![]() ![]() ![]() He asked what type of vessel we were and where were we headed etc. We immediatly changed to another channel and the guy on the other end at one of the Welsh Coastwatch stations apologised for troubling me saying that it was a very quiet watch and they were doing an exercise using our boat. I said I believe you may be trying to contact my boat as we are close to the position given and ais/radar and mk1 eyeball could see no other vessel and in fact we hadn't seen another boat all day. If the caller had preceded his short call with something like "This is Coastwatch, this is Coastwatch, this is Coastwatch" then perhaps immediate attention would have been drawn to the call.Īnyway, I responded to the call on Ch16 after we were over halfway accross to Fishguard not knowing who was making the call. We partly ignored the call early on as we were missing those first words "the vessel in position" and sadly none of the call was repeated. ![]() When daylight came and I was less busy with thinking and concentrating on other things in the challenging conditions, I eventually caught the call in its entirity and managed to confirm the caller was saying something to the effect of "The vessel in position N.W. It was not a Mayday or Pan Pan.Īlthough we couldn't readily make out all the call content, it was repeated several times each hour. Soon after passing the southern end of Arklow bank we heard a call on VHF Ch16. Swmbo and I recently came from Arklow accross the Irish Sea to Fishguard starting out in the early hours. ![]()
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