'Straighten up and fly right'

[zoidberg]

So what lights and shapes should this rig display? ColRegs or ICAO....?

Knowing the Solent Sailing Suppositories, all of them....

 

[scotty123]

So what lights and shapes should this rig display? ColRegs or ICAO....?

Knowing the Solent Sailing Suppositories, all of them....

Quick flashing yellow.

 

[ProDave]

That'll never reach take off speed.

 

[laika]

Thanks to this post and my tendency to get easily distracted by the Interweb I now know the lengths of several of the world's longest aircraft...

 

[armchairsailor]

Straightforward “vessel under tow” innit?

 

[grumpy_o_g]

That'll never reach take off speed.

All covered if you know your colregs, etc. properly. Clearly a Class A WIGE or GEV http://www.imo.org/en/OurWork/safety/regulations/pages/wig.aspx

 

[scotty123]

All covered if you know your colregs, etc. properly. Clearly a Class A WIGE or GEV http://www.imo.org/en/OurWork/safety/regulations/pages/wig.aspx

So what lights?
Assume it come under same regs as hovercraft, hydroplane, submarine, so flashing yellow.

 

[capnsensible]

It doesn't need lights. It's daytime........

 

[sarabande]

Shapes ?

 

[dslittle]

Shapes ?

It looks like a big aeroplane to me

 

[Old Bumbulum]

Very shortly all it'll need is code flag Alpha.

 

[capnsensible]

It looks like a big aeroplane to me

:nonchalance:

 

[capnsensible]

Very shortly all it'll need is code flag Alpha.

When someone suggested that they put a reef in, they meant it!

 

[scotty123]

It doesn't need lights. It's daytime........

Cowes ferry does, even in daytime.

 

[capnsensible]

Cowes ferry does, even in daytime.

Most ferries do. And cruise ships.

 

[lw395]

So what lights?
Assume it come under same regs as hovercraft, hydroplane, submarine, so flashing yellow.

No lights needed, it's day light.

 

[capnsensible]

No lights needed, it's day light.

If scotty thanks you now, I get a lakesailor!

 

[zoidberg]

No lights needed, it's day light.

You may thank me, 'lw395', for setting that up for you.

Reminds me of the tale told of the old Newlyn fishing boat skipper who, on being promoted to Relief Cox'n of The Boat, had to go up to Lunnun for his Board of Trade Exam. He duly put on his fresh-laundered Sunday shirt, clean pants, boots and his brother's jacket, took the steam train to Plymouth then on to the capital city, and presented himself to the 'Lords Commissioners' Committee' for examination in Seamanship.

He endured the ordeal of the oak-paneled Lights Room, and progressed to the 'viva voce' examination by those very august and intimidating Master Mariners and Elder Brethren. He stumbled through the various searching questions on The ColRegs, Passing and Managing a Tow, and Responsibilities of a Master, and finally the most Senior of the Examination Panel asked him....

"Tell me, my good man, what's the best light in the English Channel?"

The rough old Cornish seaman scratched himself, shuffled from foot to foot, and answered "Well, sor, I reckons that be daylight, sor...."