Superyacht crashes into jet skis

Two and a half weeks for it to hit the news? Must be more to it than the info which has just been relayed by the 'victim' and not the other party.

And the ski was broken in half???

It will be interesting to see the full details as to what actually happened.
 
How can you sit in the way of a 'super yacht' on 3 separate jetski's that can shift off the mark to 45 knots in a handful of seconds. Yep, there must be more to this, although can't find anything on the web or Solent CG twitter feed.

 
That’s a shockingly poorly written story. It’s like I’m reading the news written by a thirteen year old for a school newspaper.
 
I boat in the Solent a fair bit, and I can’t remember the last time I saw a ‘super yacht’. Leander was in Gunwharf once, but that was probably 10 years ago.
 
The news is terrible at relaying what really happened and often spin their own version.
I would imagine it could have happened in the main channel between the two forts and the current runs at fair speed.
The "superyacht" (probably a 12m mobo) may have seen the jetskis as moving and they could have been the give way vessels?
I often sail past the fort and there is always a large amount of vessels fishing while drifting through the channel to fight your way through.
 
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A very badly written article and it would indeed be interesting to know what actually happened. Just love the description of the three jet skis being ‘parked’ whilst they had a chat. Presumably ‘parking’ a jet ski obviates the requirement to keep a proper lookout ;)
 
There are far too few details to really pass any meaningful comment on this.

However, I have had the scenario when a Princess/Fairline 60 (or very similar) turned at a channel marker so as to put his boat and my boat on a collision course. In this instance I had right of way but I quickly realised his boat was on autopilot and that he probably didn't care as to the position of his boat, relative to mine.

I corrected course as to avoid a collision, we passed relatively closely. He was doing about 20-25 knots, I was doing 30 knots. I gave him my 'royal wave'....

The point I'm making is that there are some relatively big boats, travelling relatively fast, on autopilot, where the skipper isn't really keeping a proper look out or aware of basic Colregs.

FWIW, my incident happened on Sunday 13th September, about 6 miles from the reported incident.
 
I well remember the time I was heading towards the Swellies from Bangor, doing about 15 knots. I was passed by a gaggle of PWCs travelling about 10 knots or so more than me. No problems with that and they headed off down toward the Menai Bridge. They were by then about 75m ahead of me, when they stopped. Dead. To have a chat and cup of tea. In the middle of the channel. The looks they gave me as I changed course to miss them by a few metres was classic: they had no, absolutely no sense of awareness of other vessels.
Having moved over to a sailing boat, encounters of that type are a thing of the past but I’ve seen no improvement in the overall skill levels of PWC drivers.
 
jeanne said:
I believe that a UK court has defined PWC's as 'toys', and as such, they are not subject to the collision regs, any more than roller skates are subject to traffic laws.
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Try roller skating down the middle of the highstreet and see how long it takes before you get nicked though.
 
jeanne said:
I believe that a UK court has defined PWC's as 'toys', and as such, they are not subject to the collision regs, any more than roller skates are subject to traffic laws.
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Surely a bicycle is technically a 'toy' (in that it requires no registration, licence or any other legalese of a road vehicle), but you are still supposed to stop at red lights.
 
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