Epic fail

[anonymous-user]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-144...

hopefully the video works for everyone... i'm not an experienced sailor by any stretch of the imagination but i would like to think i would have avoided this....

[matchmaker]

In theory steam should give way to sail...............but I wouldn't have tried to test the theory out against a tanker!

[Davel]

Whatever happened to commonsense?

You might have right of way with a sail, but how can you possibly expect a tanker to stop or swerve.

Thank god no one was killed!

[Huntsman]

matchmaker said:

In theory steam should give way to sail...............but I wouldn't have tried to test the theory out against a tanker!

Not so in this case, exclusion zone cleary marked on all charts and a by-law in place giving commercial vessels in the Solent right of way.

Skipper was a idiot.

[Riff Raff]

Huntsman said:

matchmaker said:

In theory steam should give way to sail...............but I wouldn't have tried to test the theory out against a tanker!

Not so in this case, exclusion zone cleary marked on all charts and a by-law in place giving commercial vessels in the Solent right of way.

Skipper was a idiot.

^^^ This. What a prize tool. He's lucky he didn't get someone killed. There's no way I'd want to be in the water alongside a tanker doing God knows how many knots waiting to get sucked into the screw(s).

[Simpo Two]

Epic repost!

[Riff Raff]

Simpo Two said:

Epic repost!

To be fair to the OP, it was a thread titled ColRegs. Many would just pass that by..............

[anonymous-user]

sorry didnt see it first time round....