River Hamble

If there is shipping lanes, get out of them, either with your sails or just let them drift.

If, however, so going back onto the subject that we're in the Solent area, we're near the Hamble or between the Hamble River and Cowes, which is probably one of the busiest shipping lanes in Europe.

If you are in that shipping lane and there are ships around, you want to be able to notify the Coast Guard, but also the harbour authority, because the ships themselves, they're probably not monitoring the international cooling and distress channel, which is channel 16 VHF.

They may have it on, but they've got other priorities.

automatic identification system and you can see the name

of it and you can call them up by name so you can literally be like hi giant cruise ship that's coming towards me is there any possibility you can not hit me away

um so many years ago as you've asked me before i used to be a coxswain on a harbor patrol vessel for the port of southampton and going through the central solent we would often escort or patrol large cruise ships tankers container ships etc and we would be patrolling about a thousand meters ahead of it a thousand yards um And coming out of Hamble River once, we had a solo sailor under engine.

And for some bizarre reason, he decided to cross the shipping channel as he could see this ship coming outside of out of Southampton.