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Last night on my way home my radios in my boat decided to play hard to get, turned out to be a crook wire connection on the bus bar this morning when i looked.
Hence the reason for this post. Around 9/10 pm off Cleveland point 2 parachute flares were set off, i was near coochie and heading home to Russell and stopped when i saw them, tried to rewire the radios but didn't want to burn anything out and had no success(hence i couldn't radio anyone.)
Darryl
You may have performed a breach of maritime law by not going to assist a vessel in distress. That is my understanding anyway, Does anyone else support that view or am I wrong.
Regards
rando
not a breach if you endanger your vessel or crew (no communications).
I would have rung the police and reported it when I got to a ph, that way you know you have done all you could.
cheers
blaze
Rando the wind was blowing 25 knots, and had an outgoing tide ,and if you dont know the area between Peel and Cleveland point i can tell you it can be nasty when it's wind against tide. Another factor was a short in my own boat which is why i was heading home in the slop.
Also mate i didn't have the fuel and the 175 would have made me a statistic as well. I did however wait in the area for 10 minutes and rang Redland Bay Police and reported it. As Blaze stated i would have put myself in danger with no gps/radios having to go another 5 k's back. This is the first time i have had a failure of electrics in my boat and i felt pretty helpless. I tried to sort the short but it was to rough, then i would have simply use the vhf/27meg to radio the authorities.
I have my commercial ticket and did what i could. Funny thing is that there must have been 200 boats in the Bay in the area and i'm sure some were AFishers but knowone saw it.
Darryl
Mate I was not pointing a finger, it was a technical point , and I probably should have used different language.
1. It is always the skippers call, as to where he puts his vessal.
2. I am not familiar with your vessal or its capabilities
3. Never should you endanger you vessal or crew
4. As blaze said no emergency call so possably a hoax
5. Yes, I am very familiar with the area between Peel ,Coochie ,Cleveland & Manly, not the best spot for small boats with wind against tide.
I did not mean to embarrass you at all and am sorry if that was the result, only meant to inform.
On your last point, that no-one else saw these flares ,,,just how many rums ( for snakebite & fatique only of course ) had been taken
cheers
rando
Rando, it's all good mate, i didn't take it in a bad way at all. My boats 18.9 foot but with the electrics down and not knowing the area i couldn't go there.
No rum was had
I would put money on those balloon things that the kids made that set fire to straddie on the weekend, i would say the turds lit a few at Cleveland before they jumped on the ferry over to Straddie...
Or maybe it was the snake bite and maybe to many rums were had.
) had been taken
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