The MCA is planning on scaling back the number of marine offices.

[chanelyacht]

Of course I know what SIMS is. It's a computer game that each crew member can play with instead of keeping a watch out for the people in distress.

Thus demonstrating perfectly you don't know what it is or how it works, and what modern SAR response is all about.

But then again, you've never planned, coordinated, or responded to an incident or been on an exercise, have you?

 

[Sybarite]

Thus demonstrating perfectly you don't know what it is or how it works, and what modern SAR response is all about.

But then again, you've never planned, coordinated, or responded to an incident or been on an exercise, have you?

Irony isn't your thing is it?

 

[dogleg]

Irony isn't your thing is it?

Irony or not was that comment necessary?

Still to keep you happy here are links to 2015 accounts etc

https://www.rnli.org/aboutus/aboutthernli/Pages/announcements-stories/Announcing-our-AGM-2016.aspx

 

[chanelyacht]

Irony or not was that comment necessary?

It's par for the course, when he's shown to know nothing, he resorts to that sort of thing.

Never mind the insult that RNLI crews "play computer games instead of looking out for those in distress".

We had four French crew on an RNLI boat the other month, the unanimous verdict was they would love SIMS, SARIS, and the safety levels offered on the Tamar we were on.

The French do not have bad boats, but they are about 20 years behind in many aspects.

 

[dogleg]

It's par for the course, when he's shown to know nothing, he resorts to that sort of thing.

Never mind the insult that RNLI crews "play computer games instead of looking out for those in distress".

We had four French crew on an RNLI boat the other month, the unanimous verdict was they would love SIMS, SARIS, and the safety levels offered on the Tamar we were on.

The French do not have bad boats, but they are about 20 years behind in many aspects.

the French ALB I went on a few years back was comparable to the Tyne which were superb boats in their day.

 

[chanelyacht]

the French ALB I went on a few years back was comparable to the Tyne which were superb boats in their day.

I started on a Tyne, they were (still are) great sea boats and the kit for its time was cutting edge. The Merseys are OK, but suffer from the shortened Tyne hull. The old Aruns were bitches for rolling in a beam sea though, whereas the Tyne just punched through anything.

But the Tamar, and latterly the Shannon...well, just incredible.

 

[Sybarite]

the French ALB I went on a few years back was comparable to the Tyne which were superb boats in their day.

Much slower than the new AWB I understand with a top speed of about 18knts. However according to a lifeboatman it had a range of 450 nm.

 

[Sybarite]

. The French do not have bad boats, but they are about 20 years behind in many aspects.

Here is how the SNSM technical director describes the new AWB :

"Prévu pour un équipage de 8 marins, il pourra accueillir jusqu’à 40 passagers, avec 15 places assises et deux espaces dédiés aux civières. « La taille de ce nouveau bateau n’est pas fondamentalement différente de celle des précédents canots tous temps. Mais il constitue une mise à niveau avec les dernières règles et normes de construction. Nous avons insisté dès sa conception sur la protection et l’amélioration des conditions d’intervention des sauveteurs. La sécurité, les conditions de vie à bord, ainsi que les capacités d’accueil de naufragés sont renforcées. De même, il dispose d’équipements modernes, en particulier l’électronique pour la détection et la navigation. Avec ce canot tous temps de nouvelle génération, nous donnons aux sauveteurs les moyens de réussir leurs missions en limitant les risques au maximum », explique Christian Helou, directeur technique de la SNSM. Ce dernier souligne par ailleurs que le CTT NG répond aux dernières normes environnementales, notamment en matière de rejets gazeux, et dispose d’un système de retraitement des eaux de cale."

Sounds rather like your spec for the Shannon.

 

[dom]

Here is how the SNSM technical director describes the new AWB :

"Prévu pour un équipage de 8 marins, il pourra accueillir..."

Sounds rather like your spec for the Shannon.

I feel for you Sybarite. You know I learnt a few weeks ago that "Coke is it!"

Next I discovered that "A Mars a day helps you work rest and play!"

So I went on a dentists' forum to set them straight.

They first thought I was joking...

...now they're turning nasty.

Oooh I hate dentists!

 

[chanelyacht]

Sounds rather like your spec for the Shannon.

What, no computer games? Oh, and no beach launch either.

But the point is the spec you quote is new for the SNSM. For the RNLI, it's been around since the Tamar, and arguably since the Severn and Trent even earlier.

Like I said, 20 years behind. No disrespect to them for that, it's just where they happen to be.

 

[Sybarite]

.....still waiting for an answer to the first question about the boat he highlighed being self righting or not.

Just on this specific point :

Vedette de 2e classe de Fouesnant

Ces bateaux de 9 à 12 mètres, insubmersibles (avec une forte capacité d'autoredressabilité pour les « V2 NG ») sont propulsés par hydrojets.....

I interpret this as meaning that they are self-righting but they are not officially homologated as such. But I might be wrong. I had a look at the Fouesnant boat today and it looks a very solid piece of equipment. It even had two radars.

 

[chanelyacht]

It even had two radars.

Ha, typical SNSM, platinum plating everything and duplicating cost. The RNLI work with one radar, it is disgraceful that the French state-funded service squanders public money to such extent. Perhaps they should look to how Poole do things?

 

[jordanbasset]

Ha, typical SNSM, platinum plating everything and duplicating cost. The RNLI work with one radar, it is disgraceful that the French state-funded service squanders public money to such extent. Perhaps they should look to how Poole do things?