Stryker Vs Barge

[Blacklab]

Dana an I went out on the boat Columbus Day. A little foggy but doable. Water was calm and quiet. Tide just starting to turn to out going. Then bam there it is. A barge running down river. Couldn’t get out of the way fast enough but we survived. No lights no horn no **** you. Went to the beach to Clean our shorts and call the Coast Guard. After talking with them I said there was no horn. there was nothing he was just there 10-15 minutes after that. All boats coming down River were blaring their horns. Dana has a major bruise on her arse. Boats in the shop getting estimates. Thinking won’t get it back till next spring Wow!!! That was a experience I’d rather not have. Thank god we were’t anchored. PS we were not in the channel!!!

[Stein]

Ouch.  I had a semi-close call at B10 a couple years back and went out and bought an AIS radio that connects to my chart plotter.  It only shows boats broadcasting on AIS, but that's all of the commercial traffic as well as bigger rec boats.  It's paid for itself many times over.

[Blacklab]

Owner of tug is playing cya. It will be interesting to see what the dollar amount is to repair our boat.

[Mfowl]

Glad you survived! A downriver tug is nothing to mess with! I've been in some pea soup fog out there, those boats can creep up.

[metlhead]

Who would be considered at fault in this instance?

[rasbo]

Damn that's scary,I had a ship come within 20 yards in the fog fishing,all I heard was a bong bong bong,then there it was. It made my 12 do It boat feel real small

[HntnFsh]

Who would be considered at fault in this instance?

Not the barge.

[Skillet]

Who would be considered at fault in this instance?

Per the COLREGs, if blacklab was anchored AND flying the round black ball, likely the tug. But in many other situations, he would have been the stand-down vessel.

Radar is not that expensive guys, and if you choose to go out in foggy conditions on navigable waters where working men are operating tugs and barges to make a living without radar you are taking on a tremendous risk.

Blacklab, I'm sorry that you and your wife found yourself in this terrifying situation, but you should consider yourself very, very lucky nobody was seriously hurt or killed. 

If you continue to insist on going out in fog on navigable waters, I'd hope you add a radar to the repair/refit bill.  Even if you had right of way per the COLREGs, you still got away with one.  I'm reminded of a famous nautical poem:

"Here lies the body of Johnny O'Day
Who died Preserving His Right of Way.

He was Right, Dead Right, as he sailed along
But he's just as dead as if he'd been wrong."

 

[MADMAX]

Your dang lucky to be alive
Thats a bad day
Good luck
I’d be hoping my insurance would cover it

[Alchase]

Who would be considered at fault in this instance?

Per the COLREGs, if blacklab was anchored AND flying the round black ball, likely the tug. But in many other situations, he would have been the stand-down vessel.

Radar is not that expensive guys, and if you choose to go out in foggy conditions on navigable waters where working men are operating tugs and barges to make a living without radar you are taking on a tremendous risk.

Blacklab, I'm sorry that you and your wife found yourself in this terrifying situation, but you should consider yourself very, very lucky nobody was seriously hurt or killed. 

If you continue to insist on going out in fog on navigable waters, I'd hope you add a radar to the repair/refit bill.  Even if you had right of way per the COLREGs, you still got away with one.  I'm reminded of a famous nautical poem:

"Here lies the body of Johnny O'Day
Who died Preserving His Right of Way.

He was Right, Dead Right, as he sailed along
But he's just as dead as if he'd been wrong."

 

Holy crap!
Glad no one was seriously hurt!

Sadly as Skillet said the downriver tug would have right of way. Even if he did not, it would take lots of proof and a lawsuit to prove otherwise. GPS data may help if you were not in the navigable channel.

