X channel shipping

Sometimes it is like crossing a Motorway but not the M25 as it is never at a standstill /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif
Occasionally it's as though they have all taken the day off but those days do appear to be getting fewer.
I crossed for many years without all the toys, but now that I've got them I wouldn't want to give them up!
As for crossing in fog, if you are out there and run into it some turn back, I didn't but that's me. I have also set off in fog, but I knew at the time it was confined to the coast. On this occasion I was on my own, if the family had been with me a different decisions would have been made.
 
Ah you're all a bunch of wimps. In our day we did it in a leaky shoe box (size 9) with 15 matches tied together as a mast and an old paper tissue for a sail. Had to pray it didn't rain and get the "bio degradeable sail" wet. Fog? you couldn't see the water from the box lid looking straight down. Had to use a comb and paper for a fog horn - didn't half make yer lips sore.
Don't know yer born wiv all this 'lectrical stuff!
 
last year in August there were 180 ships "seen" in one 12 hour crossing. Of the 180, 20 passed less than 4nm away. One jinked out the way ... kind of him, I thought, until I saw that it was a COSCO behemoth 10nm away that he was avoiding.

As world trade has increased there are bound to be more and bigger ships about and us in our sailing boats are reliant on our own devices to avoid them. Col Regs mean nothing. Even the almanacs now add this caution ....
 
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