coal ships?

She-Wolf · 12-26-07, 04:34 PM

Twice now, once in the North Sea and once in an estuary, I have come across a boat with beacons and all its interior lights ablaze - which is manned, because the estuary one obligingly shifted back when I came close to it - and then a fair distance from it, but parallel, another boat, sitting dark and motionless in the water.

In the North Sea I was told I was approaching a 'coal boat', which I assume is the dark one, and that the lightship is a marker to warn the rest of us to stay clear - but coal boat?? A dredger in the estuary I can understand ( my number one son used to operate the plant on one of them), but a COAL boat, sitting in the middle of the North Sea eh?? Is this the nautical equivalent of digging for victory??

I steered between the two and found no reason to regret it

12-26-07, 04:34 PM	#1
She-Wolf Watchdog Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Hampshire UK Posts: 971 Downloads: 152 Uploads: 0	coal ships? Twice now, once in the North Sea and once in an estuary, I have come across a boat with beacons and all its interior lights ablaze - which is manned, because the estuary one obligingly shifted back when I came close to it - and then a fair distance from it, but parallel, another boat, sitting dark and motionless in the water. In the North Sea I was told I was approaching a 'coal boat', which I assume is the dark one, and that the lightship is a marker to warn the rest of us to stay clear - but coal boat?? A dredger in the estuary I can understand ( my number one son used to operate the plant on one of them), but a COAL boat, sitting in the middle of the North Sea eh?? Is this the nautical equivalent of digging for victory?? I steered between the two and found no reason to regret it __________________