ex Elly 258 Posted July 17, 2020 Share Posted July 17, 2020 Skipper fined $8500 after barge grounding https://www.sunlive.co.nz/news/247762-skipper-fined-8500-after-barge-grounding.html Taking the barge from Coromandel to Great Barrier. GPS was zoomed out, so island not shown. Radar not working properly due to equipment blocking it. Hit the island doing 12 knots at 5am. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ex Machina 390 Posted July 17, 2020 Share Posted July 17, 2020 That blasted thing came way to close to us at hole in the wall on second morning of Akarana 300 coupla years ago . about 5 in the morning too , friggin smoking south all deck working lights blazing and we were going north . Bloody thing ! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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