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Fog signal frequency
For sailboats it's one prolonged blast followed by one short.
But, if you're motoring as the poster was, then you must sound the motor boat signal which consists on one prolonged blast. A sailboat becomes a motorboat when it's using its engine. S.Simon - a Captain who's serious about sailing "fraggy" wrote in message ... hiya I thought that the blast at 2 min intervals if you are a sailing vessel you make 1 long blast followed by 1 short ? fragged "Steve" wrote in message om... While motoring last week we encountered thick fog and I requested a crew member to sound a 5 second blast every minute. My thinking being that the colregs specify an interval of not more than 2 minutes and shorter would be better in a busy harbour entrance. The skipper later said that I should have specified an interval of 2 minutes. A quick Google shows that the interval is sometimes quoted as 2 minutes, although I know that the colregs do say 'not greater than 2 minutes'. Any thoughts ? Is exactly 2 minutes advisable for any reason ? Is 1 minute potentially confusing ? Thanks Steve |
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