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21-01-2017, 14:43
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Marine Service Provider
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"funny things" floating 20 miles E of Gibraltar
So that happened to me a couple of weeks ago.
I went close to the floating thingys to have a look and the speed boat on the image approached me right away and convinced me to keep sailing
what would you guys have done?
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21-01-2017, 18:49
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Long Range Cruiser
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Australian living on "Sea Life" currently in England.
Boat: Beneteau 393 "Sea Life"
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Re: "funny things" floating 20 miles E of Gibraltar
Long line floats or something?
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21-01-2017, 18:53
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Senior Cruiser
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Location: 29° 49.16’ N 82° 25.82’ W
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Re: "funny things" floating 20 miles E of Gibraltar
Quote:
Originally Posted by YesIsail
what would you guys have done?
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Is this a trick question? Do I get three guesses?
How about profess ignorance and haul ass in the opposite direction with great expediency.
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21-01-2017, 18:54
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Re: "funny things" floating 20 miles E of Gibraltar
You didn’t say where you are (EDIT: ah, right … I need another beer )
Looks a lot like fishing nets common on the Great Lakes. They hang down from the buoys, some deeper than others. I’d guess some sort of fishing gear … but that’s a pretty scary (and useless) looking fishing boat.
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21-01-2017, 18:57
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Re: "funny things" floating 20 miles E of Gibraltar
20 miles east of Gibralter, attention to detail!
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21-01-2017, 19:02
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Re: "funny things" floating 20 miles E of Gibraltar
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21-01-2017, 19:24
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Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: Here, not there.
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Re: "funny things" floating 20 miles E of Gibraltar
The boys in boat appear in fairly good shape, young and unlike most fisherman up this way, have a military look to them, along with rig they are on.
We see and hear lots of spook boat stories up here.
Rib's going buy silently in the nite, with blacked out running mode engaged, Coasties shadow you in the fog, yet you hail them on radio to ask, and they glide off, so yes, I'd be on my merry way...........
All good I guess, unless your da bad guy!
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21-01-2017, 19:36
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Re: "funny things" floating 20 miles E of Gibraltar
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21-01-2017, 19:38
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Join Date: Mar 2015
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Re: "funny things" floating 20 miles E of Gibraltar
Doesn't look like a fishing boat to me and those floats don't look like they are holding up much either!!
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21-01-2017, 19:43
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Re: "funny things" floating 20 miles E of Gibraltar
Could be scientists.... True doesn't look like holding much up (rmiker).
Like MarkJ said could be longlines they don't weigh that much necessarily.
We will never know.
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21-01-2017, 20:33
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Location: Fiji Airways/ Lake Ontario
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Re: "funny things" floating 20 miles E of Gibraltar
I was sailing off Sodus Point on Lake Ontario when a small aircraft flew overhead and a white "box" came out and fell to the water. I was smart enough not to use the VHF, instead called 911. I was told to ignore it. I did.
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21-01-2017, 21:08
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Senior Cruiser
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Re: "funny things" floating 20 miles E of Gibraltar
I detect a certain touch of innocence/naivete in some of the responses.
Is it possible that the unmarked, well equipped, very high powered RIB is retrieving items that have been dropped 20 miles off the coast of Europe by another boat, possibly from the African continent?
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21-01-2017, 21:13
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Re: "funny things" floating 20 miles E of Gibraltar
Reminds me of my days in Gibraltar .Would go out (usually west) and meet a freighter from somewhere and transfer cases of stuff ,,,,cameras,cigarettes ,tea ,who knows .Little known beaches around Ceuta and Morocco were frequented. Finally the Spanish police used machine guns to dissuade and I sailed to Trinidad Ah,those were fun days.
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21-01-2017, 21:50
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2016
Location: PNW
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Re: "funny things" floating 20 miles E of Gibraltar
Ordinarily, I tack well short of anything that looks like it might have a net or lines attached to it. In my area, the natives use blocks of white styrofoam with a similar aspect ratio... but those look more like food-grade jugs of some sort... not bearing any kind of load. And I've never seen a net tender powered like that... Who knows? Kind of looks like they're setting up for target practice, to me. Keep clear.
As a matter of fact, I did once have an experiment not too far from Gibraltar, hanging from an anchored float. People would always **** with it. Even if I wrote explanations on the float, in English and Español, pleading people to leave it alone, someone would eventually **** with it. Finally, I tied the float a couple of feet below the surface, and took careful bearings to a couple of points on shore.
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21-01-2017, 22:47
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Re: "funny things" floating 20 miles E of Gibraltar
I probably would have opened fire on them.
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