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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2020 1:12:28 GMT
Do people like to do late night boating?
I mean just getting on with it until you fancy stopping.
I quite often do a spot of light late night boating and today it ended about half an hour ago at 0130.
It just seems "right". I suppose if you have someone else aboard it could get more complicated but I really like it and currently due to social Distancing laws it is just me on the boat. And the fox barking and the GWR trains.
I do wonder if other people resent night time boaters a little. I'm on the Thames and always go at a nice gentle pace so as not to cause wash or noise nuisance.
And it is a PRN river and I have the correct nav lights. And and and
I have also very much enjoyed late night boating on the cut WITHOUT any bright lights. Just a red and green so (in theory) any other relevant person would recognise the boat. The last thing you want to do is take away someone's night vision.
That is the job of the cyclists.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2020 2:38:58 GMT
ooops, t'other night I was on narrow and shallow Chesterfield, needed tunnel light on [down pointing] to see sides, I can't say it was much fun, those LED nav lights are very bright btw. Not sure about Colregs lights ln a non Colreg canal, but my interpretatjon of Colregs is that I need an all round white 1m above nav lights, about 1/4 of the way from bow.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2020 5:37:24 GMT
I'm sure someone will leap for the opportunity to tell me I'm wrong but... - the all-round white light is an anchor light
- boats under power should present a 'steaming' light (white light visible from forward only).
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Post by TonyDunkley on Aug 11, 2020 6:04:56 GMT
I'm sure someone will leap for the opportunity to tell me I'm wrong but... - the all-round white light is an anchor light
- boats under power should present a 'steaming' light (white light visible from forward only).
Correct for anything power driven and over 12m LOA, . . but power driven under 12m LOA are allowed to combine the masthead (steaming) and the stern lamps into one all-round white visible at 2 miles.
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Post by JohnV on Aug 11, 2020 6:34:18 GMT
Dinghy, shining a glow worm of a torch on the sails in the vain hope that they will be spotted against the lights of Southend seafront
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Post by bodger on Aug 11, 2020 6:52:10 GMT
Just cruised between Abingdon and Shiplake. The biggest problem was the bunches of yahoo-henrys, some of them on expensive dayboats, charging along late in the evening disturbing the peace. Drink and loud mirth are not being rationed permit others to enjoy a quiet evening.
..................... and social distancing has gone out of the window.
Don't ask me to comment on the kids swimming and paddle-boarding in the lock cuts or under bridges (not at night, luckily), where it is necessary to assume they will get clear at the last minute to allow boats to pass - reminds me of Canada Geese in several ways, including the inane cackling that accompanies their presence.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2020 6:55:48 GMT
Does it not concern you @magnetman that you may be causing a noise nuisance to others who have settled down for the night ... after all you have made your lack of tolerance of other boaters behaviour clear many times I like 'silly o clock' early morning cruising, but evenings quite often involve a little alcohol for me, and I don't boat and drink ... just a personal choice. Perhaps also, moonlight on the wide open Thames has greater romance than the T&M in Stoke. Rog
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2020 6:56:33 GMT
Dinghy, shining a glow worm of a torch on the sails in the vain hope that they will be spotted against the lights of Southend seafront Did this once on the Solent but the light was a quite powerful spotlamp so it was actually most effective.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2020 7:00:31 GMT
I'm sure someone will leap for the opportunity to tell me I'm wrong but... - the all-round white light is an anchor light
- boats under power should present a 'steaming' light (white light visible from forward only).
Correct for anything power driven and over 12m LOA, . . but power driven under 12m LOA are allowed to combine the masthead (steaming) and the stern lamps into one all-round white visible at 2 miles. So, if Sock's boat is less than approx forty feet she wins...
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2020 7:07:04 GMT
I'm sure someone will leap for the opportunity to tell me I'm wrong but... - the all-round white light is an anchor light
- boats under power should present a 'steaming' light (white light visible from forward only).
Yes, but, a stern night is also required, the stern light would normally be at roughly same height as the red and the green , plus a white masthead with respectiive angles forming 360 degrees of white All round white anchor light and any deck lighting at night, no red/green nav lights. It is the combination red/green/white that indicates 'powered vessel underway, making way' www.marineinsight.com/marine-navigation/understanding-the-importance-of-marine-navigation-lighting/
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Post by patty on Aug 11, 2020 7:20:45 GMT
Mark took me late night boating last year..... Destination..to pump out the loo cos someone had left it on pause.... Possibly not quite the scenic trip we could have had....
