very small ship ahoy
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Cliveshep
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Makes a lot of sense, there's no end of space on a Tesco plastic 1-child inflatable to fit EPIRB, VHF, flares, radar reflector, AIS, navigation lights, anchor light, anchor and chain rode, plus mark the ships name, port of registration, SSR number.
What a load of tossers!
What a load of tossers!
TargaLout
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Can anyone recommend a good RYA approved lilo handling school with an ICC at the end of it? Or "Offshore Lilo level 2" course.
Firefly625
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don't joke... there's a business idea there!!!
sarabande
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does this mean that robos when racing have to obey Colregs.... ?
epervier
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on a more serious note and relevant to the subject of responsibility,on our return from Swanage at the weekend, the conditions had changed somewhat over the course of the afternoon and became a bit of a roller coaster ride (pun intended) which followed through in to the solent making it a little rough well beyond Hurst,
but we are now happily banging a gong on a chest of a slave, sorry wrong song,banging along at 3000rpm maybe 22-24 knots, and in the mid channel are 3 canoes, one of which is capsized and former occupant hanging onto the bow of another, by the way these guys were not youngsters they were well into adulthood dare I say middle aged indeed,
I slowed and stayed on station until these guys got the third canoe across their's and turned upside down and emptied and the swimmer got back into his canoe and they set off in the direction of Lymington we carried on up the Solent, what's the point of all this rambling, I hear you ask,
well, thinking about it more deeply when at work, it frightened me, in as much as if it had been an hour later,in dusk light, you're chasing home to get moored up, what if you don't see these three little silhouettes in the water and mow them down like grass? It scares me because who's fault will it be, not the bloody canoeists
but we are now happily banging a gong on a chest of a slave, sorry wrong song,banging along at 3000rpm maybe 22-24 knots, and in the mid channel are 3 canoes, one of which is capsized and former occupant hanging onto the bow of another, by the way these guys were not youngsters they were well into adulthood dare I say middle aged indeed,
I slowed and stayed on station until these guys got the third canoe across their's and turned upside down and emptied and the swimmer got back into his canoe and they set off in the direction of Lymington we carried on up the Solent, what's the point of all this rambling, I hear you ask,
well, thinking about it more deeply when at work, it frightened me, in as much as if it had been an hour later,in dusk light, you're chasing home to get moored up, what if you don't see these three little silhouettes in the water and mow them down like grass? It scares me because who's fault will it be, not the bloody canoeists
AndieMac
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A point well made...... the 'ocean' going canoes, (more so their operators) are a popular toy globally, and seem to be getting themselves into more trouble than the early explorers.
I think we lose one every 6 months or so, taking on deep sea voyages.
Probably won't be long until they achieve the same status as groups of cyclists on the roads?