CRASH! Are we sinking? Collision at sea. Ep 238 

floating block of apartments, pretty obvious what sort of boat it was eh?

Yeah, amazing that they would deicide to save the $1000 on the AIS system. Its not a legal requirement to have it in Australia.

Coulda been sooo much worse

Fingers crossed!

There's no doubt I shoulder some of the blame

Thanks, will do!

Thanks guys. Another story for when I'm old and boring.

Thanks! Amsa said 90/10, I’d have been willing to accept 70/30.

Thanks for the tips! Should be all pretty straight forward I reckon

Thanks 👍

Thanks mate.

More of a madness than I hoped for to be honest.

Thanks Shane. Yeah main thing is that only the boat got hurt.

Thats a good question. To be honest I just follow my gut instinct on most things. I try real hard not to be indecisive and believe that you're better off making a wrong decision than making No decision. My memory is not great so I use make lots of lists for things like costs, orders etc. I did speak at length with the man who built Trade Runner and he helped me a lot

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Enjoy your trip south mate.

@@SailingLearningByDoing you to. I see you are getting close now so have a great trip to France. André

Who knows? as always its a matter of wrong place at the wrong time. Shit happens. no one for hurt

oh yeah, could have been so much worse! It will all turn out for the best in the long run, just need to stay positive

Sounds like a cocktail.

Keeping it real.

yeah for sure, thats the main thing

Thanks. So we settled out of court but accident reports were officially filed and judged on.

@VernonDeckLearningByDoing I commend you for your honest transparency. 👏

In some conditions I do, I just use my judgment when

Thanks mate, things worked out pretty well. stay tuned for more news on the repairs.

I hope so too

Thanks mate. Hit me up on email of the Tee. info@vernondeck.com

thanks mate, she'll be good as new in no time

Yep, I'll be flying north again soon as.

I second that! No way Id involve enriching lawyers unless absolutely necessary

thanks

Happily, Trade Runner is not a balsa core but a foam core. We would not trust to have a cat of this age with balsa core.

@@marie-morganerousselin2352 ok, foam is better. But my comment generally applies to all cores, because they’re all weak in tension and shear. I’m just commenting from a professional structural engineering point of view. All the best. Hope it’s an easy fix for you.

Mate, I would never consider buying a Balsa cored Cat! Balsa and Polyester, two of the most used products in todays most shitty boats. Painted cardboard is nearly as good.

Yeah for sure, I've gone of the boat with a fine toothed comb. There wasn't really a big impact, just a glaring blow then they slide along the side.

I'm in Rote now but leaving Monday early. Say hi if you arrive Sunday

I prefer the KISS concept.

I would have had my full wet weather gear on and been keeping a better watch.

Thank for asking! Marie and the baby are doing real well, probably didnt improve the stress levels when I told her about this incident though.

No and No

We did inform our insurance, it didn’t help much in our case but they were knowing what happened

Yes it is me, arrived last night from kupang. The videos are a bit behind now and I've been ripping since getting the repairs done. here for a few days rest now.

indeed

Yeah it seems an odd place to save a little bit of money, AIS is pretty damn good and money well spent imho

Oh wow 😮! Sounds to be a crazy story, I will check that !

@@marie-morganerousselin2352 one of the men was French and two Russians, circumnavigating on a 9 metre pool toy 🦈

Thise guys are pretty legendary explorers mate. Pretty scary.

@@SailingLearningByDoing it’s not like the media to blow it up but now they have reported they were cookie cutter sharks bitting at the pontoons, Not White or Mako sharks

It put stress's on my brains bulkheads thats for sure.

@@SailingLearningByDoing Smart to not buy a brand new boat as it would be that much more frustrating to have a collision. Good on you.

@@UUBrahman haha, it had nothing to do with being smart and all to do with not having to he millions needed for a new boat.

Thanks. I'm not beating myself up about it but for sure am using it to learn from. No-one is perfect and we all make mistakes, most important is to learn form them and hopefully not make the same one again

I did have it one and was monitoring all other boats on the screen but the boat in question didn't have AIS. Not a legal requirement in Australia.

@@SailingLearningByDoing maybe it should be..

@@MrFastFarmer higher than my pay grade mate.

Very surprised a commercial charter boat not having ais, good to know

Sometimes a hot coffee takes priority I guess.

@@SailingLearningByDoing y that was the thinking of the other skipper and see where that landed him. making a parallell with the aviation industry here: the biggest accident was the Pan Am-KLM colision that happened on the floor whilst the KLM was taxing was the Pan Am was landing (or the other way around), the KLM captain was super experienced, close to retire Nd chose to ignore atc to stanby at that position leading up to the ground coliision upon landing. i repeat, he was really experienced and because of that was so confident that he ignored the rules. i get what you say specially if you are single handling, but slowing or stoping the boat might be the difference between hitting something or not. Its the coffe that has to be integrated into the look out not the other way around, if we want to mitigate risk

@@pmnfernando why does everyone reference the aviation industry? As far as the transport industry is concerned, sailing is closer to the horse and carriage than an aeroplane.

@@SailingLearningByDoing o dont know why everybody references it, i referece it because my old man is a pilot and because i know for a fact that the standard of training is way ahead. and it has to be: a plane climbs hundreds ofmeters every 3 seconds should the pilot floors it

@@SailingLearningByDoing i also happen to be a RYA YM Offshore, and were commercially endorsed for a few years. it has since expired because my STCW95 expired. ie, i could, if i retake the STCW and have a medical done, work as a commercial skipper on those fugly lagoons taking shit faced ppl out for a spin.

Yeah a block of floating flats. They had no AIS installed. I carefully checkout out the board case and apart from some paint there's no damage there. dodged a bullet I reckon

I will let Vern answer to you but in this situation, I don’t think solo sailing is the issue. Vern would have been way more aware on watch if he was not having new crew, you are chatting, and get less focus, for few seconds and boom, it can happen, especially in a busy place as the Whitsundays. He is fully aware that he has is part of responsibility. But about continuing solo sailing, for me it is all about risk/reward. First Vern decided to buy a boat to solo sail, that was is first goal, and he is accepting the risks. I mean, driving a car to go to job is also a risk, you could be not focus for a second and have a big crash, when he was snowboarding backcountry, he had to face some situations with avalanches and accidents, even when you think you are doing only safe things, with all the insurances possible, bad things can still happen. If we were only sailing with perfect conditions, with big crew, staying safely in marina in hurricane season, paying insurances for everything, maybe we would be more wise and safe, but we would be so bored 😂 ! We are continuously learning, trying to learn of our mistakes. We are not taking risks for nothing, but we know that our lifestyle, the things we like to do, are coming with their lot of risks, and this is life. Maybe I am not objective cause I am taking about my partner and lover, but I am glad he sailed some legs solo, for his pleasure but also cause he would he would be way behind if he was waiting for a skilled crew member for every sailing passages, and I would give birth without him 😂

Hi Pat. Im glad you feel qualified to judge this case differently than Marine Safety Queensland and Australian Marine Safety Australia. They both came up with 90-10 based on their investigations. I'm so thankful for your report of a 50-50 finding, means a lot. And no, they did not forget the under sail/power rule, they know all the rules.

So you think there should be a crew member posted up on the bows at all times on passage? I dont start my engines for days at a time, its fine. How may boats get thier engines fired up daily? About none I'd say. Fine if you want to do it but completely unnecessary.

​@@SailingLearningByDoingonya Vernon. This dick obviously a dockside sailor. 😒

You're a treasure Marie ❤