Boating 101+7

[Drowned Rat]

You are the Captain of a 65' commercial fishing boat. While pulling in the net after a day of fishing one of your crewmen got his leg hooked in the net and was pulled into the windlass. He is injured badly and you are not able to control the bleeding completely. You are now trying to make it back to port as quickly as possible. You are 23 miles South of the inlet and you are at full speed, 12 knots, heading for home. Off in the distance, approximately 4 or 5 miles to the West, you see what looks like a sailboat, When you look through you binoculars you see 2 flags on the mast.<br /><br />

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<br /><br />The boat appears to be about 25 to 30 feet in length and blue in color, single mast with the sails down. The wind is out of the East at 25 knots and the swells are about 5 feet. Your only VHF radio was damaged earlier in the day and is inoperable. You do however have a backup UHF radio that you must dial in the frequencies to use.<br /><br />What, if anything, is the sailboat communicating? What would be your next course of action? If you wish to communicate by radio, who would you call, what would you tell them, and how would you use your UHF?<br /><br />No tricks here, just a straight forward real life scenario.

 

[tylerin]

Re: Boating 101+7

Those two flags indicate distress and need of assistance. Not sure what to do about it but common sense tells me to continue on coarse and try to communicate the distress signal of the sailboat through your UHF.

 

[SpinnerBait_Nut]

Re: Boating 101+7

That is what they indicate when used together.

 

[SpinnerBait_Nut]

Re: Boating 101+7

Dang tylerin, we good.

 

[roscoe]

Re: Boating 101+7

Its a sailboat, should be an easy kill. Fire one torpedo just aft of mast. <br /><br />The only two flags I have seen on a boat in the last 15 years, were an American flag, and a bikini top (alternate American flag ).