There is NO VHF warning. They lock down Boston Harbor and the Mystic River
with the LNG tankers.

"Rodney Myrvaagnes" wrote in message
...
On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 20:19:39 GMT, Charles Cox
wrote:

On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 17:30:57 GMT, "J. Slater"
wrote:


Answer me this: How does a vessel maintain 100 yards from a militaty
vessel
when passing in a channel that is less than 50 yards wide? The "rules"
don't seem to give a remedy for this kind of scenario. It should at
least
be mentioned as an exception.


It's happened to me a couple of times in Boston harbor. Not military
ships, but a cruise ship and LNG tanker both had security
zones around them. Since there is no warning on the VHF, it is easy to
get caught by a ship leaving one of the channels or the
Mystic river because they are not visible until they are entering the
main channel. In both cases, the police instructed (via
bullhorn) me to keep as far to the outside of the channel as possible.
Fortunately this has never happened when I was near the
airport security zone, one could easily find oneself caught in the middle
of two overlapping security zones.

I have never know a ship to cast off without an announcement on VHF13,
in, New York, Boston, or anywhere else. If you didn't know the names
of the ships, you might have missed the significance of the
announcements.



Rodney Myrvaagnes J36
Gjo/a


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