RTIR collision help please

[Chrissie]

The Island sailing club should hold a list of retiree times, and as someone else mentioned you can narrow it down to who might have been on thatr stretch of water at the same time as you. Put pictures of the bit they left behind on here, someone might identify the make, or have seen a boat with similar damage.

Good luck, its awful when someone does a runner, knowing that they must have known you were at risk of sinking. Chrissie

 

[yoda]

They might have been in as much trouble as you were, and by the time they'd got themselves sorted, you'd been lost to sight. Any reports to the ISC? Worth asking now the dust has settled, coz I suspect the committee might have had a heavy workload yesterday.

I agree with you and had hoped they may have reported it to the ISC but to date nothing reported.

 

[Wansworth]

Are boats entering the racew required to have third party?

 

[yoda]

Sorry to hear your news and see the damage.

It seems like there were quite a few collisions out there yesterday. To help anyone who might have seen your colision, it might help to have some more details of your boat, and the approximate position and time if you know, so if people were around that area at that time they might remember seeing a damaged boat limp back.

You might get lucky if they had a GPS tracker.

Fingers Xed for you

Snooks

Fair point, I was an 0720 start and the collision occoured at about 0800. I was on the mainland side of the solent and had passed to the west of a very large blue yacht that was moving slowly east. My boat is a White Pioneer 9 that has the distinctive coachroof like a Coontessa 26. The sail number is 2285 without any numerals and was on both sides of the cockpit in 12 inch numerals.

yoda

 

[yoda]

Name the boat

Below are a couple of pictures of the stem head fitting left inside my boat in the collision. All the advice is very helpful and I am already onto a lot of the ideas. If anybody can name the type of boat this fitting comes from.............. My memory is not great but I just have the feeling it may be a french make of yacht possibly about 8-12 years old. Then again I could be completely wrong. The only other thing I know is that he broke or lost his Danbuoy (as my boom took it out in the resulting mele).

 

[yoda]

Looks nasty, I'm guessing it will be an insurance claim.

If you need several quotes then feel free to use our site...

Hope you have some luck finding the culprit, although I have usually found there is little compensation even if you were stand-on vessel.

Might be best to hand it to your insurer to fight out for you.

Dave

Without a doubt an insurance job, boat was lifted out by 1030 to prevent it sinking and I only have the very highest praise for Deacons who responded with the very best possible help at the drop of a hat. While the repair will run to several thousand it looks containable within the total boat value (just). Had she not been built so well I hate to think what would have happened.

Yoda

 

[sailorman]

Dave

Without a doubt an insurance job, boat was lifted out by 1030 to prevent it sinking and I only have the very highest praise for Deacons who responded with the very best possible help at the drop of a hat. While the repair will run to several thousand it looks containable within the total boat value (just). Had she not been built so well I hate to think what would have happened.

Yoda

she is one strong boat, no Ali stem fitting on there then

 

[Pete7]

2 minutes and 9 seconds, large blue yacht?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/sailing/13919983.stm

Couple of other videos on the JP Morgan website.

Pete

 

[Doug_Stormforce]

Tracker

Dont know if this is any use to you

http://www.roundtheisland.org.uk/we...e=std&override=&section=live&page=gpstracking

 

[Searush]

I guess it's too late to offer you a bin liner & a roll of gaffer tape?


Sorry, it's only a tease, I wish you better luck with the remedy than you have had with the race & do try to smile if you can.

 

[Madhatter]

Dare I say this ?

Please don't take me wrong here - but weren't you racing ?
Is sailing the only racing sport that can claim off another entrant for an accident ?
Its not that I don't feel for you but in the years that I did various motor sports I never heard of anyone claiming off another competitor it was just an accepted hazard of the sport .

 

[Flying Penguin]

Please don't take me wrong here - but weren't you racing ?
Is sailing the only racing sport that can claim off another entrant for an accident ?
Its not that I don't feel for you but in the years that I did various motor sports I never heard of anyone claiming off another competitor it was just an accepted hazard of the sport .

Well given every mention of an incident over the weekend (this one aside) seems to involve the swapping of insurance details, it would appear so...

Jamie

 

[Madhatter]

Well given every mention of an incident over the weekend (this one aside) seems to involve the swapping of insurance details, it would appear so...

Jamie

With due respect that was not my point, my point was is racing sailing craft the only racing sport that can claim of another entrant ?

Oops just read your post again - seems you sort of said yes

 

[Flying Penguin]

Oops just read your post again - seems you sort of said yes

Well unless you saw any non racing collision threads

 

[sailorman]

Below are a couple of pictures of the stem head fitting left inside my boat in the collision. All the advice is very helpful and I am already onto a lot of the ideas. If anybody can name the type of boat this fitting comes from.............. My memory is not great but I just have the feeling it may be a french make of yacht possibly about 8-12 years old. Then again I could be completely wrong. The only other thing I know is that he broke or lost his Danbuoy (as my boom took it out in the resulting mele).

Etap use a lot of Aluminum castings

 

[TimG]

Best of luck

Yoda,

Hope you manage to track them down. Let me know if you need any help with anything.

Cheers

 

[yachtvenus]

Sorry to hear about the damage, glad you and the crew are all safe - there was a blue yacht (sorry no name) with a damaged pulpit missing a PORT bow lens moored at the folly on the Cowes pontoon end of 3rd raft north. One of the crew was attempting to remove the Pulpit with a junior hacksaw....

 

[snooks]

Please don't take me wrong here - but weren't you racing ?
Is sailing the only racing sport that can claim off another entrant for an accident ?

But isn't sailing the only form of competitive sport that uses nature as it's form of propulsion where you race something twice the size, which can cost 10 times as much on the same course at the same time?

 

[Poignard]

Please don't take me wrong here - but weren't you racing ?
Is sailing the only racing sport that can claim off another entrant for an accident ?
Its not that I don't feel for you but in the years that I did various motor sports I never heard of anyone claiming off another competitor it was just an accepted hazard of the sport .

That's an interesting point. Worth a thread of its own, I would think.

 

[Malabar]

The other yacht is in clear breach of a legal requirement to stop and exchange details and not to proceed until it is clear that assistance is not required.
United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) requires the master of any ship involved in a collision to stand by and offer assistance to the other vessel:
Article 98 - Duty to render assistance

....(c) after a collision, to render assistance to the other ship, its crew and
its passengers and, where possible, to inform the other ship of the
name of his own ship, its port of registry and the nearest port at which
it will call.