Captain’s blog: Medway Morning Mooring
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Here’s Captain Mike’s take on today’s events, written for his personal blog 
“Rainbow Warrior you are entering the Medway compulsory pilotage area without a pilot. You must stop your vessel and leave the area. You are breaking maritime law.” That’s what the Medway Vessel Traffic Service told me this morning. But,
I kept the throttle down and Rainbow Warrior (flanked by eight zodiacs)
pointing at an antiquated technology that is consuming the planet. I did inform the VTS when we passed Grain Edge navigation buoy, that we’d entered the Medway channel. I chose not to take a pilot this morning for fear of implicating my fellow mariners in a civilly disobedient activity. In
the past week I have done two trips down the Medway, past Kingsnorth,
to Chatham Ness – both trips under pilotage with me paying utmost
attention to the local navigation.
Read the rest (and while you’re there, have a good browse – Mike writes beautifully).