Well, as you can see we just got stuck in and the tanker passed safely astern, along with the blue tug behind that helps her steer round the sharp right-hander into Southampton Water.
But it could have gone very horrible:
Sunday, 6 January 2013
Rowing across the Solent
Well, as you can see we just got stuck in and the tanker passed safely astern, along with the blue tug behind that helps her steer round the sharp right-hander into Southampton Water.
But it could have gone very horrible:
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question is did you keep out of the 1000 meter exclusion zone ahead of the ship? - clearly the yacht's man in the video hadn't.
There was a good deal of discussion of the exclusion zone in the boat. It is impossible to judge how far away a monster tanker really is to any accuracy by eye, beyond 'too close for comfort'. The Harbour Patrol Boat (aka 'the blue boat') should have warned us off if we were in the exclusion zone but it wasn't around.
Looks like the strectch of the Hudson that runs past Manhattan and is known as North River. Liners and tankers and barges, oh my! There are a lot of things that I miss about paddling that area, but the stress I always felt when crossing shipping channels used by "the big guys" is not one of them!
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