YBW - Rules of the Road Video

[M_S_Dean]

http://www.ybw.com/videos/good-idea-know-rules-of-the-road-42683

Why use a video like this to emphasis 'Rules of the Road'

The small cruiser is clearly not powered during the video and no one is sighted on board until after the collision. I expect the helmsman had his head down in the engine compartment trying to fix it.

Also
- Why is the ship not making any sound signals? - there are other sounds on the video.
- Why do we not see any of the bridge crew check if the cruiser is still afloat as it bounces down the side of the ship.

Which vessel do you think has broken the most rules?

 

[Blue Sunray]

Why use a video like this to emphasis 'Rules of the Road'??

Quite possibly because whoever selected it either has little knowledge of IRPCS or is a Raggie with a chip on his shoulder about motor boats (the two categories are not necessary mutually exclusive).

would be a much better illustration.

 

[jfm]

It's a very poor bit of journalism, written by someone who seems clueless about the rules.

The rules are as ever shown up as awful here. you have one rule telling the small guy not to impede the big guy if it's a narrow channel, but no-one knows with clarity what impede means. Then you have another rule saying the big guy is the give way vessel, and reconciling those two conflicting rules is far from easy. You have another rule saying display two black balls, if the small guy happened to be NUC at the time (which seems the case but I'm not sure), and one saying both guys must avoid a collision, and so on. It's a lousy set of conflicting and unclear rules, and journalism if it were any good would be saying that. Of course no rules will help much if people don't apply some self preservation, common sense and courtesy.

 

[davidej]

Quite possibly because whoever selected it either has little knowledge of IRPCS or is a Raggie with a chip on his shoulder about motor boats (the two categories are not necessary mutually exclusive).

would be a much better illustration.

This make me wonder who is the one with a chip-on-the-shoulder.

 

[prv]

It's a very poor bit of journalism, written by someone who seems clueless about the rules.

This is absolutely standard for the fluff they churn out for the YBW sidebar. It's patently obvious that the office juniors they have doing it know nothing about sailing, shipping, or the sea. But presumably it keeps up some sort of "content freshness" metric handed down by Time Warner head office.

There's no point critiquing this stuff as if it were serious journalism.

Pete

 

[nigelmercier]

This is absolutely standard for the fluff they churn out for the YBW sidebar...

That annoying area that I sometimes catch with my scrolling thumb.

 

[rubberduck]

This make me wonder who is the one with a chip-on-the-shoulder.

To be balanced, & I know little of yacht type things, but it doesn't look as if the yacht is in total control ?

 

[Bazzer]

To be balanced, & I know little of yacht type things, but it doesn't look as if the yacht is in total control ?

i heard the small yacht was fined £5000 and £95,000 in costs ???

 

[ProDave]

Am I mistaken, or is that cargo ship in the original clip going astern? the small boat may not have been expecting that.

 

[jfm]

Am I mistaken...

I'm afraid you are. It's one of those ships with the "cab" at the front. Might have confused the guy in the small boat of course