MV Do It Now: Coinjock to Great Bridge
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- Опубликовано: 10 фев 2025
- On March 27, 2024, I cruised from Coinjock, NC to the Great Bridge free dock at Chesapeake, VA. The cruise took about 3 hours, but I tried hard to record only the interesting parts and got it down to less than an hour. Highlights: Passing other boats, including two barges, going through three drawbridges, docking at Great Bridge. Narrated, of course. (Can you imagine me not talking?)
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Oh, what a wonderful thing. Alone with a good dog on the water.
Two dogs! We’re having fun. 😊
Nice video Maria. I enjoyed the explanation of how you coordinate with others to navigate safely.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thanks Maria for another great video!
Thanks for watching!
I’m a huge fan of these long videos! Perfect camera angles so I feel like I’m in the boat with you! Thank you! 🙏
LOL! I'm glad someone likes them! I don't think most folks have the attention span to stick with me for so long.
@@MariaLanger Well I certainly do! I love your videos! Keep it up! Impatiently awaiting your next one! Stay safe out there, my friend! 🙏
Maria, really interesting watching this as I live in this area. Watching this in August, live in Great Bridge, and drive over those bridges every day. That sunken sailboat has been joined by another junked boat, and we are trying to get both hauled out and put in a dump. Do not know why the city allows this. Thanks for all of the great commentary, and safe travels!
same here...in Newport News, been over those bridges more than a few OBX bound.
Great Trip. Thank you!
Thanks for watching!
Great video! Very entertaining and informative.
Great video
Thanks!
3:19 I would love to know more about using a radar and showing the boats location on radar. Many thanks!!
I will do a video about that in the future. I have the ability to display my chart plotter on a mobile device and will do videos where I record my tracks and things like that. It's on my list. I just don't have the time lately to edit video! I'm still traveling.
You are cruising my neck of the woods in this video. I cross that channel you are running when I leave Tulls Bay, heading East to Corey’s Ditch, fishing for catfish & Strippers. I normally pass Day board 76.
That sunken sailboat is currently re-floated. It’s a hug old boat that catches one’s eye for sure. I cross that bridge frequently.
Nice video.
I remember feeling how spooky that boat was with its mast sticking out of the water. Thanks for watching!
15:35 1.4 Gallons per mile seems like a lot of gas consumption! I'm guessing it can get pretty expensive cruising this way? Are there any strategies for covering the distance without so much fuel?
Slower speeds reduce fuel consumption. So does planning your cruise to take advantage of tidal currents. I do this when practical.
I thought if a vessel is equipped with radar, Nav Rule 7 says it must be turned on when underway, same with VHF. ???????
Okay. I had to look that one up. Obviously, I've read it before and I've been tested on it. My conclusion at the time was that I did not need to have Radar turned on unless it would assist in identifying a collision risk. Rule 7 pretty much backs that up. Here's the exact text from the COLREGS Rule 7 that refers to radar:
"(a) Every vessel shall use all available means appropriate to the prevailing circumstances and conditions to determine if risk of collision exists. If there is any doubt such risk shall be deemed to exist.
(b) Proper use shall be made of radar equipment if fitted and operational, including long-range scanning to obtain early warning of risk of collision and radar plotting or equivalent systematic observations of detected objects.
(c) Assumptions shall not be made on the basis of scanty information, especially scanty radar information."
Okay, so the first paragraph says "all available means appropriate to the prevailing circumstances and conditions." If I have 10 miles visibility, the circumstances don't call for radar to look for collision risks. I can use my eyes. Radar won't even help me if I'm on a narrow, winding body of water such as the inland waterways. In that case, AIS will serve me better and that's not even discussed in the COLREGS. (The school I teach for recommends that AIS be turned on at all times to see other traffic; I can argue that because not all boats have AIS, it should not be relied on. But that's another story.)
Remember, rule 7 is not about radar. It's about using tools to reduce the risk of collision. Radar is one of the tools we have, as is AIS, but neither one of them are better than a pair of eyes when visibility is good. Remember Rule 5:
"Every vessel shall at all times maintain a proper look-out by sight and hearing as well as by all available means appropriate in the prevailing circumstances and conditions so as to make a full appraisal of the situation and of the risk of collision."
I hope that clears this up -- at least from my point of view. COLREGS, like the FAA's FARs, are open to interpretation. But nowhere in rule 7 does it say that radar MUST be turned on.
My good friend runs the great bridge Bridge. That was his voice.
How cool is that!