Chichester Yacht Club Magazine December 2017 | Page 15

Reporting Pot Buoys - by David Burall
Kerenza picked up a pot buoy at around 09.45
on Monday 18 September 2017 at position
50.21,13N / 001.50,99W on passage from
Studland Bay towards Alderney.
The offending pot buoy
Having successfully cut and secured the line,
the engine would not engage forward. We
informed the coastguard, and turned back for
the 25nm to the Solent.
There was some banging on hull... and
subsequently found a line jammed in the
rudder with a pot buoy attached. This was
removed when we arrived at Lymington.
Kerenza suffered damage and delamination to
rudder as a result.
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Delamination
Kerenza’s rudder
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