On 2014/02/21 12:30 AM, Rick Brass wrote:
Rick:
In a later post on this incident, I said we should have been traveling
at a lower speed given the lack of visibility and the lack of
electronics....we knew that then, as well, but we were taking risks.
After passing the buoy to our port about 5 feet away, we then slowed
down to 3 kts....it was a sobering feeling....we got away with this one!
Rob
Rob,
Re: Hitting a buoy at 6.5 knots in the fog
See COLREGS rule 6.
I think of it as the marine equivalent of the "Basic Speed Limit" in
effect for cars in the US -- "to be able to stop in the assured clear
distance ahead"
*From:*CnC-List [mailto:cnc-list-boun...@cnc-list.com] *On Behalf Of
*Robert Abbott
*Sent:* Thursday, February 20, 2014 10:06 AM
*To:* cnc-list@cnc-list.com
*Subject:* Stus-List Navigation Devices
Some years back on a friend's C&C 34R with no chartplotter or radar,
we were motoring home after a race was called for lack of wind, in the
fog, and dam near ran into a navigational bouy . It could have been
really ugly hitting that immovable object at 6.5 knots.
Rob Abbott
AZURA
C&C 32 - 84
Halifax, N.S.
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