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Post by TonyDunkley on Aug 11, 2020 7:53:03 GMT
ooops, t'other night I was on narrow and shallow Chesterfield, needed tunnel light on [down pointing] to see sides, I can't say it was much fun, those LED nav lights are very bright btw. Not sure about Colregs lights ln a non Colreg canal, but my interpretatjon of Colregs is that I need an all round white 1m above nav lights, about 1/4 of the way from bow. Don't lose any sleep over it ! C&RT are the navigation authority for that canal, . . and I doubt that their 'Arse or Elbow' department would have even the slightest idea of what you were talking about if you were to ask them for any sort of guidance or ruling. A word of caution, though, in the event of you ever finding yourself underway at night amongst the commercial shipping on the Trent between Keadby and Trent End (Apex Light) or the Ouse from Trent End to Howden Dyke (roughly 2 miles topside of Goole) always work to the assumption that despite complying with the COLREGS specifications for the size of vessel, your lights will NOT be visible to anyone peering through the wheelhouse windows of a barge or ship. The visibility problem is not due to the smaller wattage of pleasure craft nav. lamps, but to the physical size of the lamp lenses - they're simply too small to be easily visible and picked out from amongst the jumble of dots of reflected light from other vessel's lights, shore lights and marks, that tend to dance about on the inside of the wheelhouse windows of larger vessels underway at night. If you are ever underway in the dark in the areas mentioned above, or amongst commercials anywhere for that matter, give the VTS a shout with your direction (inbound or outbound), your estimated speed (over the ground), your location (wharf, landmark, light or other nav. mark, or any other vessel in sight and whether they're carrying one or two masthead lamps), and then keep listening to the shipping movement info that the VTS will be constantly broadcasting, . . you will be included in it, if circumstances so demand, and they'll be alerting the commercials to your presence.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2020 7:53:17 GMT
Love night time cruising, done Napton to Hawkesbury overnight, 8pm to 6am, Hawkesbury to Braunstone over two nights, Tamworth to Atherstone overnight..
The double locks at Braunstone were scary though at night.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2020 9:19:53 GMT
Just cruised between Abingdon and Shiplake. The biggest problem was the bunches of yahoo-henrys, some of them on expensive dayboats, charging along late in the evening disturbing the peace. Drink and loud mirth are not being rationed permit others to enjoy a quiet evening.
..................... and social distancing has gone out of the window.
Don't ask me to comment on the kids swimming and paddle-boarding in the lock cuts or under bridges (not at night, luckily), where it is necessary to assume they will get clear at the last minute to allow boats to pass - reminds me of Canada Geese in several ways, including the inane cackling that accompanies their presence.
Yesterday it was Henley to Goring for me I must have passed you somewhere.
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Post by bodger on Aug 11, 2020 11:23:42 GMT
Just cruised between Abingdon and Shiplake. The biggest problem was the bunches of yahoo-henrys, some of them on expensive dayboats, charging along late in the evening disturbing the peace. Drink and loud mirth are not being rationed permit others to enjoy a quiet evening.
..................... and social distancing has gone out of the window.
Don't ask me to comment on the kids swimming and paddle-boarding in the lock cuts or under bridges (not at night, luckily), where it is necessary to assume they will get clear at the last minute to allow boats to pass - reminds me of Canada Geese in several ways, including the inane cackling that accompanies their presence.
Yesterday it was Henley to Goring for me I must have passed you somewhere. Friday Abingdon to Goring.
Saturday Goring to Shiplake. Shiplake lock was like queueing at Disneyworld.
Sunday Shiplake to Benson (hooray! the electric point at Benson was finally fixed this weekend after 4 years out of action). Wallingford was like Bournemouth beach.
Monday Benson to Abingdon. A fat boat steaming up Day's lock cut at max allowed speed 5mph decided to squeeze me into the brambles after I passed under the narrow footbridge at 3mph - "I have a big boat - I have the right to keep station in the centre of the channel". My dad taught me that when driving fast on narrow roads, always expect to meet yourself coming the other way. I just hope that boater will one day meet himself approaching that bridge in such a situation.
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