RTIR - Time lapse film at the Needles...

[l'escargot]

...Well apart from a wreck marker buoy and / or giving the position, will anything prevent racing Lemmings from hitting it ?!

This might work:

 

[flaming]

Well apart from a wreck marker buoy and / or giving the position, will anything prevent racing Lemmings from hitting it ?!

Doubt it. As long as the wreck is still there people will hit it. Same as many come a cropper on Ryde sands every year. Not as if that isn't easy to see and well marked too!

What I don't get though is why that wreck hasn't ever been used as practice for the underwater demo guys that live in Portsmouth. One decent keel hit, especially with a modern high aspect ratio fin and bulb, and the insurance payout would be more than the cost of removing the whole lot. You'd have thought the insurance companies would have at least looked at it!

 

[benjenbav]

I've been inside, outside and hit it.

Even when you've been through before it can be really deceptive just how fast that tide runs. I'd been through the gap 3 times before we hit it. Overall I think the risks outweigh the potential gains unless you really think you're in with a shot of the overall race win.

And when they buoyed it with an inflatable mark clear of it to round as a mark of the course one year an early boat hit the mark and cut the anchor chain. The following boats had to chase the mark half way to Poole....

Mind you the later starters probably thought it was marking the Brambles.

 

[Twister_Ken]

Doubt it. As long as the wreck is still there people will hit it. Same as many come a cropper on Ryde sands every year. Not as if that isn't easy to see and well marked too!

What I don't get though is why that wreck hasn't ever been used as practice for the underwater demo guys that live in Portsmouth. One decent keel hit, especially with a modern high aspect ratio fin and bulb, and the insurance payout would be more than the cost of removing the whole lot. You'd have thought the insurance companies would have at least looked at it!

I'm sure there are 'important' species of sea life hiding in it. Maybe even seahorses! Shame on you for suggesting we blow them up.

 

[l'escargot]

Don't know what all the fuss is about, you can get 10 boats abreast through between Goose Rock and the Varvassi:

 

[Twister_Ken]

Don't know what all the fuss is about, you can get 10 boats abreast through between Goose Rock and the Varvassi:

And none of them appears to be in the position where the boat with the black kite came a cropper.