Red Funnel ferry hits yacht...

[Petrus1983]

Just hearing that the Isle of Wight ferry has hit a yacht approaching Cowes, the yacht is fully submerged and life boats launched. Doesn’t sound promising for the yachts crew.

[Petrus1983]

[MXRod]

Great , we are/were off to IOW tomorrow morning for a half term break with grandson .
Red Funnel run 3 ferries from Southampton to E Cowes
So that will be down to 2 for time being .
I suppose a delay is nothing to the possibility of injury or otherwise to those involved . lets hope all is well and it is only fibre glass damaged

[karma mechanic]

They seem to have form on foggy mornings, their Red Eagle vessel had a similar mishap at the end of September:
https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/16906718.lifeboat...

[SimonTheSailor]

Somebody has said that it's up to 3 collisions now in foggy weather recently.

[ecsrobin]

SimonTheSailor said:

Somebody has said that it's up to 3 collisions now in foggy weather recently.

I think it’s 2 foggy morning incidents in the last month and a collision with a motor yacht.

[normalbloke]

They’ll be asking for bridgecam footage next...

[Funk]

normalbloke said:

They’ll be asking for bridgecam footage next...

'Splashcam'.

[Ziplobb]

The Kids and the Missus were stuck in the car park waiting to get over for the Wessex Cyclocross meet in Southampton. How the hell it ended up where it ended up god only knows. You would think that the pilot knows where the mornings and the way in is by now ...

[Simpo Two]

Ziplobb said:

You would think that the pilot knows where the mornings and the way in is by now ...

Ah well that was the problem you see. He was trying to find mornings when he should have looked for moorings

[Dogwatch]

One of their new "green" hybrid vessels from the news video. Sinking other people's yachts doesn't seem very Eco, perhaps they switched off the radar to save leccy?

[Taffer]

Dogwatch said:

One of their new "green" hybrid vessels from the news video. Sinking other people's yachts doesn't seem very Eco, perhaps they switched off the radar to save leccy?

Red Funnel don't have any hybrid vessels, AFAIK - the only IoW hybrid ferry is Wightlink's 'Victoria of Wight'.

[ecsrobin]

Taffer said:

Dogwatch said:

One of their new "green" hybrid vessels from the news video. Sinking other people's yachts doesn't seem very Eco, perhaps they switched off the radar to save leccy?

Red Funnel don't have any hybrid vessels, AFAIK - the only IoW hybrid ferry is Wightlink's 'Victoria of Wight'.

Rebranded and running on biofuel.

“From early October, the main engines and generators on Red Falcon will operate exclusively on Green-D Bio-Fuel. ”

[Simpo Two]

ecsrobin said:

“From early October, the main engines and generators on Red Falcon will operate exclusively on Green-D Bio-Fuel. ”

That's the stuff they plough up the Indonesian rainforests to make isn't it? But it has 'Green' and 'Bio' in the title so it must be OK.

[NickCQ]

Wonder what he hit, probably a Daring or some other Solent dayboat given where those moorings are.
Spent a week on a Quarter Tonner there once... wouldn't have stood a chance.

[surveyor]

I do wonder whether it ran aground accidentally or on purpose. The passengers had been sent to the cars.. Not the best time to collide with another boat. I can see an argument that the best place to put the ship was aground, while they worked out if there was any damage that had breached the hull.

[ApOrbital]

Because Benbay001 was shouting at them to loud

[NickCQ]

surveyor said:

I do wonder whether it ran aground accidentally or on purpose. The passengers had been sent to the cars.. Not the best time to collide with another boat. I can see an argument that the best place to put the ship was aground, while they worked out if there was any damage that had breached the hull.

Interesting thought, but if I hit a <30ft fibreglass yacht in one of those ferries I would not be worrying about damage overly much.

From the AIS track it looks like they were very close to the East Cowes dock anyway

[MXRod]

Sitting on dock Southampton , waiting for11 am sailing
Seems all back to normal , looks like red falcon back in service,

[ThunderSpook]

It was a Contessa 32 that sunk. The owner is claiming it “could cost up to £200k to replace, although it was insured for much less”.

I just had a quick google, somewhere around £20k more like.