Hazard spot
English Channel: Heavy shipping traffic
English Channel: One of the busiest waterways in the world, with tidal stream setting across the course. Yachts must cross the traffic lanes at right angles and are still easily overlooked.
- Cause
- Heavy shipping traffic
- Main season
- all year
- Position
- 50° 12,0' N 000° 30,0' E
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English Channel: how the place works
One of the busiest waterways in the world, with a tidal stream setting across the course that can at times exceed a yacht's speed through the water. Traffic separation schemes must be crossed at right angles to the general direction of flow, not on the shortest route to the destination. Visibility and traffic change within the hour.
English Channel: what breaks there
The expensive case is not your own boat but what an avoiding manoeuvre sets off. Add nets, fishing marks and debris in the fairway. And the classic: a crossing with too little in hand, where the stream sets the boat into the separation zone.
English Channel: what this means for your policy
Here it is the liability limit that decides, not the hull cover. Anyone who forces or hits a commercial vessel faces figures that have nothing to do with the value of their own boat. Check your limit before you cross, not afterwards.
Read this in full: Here the limit of indemnity decidesCruising range
This spot lies in the cruising range the calculator lists under this step: EU inland waters
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