boat crash video

Kracker Jack · #1 12-02-2012, 10:14 PM

http://youtu.be/0HvmfuGInDc

Heres a cool compilation of ship and boat crashes on youtube. Pretty cool video.

Destroyer · #2 12-03-2012, 02:31 AM

I wonder if anyone noticed that the scene of the Coast Guard running into and sinking that other boat... it was a Wellcraft airslot.

The Coast guard was at fault in that crash and paid all damages btw.

Rules of the road = The boat on the starboard side always has the right of way. Since the Wellcraft was on the starboard side of the Cutter he had the right of way and the Cutter was required to give way.

spareparts · #3 12-03-2012, 07:39 AM

its amazing as you watch these videos you will notice that most of them could have been avoided if the camera person told the captain to slow down or stop rather than just sit there with their video camera filming the carnage.

And to add what Destroyer said, never cross in front of, always following

Destroyer · #4 12-03-2012, 03:43 PM

Spareparts is exactly right. The ship on the left is required by law to manuver away from the ship on the right, and the best way to do that is simply to cross behind the ship on the right.

This is the way that the rule for which boat has the right of way came about . Back when boats had only sails and the rudder was a board lashed to the starboard side of the boat. That board was called the steering board. (Think Viking longboats) [This is where we got the term starboard btw... steering board became steerboard became starboard through the years.. The steering board side of the ship was the right side since most people are right handed and their strong arm is their right arm, so they lashed the steering board to the right side of the ship]. Ships were usually piled high with cargo and so it was difficult for the person steering the boat while standing on the back, right side of the boat to see off to his left side. His vision was blocked a lot of the time by the cargo. When there were two boats crossing each other the boat on the left side had a clear field of vision towards the boat on the right side cause there was no cargo in his way. So the rule became that the boat with the clear field of vision had to manuver out of the way of the boat with the limited vision.. and thus was born the rule of the road that the boat on the starboard side always has the right of way.

(And as a side note, since the steering board was always lashed to the right side of the ship, when the ship was tied up at the dock they would always tie the boat up with the left side of the boat facing the dock to prevent the steering board from being broken by rubbing on the pilings..and that's why the left side of a ship is known as the "port" side)

Class dismissed.. :)

bradford · #5 12-03-2012, 06:20 PM

Be careful out there, the idiots are breeding faster than anyone else.

ASSume they know nothing of the Rules of the Road.

awthacker · #6 12-03-2012, 09:05 PM

They anchor dropping on the smaller boat was my favorite!

And thanks Detroyer! Now I will be able to remember which side is port and starboard now.

Monkey Butler · #7 12-04-2012, 07:42 PM

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Originally Posted by awthacker

And thanks Detroyer! Now I will be able to remember which side is port and starboard now.

Simps like me need something easier.

Port is four letters and so is left... Port = Left
Starboard is longer than Port and Right is longer than Left... Starboard = Right

Navigation Lights... Port wine is red, so red light goes on the Port or Left side of your boat and so Green goes on the Right side. Boat approaching on Right side will see Green and so has Right 0f Way.

Works for me.

Destroyer · #8 12-04-2012, 11:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Monkey Butler

Simps like me need something easier.

Port is four letters and so is left... Port = Left
Starboard is longer than Port and Right is longer than Left... Starboard = Right

Navigation Lights... Port wine is red, so red light goes on the Port or Left side of your boat and so Green goes on the Right side. Boat approaching on Right side will see Green and so has Right 0f Way.

Works for me.

Well, as the story goes, the lights also have their origions from a practical standpoint.

When a boat was in port, the work of loading and unloading cargo would go on 24/7 until the boat was either loaded or unloaded. Back then they didn't have 200 watt electric lights... they worked by the light of torches and lanterns. It was easy for a person to get confused in the dark and stepping or falling off the side of the ship into the water was not uncommon.. The side of the boat next to the dock was a dangerous place to be in the water because you could get crushed between the dock and the boat. So to warn the workers that they were on the danger side of the boat they would line the port side with red lanterns. The steerboard side was lined with green lanterns to let the workers know they were on the safe side.

As Monkey Butler guessed, the red and green lights evolved so that when at sea, if you saw a boats green lights, you knew that it was safe to proceed, because you were on his right side and you had the right of way, but if you saw his red lights you knew that it he was on your right, he had the right of way and that you needed to stop or manuver out of the way.

This is where and why we get our modern traffic light colors. Red means danger (stop) and green means it's safe (to proceed)