sign language for boats

[glen]

managed to get a flyer yesterday and got the boat out for a couple of ours, just got a few mackie for wa supper, i just got past the piers and just drifted about, the tide was quite quick and it wasnt to long before we were near the cans, i started to head in about 5 oclock tea time, and about midway between the cans and the noth pier i was speedily aproached by a belting boat ,nice twin motors on the back ive seen it come in before with shelfish of some sort and people picking it up from the quays,any way they asked where we were going and i replied the tyne, i could hardly make out what he was saying but it was like i couldnt go near the shore and to the piers, i had to go out to sea ,past his orange bouy and as i was going out he kept waving his arm up and down as if drawing mountains in mid air, he definately wasnt shaking his fist , would he have had nets out if so what for and what was the sign language, didnt know weather i was doing reet or rang, if your reading this mate i'll no next time, any comments


cheers
glen

 

[mickthefish]

slow down ?????

 

[glen]

i we cannot get much slower she'll only do 7 knots flat oot

cheers
glen

 

[mick dunn]

Sounds like one of them boats they use in the caribbean for drug running. There was no royal navy nearby.

 

[glen]

no its definately a modern pot haul/fishing boat moored in royal quays, i ve seem them go out many times looks like there lively hood, blaired past us on the way in, looked like they were netting summit i think, its just the up and down hand signals got me,

i maybe should have asked what they were doing, just looked like they had done it often and that was their bit of sea, ''seemed very forthright what''i they also said if we saw them again it was best to head for their boat, just to be safe, i also saw them re direct a speedboat


cheers
glen
cheers
glen

 

[Charlton]

Glen. he is one of the local salmon fishermen, he was warning you where his nets where, the orange bouys are at each end of the net, the rest of the net hangs just on the surfcae between them, he will have been motoring up and down the lenght letting you know where it was. You dont want a salmon net wrapped round your prop so i would keep a good eye out on future at this time of year

 

[Norman]

Yeah glen as alan says they put out a straight net like drift netting with a bouy at the end, as a guide they sit on the other end with boat facing up the net so in general if thay are at drift then you can go to stern of them safely. If they are motoring its generally to get to the end of their net before you do.

ps they only work through the week so never have any problems at weekends.

 

[mark]

I thought all the netting licences had been bought out by the bywell syndicate?

 

[Norman]

Dont know about that mark but there`s the usual notice up in marina to watch out for them to save fouling your prop

 

[glen]

thanks for that lads
ill know next time

cheers

glen

 

[mark]

maybe they've re-let some of them?? dunno. It was about three years ago that I read they'd bought all the netting licences from the coquet to the wear to try get more salmon upriver

 

[davem2005]

I've had a few hand signals off yachtsmen moored at the side of the ouse at York when we were skiing up and down the river. This sounds like a very similar up and down gesture to the one they were making :0