Mont St Michel displays Aground lights constanty?

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[The Ferry Man]

Hey guys,

Twice I have seen the Mont St Michel at night, and both times she is displaying what are on the SSE game as running aground red lights - three red lights on the mast? She was clearly not aground, so any ideas?

Thanks

TFM

[--tractorman--]

Looks like its back to the research board for VSTEP!

[Ballast]

Hi TFM,

She's showing 3 all-round-visible red lights, meaning that she is restricted by draft. All other vessels (including sailing-, and fishing vessels) should give way to her.

I tried it on SSE and it looks like that only the Pride of Rotterdam shows 3 all-round-lights. All other vessels show 2 all-round-visible lights which are the right lights.



They aren't consistant with the lights in SSE, in some occasion they show only 2 red all-round-visible and in other occasions they show the same lights in combination with the anchor lights. Just the 2 red lights means that the vessel is not under command and not underway but afloat. The combination with anchor lights, means she's aground.

[The Ferry Man]

thanks for the info Ballast 

I wonder why she is showing limited draught - she is the same draught as the Norman Spirit and Bretagne and less then the PoB, and neither of them showed it.

Well Thanks Ballast

[Ballast]

Maybe a silly question, but all vessels were in the same port? Needles to say that, for example, a draught of 17 meters in Dover strait is a different cookie then on the Atlantic 

[The Ferry Man]

This was the same port - Portsmouth, taken from the same day