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TwoWrights said:
Someone should remind Ivan that the rule is motor gives way to sail. :emoticon-0138-think


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Looking at the picture of them, you know the type - driving the wrong way down a single lane in a supermarket car park, zero situational awareness and leaving a trail of havoc behind them, yet never getting within 5 kmph of the speed limit.

In the article, the woman basically admits they were at fault, they were sailing crossways to the Russian vessel and getting closer and closer to within under 500m. The Russian captain blew his warning horn five times twice, to indicate that he didn't know their intention and they didn't turn enough to show what they were doing. Blanks probably fired to wake the pair up. Small yachts can get sucked under in the wake of large boats so whoever fired the weapon to warn them did them a favour. Sounds like the MoD agrees ...

Looking at the original headline, it was reading like Putin himself walked into Torquay SeaView Retirement Home with a Makarov and tried to cap an OAP watching Countdown.
 
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Heimdallr said:
Looking at the picture of them, you know the type - driving the wrong way down a single lane in a supermarket car park, zero situational awareness and leaving a trail of havoc behind them, yet never getting within 5 kmph of the speed limit.

In the article, the woman basically admits they were at fault, they were sailing crossways to the Russian vessel and getting closer and closer to within under 500m. The Russian captain blew his warning horn five times twice, to indicate that he didn't know their intention and they didn't turn enough to show what they were doing. Blanks probably fired to wake the pair up. Small yachts can get sucked under in the wake of large boats so whoever fired the weapon to warn them did them a favour. Sounds like the MoD agrees ...

Looking at the original headline, it was reading like Putin himself walked into Torquay SeaView Retirement Home with a Makarov and tried to cap an OAP watching Countdown.
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pretty much yea
its really no big deal

any military vessels wont let an unidentified boat get near them
they werent actually at risk of being shot

but it does good pr for the russia are the enemy line
 
TwoWrights said:
Someone should remind Ivan that the rule is motor gives way to sail. :emoticon-0138-think


It's our time.
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The boat I was working on in Nigeria was spot chartered to move a derrick barge from Lagos to Benin. Not the most manouverable combimation in a confined waterway, and as such, the Lagos port authority stopped all other shipping movements on their least busy day, Sunday. But forgot to tell the Lagos Yacht Club. The sensible ones, on seeing this slow moving leviathan, decided the regatta could be put on hold for a while. All except one who insistent cry of "Sail before Steam" was met with - get out of the f*****g way, or find out if those f*****g lifejackets you're wearing, work.

Not sure what the Russians fired at the channel yacht, but it had the same effect as a verbal volley from an irate Hull born First Mate.
No, no, not me. I was the engineer.
 
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Asterix said:
The boat I was working on in Nigeria was spot chartered to move a derrick barge from Lagos to Benin. Not the most manouverable combimation in a confined waterway, and as such, the Lagos port authority stopped all other shipping movements on their least busy day, Sunday. But forgot to tell the Lagos Yacht Club. The sensible ones, on seeing this slow moving leviathan, decided the regatta could be put on hold for a while. All except one who insistent cry of "Sail before Steam" was met with - get out of the f*****g way, or find out if those f*****g lifejackets you're wearing, work.

Not sure what the Russians fired at the channel yacht, but it had the same effect as a verbal volley from an irate Hull born First Mate.
No, no, not me. I was the engineer.
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My dad was an engineer, worked his way up to chief engineer then got a shore job. I have his marine discharge book with the ships he sailed on, some to all over the globe, but later ones were coasters. :emoticon-0138-think


It's our time.
 
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