Ep 139 Bad Skipper Behavior | Sint Maarten to Antigua
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- čas přidán 26. 08. 2024
- Our guests Jen and Phil arrive in Dutch Sint Maarten, and we sail around the island with them, visiting Grand Case on the French side. This was a blast, and everyone had a good time. But eventually, it was time for us to leave SXM.
We opt to sail at night for the 90 nautical mile passage, and although it’s a close reach the sailing was excellent. The only thing marring the trip was the constant close calls with other boat traffic.
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for those that have followed your sailing journey these past six years, your chat with James on between two sheets has had me captured twice now. sailing family is great! luv your travels, yess awesome.. so happy for you both
Appreciate that Gary. It's great to hear. A lot of work goes into filming and editing these episodes, and comments like yours are the reward. Thanks for being with us.
Great video Kevin and Wendy. We just chartered a boat down in the Bahamas and it didn’t have an operational anchor light. I think we were the first ones to complain about it. We just turned all the lights we had on the deck on. Great thing about charterboats is we don’t have to do the maintenance!
Indeed. I think I'd use the steaming light (white, halfway up the mast) in lieu of an anchor light. I wouldn't want to use nav lights or anything that would indicate I was under way. But sounds like a great trip. Was it a big group, or just a few?
It was five of us. A great trip!
Good advice. It doesn't matter what the rule of the water is, always take responsibility to keep yourself safe on the water. Pretend that there isn't a competent captain on the other boat.
The concept is that you don't want two boats steering into each other in an attempt at avoidance. Which is why they want stand-on and give-way vessels. And of course you want to make your intentions clear well in advance. But so many larger boats and ships just figure everyone else will get out of the way, and the number of close calls we've had has been high.
: ) awesome sailing, great video!!!!!
Thanks Thomas! Glad you enjoy.
Just watched you guys and James on between two sheets great podcast loved it
Thanks Glen. That one was a lot of fun.
Good to see you and Wendy Kevin Jolly harbour a great place spent my honeymoon there @ Sugarridge
Hi Alister. We love Jolly Harbor, although it can be buggy at certain points of the year (it shows as a giant mangrove swamp on the Admiralty charts from the days of old). But all of Antigua is awesome. It's kind of our base of operations.
Haven’t watched you guys for a while. What a beautiful video. You sold Antigua, etc and the lifestyle to me! I loved it! ⛵️
Thanks Hugh. These are the comments that make it all worthwhile.
Yep - generally they have no regard, just get the heck out of the way. Accept it and move on.
Brilllllliant sailing ⛵️ thanks for sharing 👍
Thanks Patrick.
Wendy and Keith... Ha... I'd love to be as "homeless". Thank you again for the straight forward and upfront content. Enjoying your travels. Jennifer
Thanks Jennifer!
I noticed that there is an additional tri-color lantern mounted above the anchor light. Here in Europe this may only be switched on under sail in addition to the lights below. This of course greatly improves the visibility of Talisman.
Thanks for the entertaining video!
Hi Albert. Yes, the tricolor and steaming lights are required internationally for boats over 10m if I'm not mistaken. Bareboat charterers in particular often misunderstand how this works. The tricolor is used at night by a sailing vessel under sail (no nav lights, just tricolor). If the sails are down (or even up for motorsailing) and you're under power, you use the steaming light in conjunction with nav lights. You do NOT use both at the same time. It's either tricolor alone, or steaming light paired with nav lights. Using both configurations at once presents a confusing look to other vessels as the appearance can become that of two boats, one superimposed on the other. Anchor lights (360 degree white all around) are obviously used only when stationary at anchor. Captains tests will without exception contain sections where the captain to be will be required to identify shipping, fishing, and recreational boat traffic based on lighting alone.
@@SailingTalisman Hi Kevin, thanks for your detailed comment. You are correct, it is only allowed to run the tri-color lantern alone under sail, I had confused that with red over green. In the days of filament bulbs it was also important to reduce power consumption.
Go ahead to the end? Never!
Ha!
Right around the 0:57 mark I recognised that boat immediately and yeah Sienna loves being up there on the boom.
Really hope to meet you guys this year.
I hope so too. Let's keep in touch re schedules.
@@SailingTalisman Will you guys be in/around St Martin in the end of November?
Good show and good reality check for motor boats vs. stand in vessel. Too bad about the dog bite in subtitles. Hope you will be at boat show in Annapolis in Oct.
Hi David. Yep, Wendy got a dog bite that really bruised up. But all well now. Unfortunately, Talisman is on the hard in Antigua, so we won't be able to attend the Annapolis Boat Show. It's a bummer because we had so much fun last year. But we'll be back on the water in mid November and we can't wait.
Do the collision regulations have any teeth? Can these vessels be reported?
Not unless an actual collision occurs. The larger ships will claim "restricted ability to maneuver", but from experience I know that their maneuverability is better than they let on. It's really more a matter of them not wanting to do it, which is why I highlighted this situation. I should have mentioned that the first boat to cut us off was a 100'+ three masted sailing vessel under way (no sails), and radio communication led to him saying that the owner was adamant that no change of course would be tolerated. He eventually sped up slightly to allow us to pass behind, but only after words were exchanged.
@@SailingTalisman Crazy! Thanks for sharing this information. As a person that is just starting, I thought the regulations would be followed and me thinking that would potentially get me in the path of real danger.
@@svintheanajones88 Yes. Just be aware of the limitations of AIS. A half mile CPA (closest point of approach) can be just in front of the bow of a large ship. Be sure to keep in touch.