[Blacklab]

Thanks for the well wishes guys👍 Yes Dana an I are extremely lucky and thankful. We also know tug had right of way. Where I have an issue. No horn!!! As I said earlier. After reporting to coast guard all ships were sounding off👍  I put in my claim to my ins. Let them do their thing. Hopeing to get boat back by next spring🙏🙏🙏

Mfowl As big and powerful those tugs are. They are extremely scary quiet

[HntnFsh]

Who would be considered at fault in this instance?

Per the COLREGs, if blacklab was anchored AND flying the round black ball, likely the tug. But in many other situations, he would have been the stand-down vessel.

Radar is not that expensive guys, and if you choose to go out in foggy conditions on navigable waters where working men are operating tugs and barges to make a living without radar you are taking on a tremendous risk.

Blacklab, I'm sorry that you and your wife found yourself in this terrifying situation, but you should consider yourself very, very lucky nobody was seriously hurt or killed. 

If you continue to insist on going out in fog on navigable waters, I'd hope you add a radar to the repair/refit bill.  Even if you had right of way per the COLREGs, you still got away with one.  I'm reminded of a famous nautical poem:

"Here lies the body of Johnny O'Day
Who died Preserving His Right of Way.

He was Right, Dead Right, as he sailed along
But he's just as dead as if he'd been wrong."

 

Holy crap!
Glad no one was seriously hurt!

Sadly as Skillet said the downriver tug would have right of way. Even if he did not, it would take lots of proof and a lawsuit to prove otherwise. GPS data may help if you were not in the navigable channel.

Here I am being a keyboard non expert, but I dont think they have to be in the shipping channel.

[HntnFsh]

Thanks for the well wishes guys👍 Yes Dana an I are extremely lucky and thankful. We also know tug had right of way. Where I have an issue. No horn!!! As I said earlier. After reporting to coast guard all ships were sounding off👍  I put in my claim to my ins. Let them do their thing. Hopeing to get boat back by next spring🙏🙏🙏

Mfowl As big and powerful those tugs are. They are extremely scary quiet

I had an extremely close call up by Bonnie. Thought we were anchored way out of the way. By the time we figured out we were right in line with them it was almost too late. Missed us by a few feet. Scared the heck out of us. Learned a good lesson.

Glad you all are ok and wishing you the best in getting fixed up and back on the water!

[Blacklab]

If we had been anchored.  We would not be having this conversation

[Alchase]

Who would be considered at fault in this instance?

Per the COLREGs, if blacklab was anchored AND flying the round black ball, likely the tug. But in many other situations, he would have been the stand-down vessel.

Radar is not that expensive guys, and if you choose to go out in foggy conditions on navigable waters where working men are operating tugs and barges to make a living without radar you are taking on a tremendous risk.

Blacklab, I'm sorry that you and your wife found yourself in this terrifying situation, but you should consider yourself very, very lucky nobody was seriously hurt or killed. 

If you continue to insist on going out in fog on navigable waters, I'd hope you add a radar to the repair/refit bill.  Even if you had right of way per the COLREGs, you still got away with one.  I'm reminded of a famous nautical poem:

"Here lies the body of Johnny O'Day
Who died Preserving His Right of Way.

He was Right, Dead Right, as he sailed along
But he's just as dead as if he'd been wrong."

 

Holy crap!
Glad no one was seriously hurt!

Sadly as Skillet said the downriver tug would have right of way. Even if he did not, it would take lots of proof and a lawsuit to prove otherwise. GPS data may help if you were not in the navigable channel.

Here I am being a keyboard non expert, but I dont think they have to be in the shipping channel.

You could be correct, I could not remember.........

If we had been anchored.  We would not be having this conversation

Scary thought 

My dad and I were fishing Sekiu for Silvers in a Olsen's rental boat. We were pretty far out and had a couple fish already in the boat when fog rolled in. All he had was an old compass. Sound in the fog can be misleading. We could hear the tankers passing, but could not tell where or how close until the fog started to lift, and a tanker was long side of us about 100 feet away. We never heard anything but the bow wave.
We were pretty quiet all the way back to port.