The Rules you can ignore

Excellent article by Andy du Port in the April edition of YM. At times light-hearted but always very clear instead of giving a boring full printout of the Colregs. Bravo Andy!

I still have a question. I have crossed the Channel many times, and hit most of the TSS between Dartmouth and the Adriatic when I sailed my boat from Dartmouth to Dubrovnik. Fortunately I have both radar and AIS (Tx & Rx) so it is easy to see the ships travelling along a TSS in each direction. As Andy du Port said of TSS in general it was like ‘crossing the M25 on foot’.

I have found myself often facing a long line of ships in the TSS and wondering how on earth I can get across. Yes, I am fully aware of the need to cross with a heading as near as possible to 90°. On occasions I have found ships making a noticeable turn of maybe 5° towards me so it opens up a space behind the ship in front of them for me