walking on water?

[Happy1]

Well when I was on my trip yesterday I saw 4 seagulls standing up in the middle of the main shipping channel on the Thames!!! I asked my son who was driving how they could do that, he told me it was log, sure enough as we passed we could see the very large log. Goodness knows what could have happened if we hit that at 23knts!! All thanks to the seagulls warning us, thanks seagulls, I'm here to see another fine day boating.

P.S. Sid! I may be interested in next weekend, where do you find out about parking?

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[DavidJ]

This is why autopilots worry me.

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[hlb]

This is why I like auto pilots. I can look where I'm going all the time and not look at compass, plotter or other.

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[DavidJ]

Not making a point to you directly Happy, but I guess these things should be reported to the coastguard. I notice in the Med that reports are coming up daily on Navtex of floating hazards and their positions although we are talking semi-submerged containers and the hulls of half sunken yachts.
David

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[DavidJ]

Good point
David

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[byron]

<font color=blue>Wait until you see a Torpedo floating nose cone up in a shipping lane (as I have) then you will realise just how important it is to keep a lookout at all times.

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[Confused]

Yep

I did my bit for care in the community the other day, as picked up a thick 4 ' long plank complete with nails sticking out of it from the mouth of Hamble river

Its one thing avoiding it yourself, but if you can actually remove , even better

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[duncan]

Re: seasoned timber

have a very nice supply in the 6' x 18" x 4" range from a few seasons on the Medway/Thames!
Worst time is running back in at dusk from fishing in a slight chop - damm things are tougher to spot than the pot markers I now have to dodge!

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[Happy1]

Re: seasoned timber

Have you heard of log cutters? someone was telling me they can be fitted to the boat so no probs.

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[BrendanS]

Under the new Solas V regulations (you know the ones, passage planning, radar reflectors etc) you are now legally required to report serious hazards to navigation to the coastguard.

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[Happy1]

What is the definition of a serious hazard? What is serious to my little tub would be nothing to a tanker or cargo ship.

I went up the river medway to Aylesford and beyond today, there were cars, shopping trolleys, bed springs, chicken wire, logs, rope, office cabinets, lumps of crap sticking out of the middle of the water enough that seagulls could nest on them! old tyres, plastic sacks and bags, kids with catapults firing stones, and more things than I can even mention!!!!

What a dirty stinking sh.t hole of a river, it gives some indication of the locals who must be dumping this stuff. Or perhaps I am just fussy and I should enjoy these delightful sights that have cost me more than £30k to visit!! PLUS £42 for a river licence to use it!!

Next time I think I turn right and head out to the fresh sea air, logs and container ships.

What was interesting was that I went 28 miles in 2hrs 50mins as most of the trip was speed restricted, on refuelling this still equated to roughly £1 per mile. I guess the moral of the story is, if you want to get somehere quick just put your foot down as it won't be any cheaper going slow. If you want to potter around for the sake of it, you get more value in going slower, but just cover less distance but more time on the boat.

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[BarryH]

Sadly, thats why I prefer Poole/Solent. You get a better class of rubbish. Seriously though, its a shame that the rivers get into this state or allowed to stay in this state. Especially rivers through industrial/urban areas. On reflection I think I'll stick tothe coast.

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[bigmart]

The last time I tried to report a large log in the Solent to the Coastguard the dozey Cow on the Radio asked me which direction it was headed in. It don't inspire confidence in our Uniformed friends.

Martin

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[duncan]

he will find that out when he attends the Hamble meet - as I mentioned more than once in passing as an ex. Medway'ite.
Have to get along to the Purbecks before the clear water really hooks you though

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[BrendanS]

I don't believe they have a definition of what constitutes a serious hazard, guess it's down to your judgements. A container off container ship would be a definite. I'd guess anything the size of a railway sleeper would constitute a fairly serious problem to the vast majority of boats in the solent?

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[BrendanS]

Hee!

Still, tides can take objects in the water suprising distances in short times, as we discovered when we did mob exercises, and tried to find objects dropped overboard an hour later after checking tidal atlas

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[Happy1]

Hope the objects were not shopping trolleys, bed springs, cars e.t.c. and that you were not doing the excercises near the tidal flow into the River Medway, If you were I think I may have found your casualty /forums/images/icons/laugh.gif

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[BrendanS]

I think our 'casualty' has drowned and is past recovering after 18 months in the water, so you can claim 'him' under salvage rights

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[Dave_Snelson]

Re: Yep

Yep, Indeed. After a spring tide in North Wales, I found two new fence poles, each 7ft long, 5" diameter and sharpened at one end to get driven into the ground. They were just floating along, waiting to spike some unsuspecting powerboat. I picked up both and removed to a safe place where they couldn't get washed out again.

Shame I couldn't do the same with the 10 ton oak tree trunk that washed up on the sand-bank on the entry channel to Porthmadog harbour!!!!

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[claymore]

Re: Yep

We live a field away from a tidal river and get most of our woodburner fuel from the riverbank. Noticed a lot of fenceposts over the past couple of years, I decided it could possibly be attributed to an increase in marshland reclamation and countryside stewardship schemes

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