RNLI

[motorbiking]

Only needed if > 2.5m or 4.5kW.

Ferrying people for money, but even if you want to pretend they are leisure craft…
Average boat has a 10kW motor and is around 10m+

A 2.5m boat typically has a capacity of 3 adults and a 4.5kw engine is around 6hp

 

[Koolpc]

French should be forced to act. They are obviously glad to see them off their shores.....

We need a blockade to stop the small dinghys leaving French waters..

 

[aveatry]

What is the actual French coastline length that the illegals float from.

 

[fixitflav]

Yes.

Just as it is with mountain rescue teams, cave rescue teams, doctors treating stroke, heart attack, diabetes, cancer, gang violence victims.

I've a suggestion for anybody not wanting to risk drowning in the Channel - don't get in a boat and try to illegally migrate to the UK. They could try claiming asylum in one of the several safe countries they've passed through. And that's the minority who are fleeing a genuinely unsafe country, leaving their women and children behind to face the danger.

 

[motorbiking]

What is the actual French coastline length that the illegals float from.

Increasingly they are setting off up river, but they are easy to track once they start heading for the U.K.

The radar I have on my boat would pick them up and the coastguard has much better kit on board.

 

[aveatry]

Increasingly they are setting off up river, but they are easy to track once they start heading for the U.K.
The radar I have on my boat would pick them up and the coastguard has much better kit on board.

So the French could easily rescue them and save their lives 20 foot off the French shoreline.

 

[motorbiking]

Of course and it’s what we pay them to do.

Perhaps the money would be better spent intercepting and turning back. It’s not Brexit that stops us.

 

[Koolpc]

Of course and it’s what we pay them to do.

Perhaps the money would be better spent intercepting and turning back. It’s not Brexit that stops us.

Yea, just tow them back to French waters...

 

[motorbiking]

They are long low powered vessels with flat bottoms. A jet ski is all you need to gently turn them away.

If they approach from the starboard side the small boat is required to give way.

 

[noseall]

The boats are illegal under French law. They are not coded or registered.

Is that anything to do with their seaworthiness argument?

 

[noseall]

French should be forced to act.

They do act. What made you hallucinate that they don’t?

 

[Highway Man]

They do act. What made you hallucinate that they don’t?

The hallucination of the daily arrivals that we pretend not to see arriving.

 

[noseall]

The hallucination of the daily arrivals that we pretend not to see arriving.

That doesn’t answer the question boyo.
Poor deflection.

 

[Highway Man]

That doesn’t answer the question boyo.
Poor deflection.

Answers it perfectly. If the French were doing what we pay them to do then we wouldn’t see the police just stood on the beach watching them fill the boats 100 yards from them. We wouldn’t have so many arrivals either. A quick harpoon into one of the chambers would be enough to prevent them from leaving.

 

[fillyboy]

That doesn’t answer the question boyo.
Poor deflection.

It does answer the question, I even gave him a 'thwanks' for it to get you aroused.