The narrows require attention in a sailing boat (even the main route) because of the current. A very fast boat on the plane doesn't have to worry much about the current. However, it will need to keep within a very narrow path, probably 20-25 metres to avoid smashing into a buoy. A black boat doing it in poor visibility doesn't have much time to respond to a poorly lit vessel coming the other way.
Good point. I used to send positions from time to time a many years ago when I didn't have AIS. Friends and relatives could see where I was anchored. I can't remember the details as it was probably 7-8 years ago (or more). I think I had to register, possibly with vesselfinder and send SMS or emails in a particular format. It wouldn't be too complicated to draw a route, extract multiple waypoints and report them over about 34 minutes. You'd just send the correct location, time and speed to get it plotted on the web-site. Not certain why anyone would go to that much trouble. Unless they wanted to start a thread here and give people the chance to be outraged.
Were you replying to the previous post or another post. Your single word of ‘idiot’ is without reference.
Hence my question as I assumed the reference was to the previous post. My bad for missing Telepathy 101. ?
So you were all there, observing the conditions and circumstances? Did they have radar, image intensifiers, IR sights? We don’t know.
Very probably not but you never know.
I make a point of not 2nd guessing OPs unless I know them to be wrong. The OP specified that the vessel passed through the narrows at 45kts; anyone doing that speed through there is foolhardy and placing every other vessel in the vicinity at risk. Anyone doing so in the dark needs a wedgie from bob the dinosaur and their boating rights revoked. None of "radar, image intensifiers, IR sights" are capable of seeing through solid rock, so the risk of meeting a twit doing the same irresponsible speed in the opposite direction is non-zero. The comparison with driving a car is risible, as is the other whataboutery.
Touche (sorry, couldn't find the accented "e")
Perhaps that was the opinion of the helmsman of RHIB Seadogz too; he may go to gaol because of a similarly dismissive attitude to his responsibilities.
Said every motorist caught speeding ever and probably a good portion of those darwin award candidates who had trees leap out in front of them; familiarity does breed contempt. An experienced helm would know there's a speed restriction, why it's there and why it's inappropriate to break it; a more creative helm would go via Garroch Head if speed was important, it's a 25% shorter route.
It was near enough twilight, after local sunset plus overcast.
