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Silkie wrote:The story I'm hearing is that she got into an awkward position having been baulked by a ferry and was then caught out by the wind and lack of steerage way.

Toggle between 1800 and 1810- puts the Isle of Mull well clear of the entrance:



http://www.aisliverpool.org.uk/historym ... e=20130520

Silkie wrote:The story I'm hearing is that she got into an awkward position having been baulked by a ferry and was then caught out by the wind and lack of steerage way.

I though that was what all the " Ferry Isle of Mull will shortly be leaving the ro-ro berth and exiting Oban Bay via the north entrance" stuff on Channel 16 was meant to avoid.

Mark wrote:They call that aground? I've been WAY more aground than that.

That was the last boat in Faro - for 11 hours! Just too late to follow the rule about always entering port on a rising tide...
We don't talk about the latest incident.

claymore wrote:Wonder if the 'Isle of Mull' has a wee cruise liner painted on her wheelhouse

Oh ye'r a bad bu88er...

We have a chart with a rock marked in by hand, at a position just north of Insh Island (the one between Mull and Easdale). The helmsman at the time held the position of Admiral. He declined the offer to initial the chart amendment.

Stuff happens. But the Oban bay mark? Gotta be more to that!

Nick wrote:What, gone the wrong side of a cardinal mark?

I haven't, and wouldn't expect cruise ship captains to.

You must have low expectations of professional seamen.

God, how boring is that?

I almost always cut corners behind the bouys & regularly find new "passages" over, around & behind the sandbanks. Big ship channels can be over 12' deep & I get giddy that far from the seabed.

Arghiro wrote:

Nick wrote:What, gone the wrong side of a cardinal mark?

I haven't, and wouldn't expect cruise ship captains to.

You must have low expectations of professional seamen.

God, how boring is that?

I almost always cut corners behind the bouys & regularly find new "passages" over, around & behind the sandbanks. Big ship channels can be over 12' deep & I get giddy that far from the seabed.

I should have said - for the benefit of the pedants among us - that I have never gone the wrong side of a cardinal mark accidentally.

Are you suggesting the Serenissima deliberately tried to cross the Corran Ledge?

NorthUp2 wrote:Toggle between 1800 and 1810- puts the Isle of Mull well clear of the entrance:

It appears to float off just after 01:00 the next day and move towards Kerrera, and then.....

at 01:40 apparently sinks....

Ghillie wrote:

NorthUp2 wrote:Toggle between 1800 and 1810- puts the Isle of Mull well clear of the entrance:

It appears to float off just after 01:00 the next day and move towards Kerrera, and then.....

at 01:40 apparently sinks....

. . . or switched off the AIS?

Don't believe everything you see on the internet . .

Nick wrote:. . . or switched off the AIS?

I would have hoped that the use of the word "apparently" would have protected me from an apparent charge of naivety!

I am surprised they didn't switch off the AIS the minute it hit bottom.

Of course I believe everything on Blue Moment, a very fine website & forum.

Ghillie wrote:Of course I believe everything on Blue Moment, a very fine website & forum.

Floatery will get you everywhere . . .

Nick wrote:

Arghiro wrote:

Nick wrote:What, gone the wrong side of a cardinal mark?

I haven't, and wouldn't expect cruise ship captains to.

You must have low expectations of professional seamen.

God, how boring is that?

I almost always cut corners behind the bouys & regularly find new "passages" over, around & behind the sandbanks. Big ship channels can be over 12' deep & I get giddy that far from the seabed.

I should have said - for the benefit of the pedants among us - that I have never gone the wrong side of a cardinal mark accidentally.

Are you suggesting the Serenissima deliberately tried to cross the Corran Ledge?

I am not suggesting anything, I simply stated the whole truth rather than half of it.

Bit sensitive tonight are we?