There's six of the b*****

[chas]

Re: There\'s six of the b*****

My sympathy is with the RN, having experienced several situations where yotties have done some very strange things. Try bringing 360 odd feet of Her Majesty's property into Pompey during the mad season! One gets a lot of practice in explaining that steam does not always give way to sail in three words.

 

[Skyva_2]

Re: A sea change?

Yes, I have also noticed an increase in consideration from merchant ships this year. Quite disconcerting when you are poised to alter course, as as been necessary 100% in the past. I have also noticed this in fog, which is very reassuring. But I don't plan to rely on it.

Keith

 

[ParaHandy]

Re: There\'s six of the b*****

These days and it could be selective recall the number of ferries sounding 5 blasts might have diminshed in Portsmouth?........autumn and winter just gone one's day scrubbing and polishing would be interrupted many times. I hear more of the movement blasts eg port, starboard & astern. It could be the weather, of course, keeping everybody at home...

The RN do make a meal of it getting in to Portsmouth at times. P&O's finest just seem to get on with it. A friend who sails on the Clyde was quite impressed by the way everybody squeezes through without much drama.

 

[Guest]

Re: A sea change?

same experiences for me - and STILL the trawlers seem to be doing their damndest to run me down, except for one superb FRENCH trawler crew who at night signalled me in morse (by light) to let me know they were trawling.

Our worst was 12 ships to monitor at one time, and at no point did we feel in danger. At night, we had three ships come up our stern, maintaining a steady course perhaps 200 - 300 yards to our stardboard, then pass us neatly and purposefully before crossing our bows.

I have always maintained that steady helming by the sailing skipper, showing awareness of COLREGS, encourages ship's skippers to do likewise. Alternatively, if you make drastic actions when uncalled for, then then act accordingly (and hence, unpredictably).

Tense, but never scary was my experice this Summer so far.

Humperdinck

Email: HJ@Seacracker.org
Website: www.seacracker.org

 

[peterb]

Pair trawling

Interesting. As I remember it, the International Code signal for "I am taking part in pair trawling" is T, i.e. one dash. Is that what they signalled, or did they go through some sort of call-up first?