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Dover traffic lane skipper fined
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Dover traffic lane skipper fined
The skipper of a racing yacht was fined £6000 and £4200 costs today for going the wrong way up a traffic lane in the Dover Straits Traffic Separation Scheme, according to the Maritime & Coastguard Agency (MCA). The agency reports that on 13th May 2007 the racing yacht 'Mean Machine' was on a positioning voyage from Portsmouth, UK to Scheveningen, Netherlands prior to taking part in a race. At about 1850 the yacht was detected slowly entering the South West lane on a heading of 055 degrees. She then proceeded for 6.5 miles in the wrong direction in the South West lane, contrary ...Read More... Full Story »
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