal?

Except that they should be marked with PLN. Difficult for the hobby fisherman who isn't registered.

 

[fisherman]

I was once consulted about fitting radar reflectors to fishing gear. I was fishing amongst the shipping S and WSW of the Lizard, and I used to lose 100 ends a year cut off by ships, so not a bad idea if that could be improved.. I sent in a chart showing actual gear I knew about on a given day, by no means a complete picture. I pointed out that with my 24 ends, plus the two similar boats in the same area, plus the ends for the nets deployed each neap tide, a WO could find himself looking at 60 plus echoes in the four miles ahead of him during neaps or at slack water, plus all the small boats. It was decided that the danger would be that he could decide that many were fishing gear and ignore them, when some would be small boats with similar echoes, eg yachts heading for Scilly.
Would he run them down though, realistically? Having seen so many being just buoys might colour things.