Haddock
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Thufferin' thuccotash - lighten up /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Hail Ellen - queen of the seas! May you strobe onwards and upwards....
Hail Ellen - queen of the seas! May you strobe onwards and upwards....
Strobe light?
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zefender
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You sure its actually a strobe and not just lots of erm cameras flashing?
jimi
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I actually have had experience of encountering a fast cat using a strobe at night .. it was mid channel on a thick F7ish night when MaidenII passed close by on its 24hour speed record a couple of years ago. I can honestly say that the strobe, whilst increasing its visibility, actually did nothing to help. It caused confusion and to be blatantly frank a vessel going that fast should be taking action to avoid slow moving objects anyway.
ianwright
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Being as keen as anyone to have the lastest go fast racing do-hickey, where can I buy a strobe light for the masthead on Patience?
Btw, didn't she do well...............!
IanW
Btw, didn't she do well...............!
IanW
CharlesM
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I think she has achieved an amazing thing...
BUT - the white flashing strobe really dissapointed me, and perhaps even angered me a little.
Charles
BUT - the white flashing strobe really dissapointed me, and perhaps even angered me a little.
Charles
peterb
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Take it from me - I have project managed the construction of new HSC to sail under British flags.
The following ex The Merchant Shipping (High Speed Craft) Regulations 2004.
(2) These Regulations do not apply to a high speed craft which is:
(a) a pleasure craft,
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The definition means that a vessel becomes a high speed craft when it is able to exceed the specified speed, whatever type of vessel it is (except hovercraft). But the SI specifies that the regulations are not to be applied if the HSC is a plesure craft. The SI's wording ("a high speed craft which is .... a plesure craft") surely means that pleasure craft can be HSCs, even if the regs don't apply?
For interest, the SI can be found here
Take it from me - I have project managed the construction of new HSC to sail under British flags.
The following ex The Merchant Shipping (High Speed Craft) Regulations 2004.
(2) These Regulations do not apply to a high speed craft which is:
(a) a pleasure craft,
[/ QUOTE ]
The definition means that a vessel becomes a high speed craft when it is able to exceed the specified speed, whatever type of vessel it is (except hovercraft). But the SI specifies that the regulations are not to be applied if the HSC is a plesure craft. The SI's wording ("a high speed craft which is .... a plesure craft") surely means that pleasure craft can be HSCs, even if the regs don't apply?
For interest, the SI can be found here
Ships_Cat
New member
I said HSC only applies to craft propelled by mechanical means and excludes pleasure vessels. I thought it was clear that my HSC reference was to the Merchant Shipping Regulation and to IMO HSC 2000 (the latter of which is actually usually just referred to as "HSC").
I did not imagine anyone would read it as if I thought the were no high speed pleasure craft? /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif
John
I did not imagine anyone would read it as if I thought the were no high speed pleasure craft? /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif
John
peterb
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OK John, but I didn't read it that way.
I've always been worried by that definition. You are quite right, it leaves it open to lots of funny vessels. I think that the Optimist dinghy just about falls inside it. That's why the SI has to put in all those exclusions.
I'm not sure about strobe lights. A few years ago Trinity House put an experimental buoy down outside Harwich. It had a xenon discharge flash light (every 10 sec?) instead of the more conventional lamp. Lovely, you could see it for miles. Only problem was that you couldn't get a bearing from it. Line up your hand bearing compass, wait for the flash, and "Oh s**t, it's further right". The light was never on long enough to read the compass. Still, I suppose the strobe lights have a more frequent flash.
I've always been worried by that definition. You are quite right, it leaves it open to lots of funny vessels. I think that the Optimist dinghy just about falls inside it. That's why the SI has to put in all those exclusions.
I'm not sure about strobe lights. A few years ago Trinity House put an experimental buoy down outside Harwich. It had a xenon discharge flash light (every 10 sec?) instead of the more conventional lamp. Lovely, you could see it for miles. Only problem was that you couldn't get a bearing from it. Line up your hand bearing compass, wait for the flash, and "Oh s**t, it's further right". The light was never on long enough to read the compass. Still, I suppose the strobe lights have a more frequent flash.
Ships_Cat
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I don't know if it is just me, but I also find strobes alot harder than conventional flashing lights to judge distance off at night.
Although I confess I find conventional ones a bit hard too, having aimed at the light on a known mark on very dark nights with nothing else to be seen and suddenly finding the pile, buoy or whatever right in front of the boat /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif.
John
Although I confess I find conventional ones a bit hard too, having aimed at the light on a known mark on very dark nights with nothing else to be seen and suddenly finding the pile, buoy or whatever right in front of the boat /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif.
John
peterb
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If I can see the reflection in the water then I'm too close.
jamesjermain
Active member
'Wooden craft of primitive build?' Where did that come from - dug-outs doing 30 knots with 300hp longtails?
I have an image now that I cant' shift, of a sort of Flintstones B&G with clinker hulls, raggy sails held aloft by a dinosausus and 'Wilma' grinding away on a stone winch (now that is an image best forgotten!)
I have an image now that I cant' shift, of a sort of Flintstones B&G with clinker hulls, raggy sails held aloft by a dinosausus and 'Wilma' grinding away on a stone winch (now that is an image best forgotten!)
