Can’t help but jump in. If someone goes overboard and there are enough people on board, someone should be assigned to watch the mob at all times. A person in the water can be hard to see and easy to lose track of. Learned that in the CG. Also, we have a friend (female) who fell overboard from her large boat while single handing in the Northwest. Somehow she grabbed the trailing dinghy as it went by and was able to pull herself up to the transom and get back on board. I sure wouldn’t bet on that to work very often. Dave. SLY 1975 C&C 33
Sent from my iPad > On Mar 3, 2020, at 7:26 PM, James Nichols via CnC-List > <cnc-list@cnc-list.com> wrote: > > 100% agree Andy. I think that 50/50 chance of getting back on board is only > if someone sees you go overboard also. If you are on watch alone, your > chances drop to pretty much nil. > > James > > From: CnC-List [mailto:cnc-list-boun...@cnc-list.com] On Behalf Of Andrew > Burton via CnC-List > Sent: Tuesday, March 03, 2020 11:55 AM > To: cnc-list@cnc-list.com > Cc: Andrew Burton > Subject: Re: Stus-List Dumb question of the day - life rings, horseshoe or > cushion? > > > > One of the things I stress before we head offshore is that if someone goes > overboard, absolutely everything that floats should be tossed in after them. > You're trying to create a debris field to aid in locating the MOB, not just > give them something to hang on to. > > Another thing I stress is that if you go overboard, you stand at best a > 50/50 chance of being retrieved, so stay on the boat! > > Andy > > Masquerade > > > > > > Andrew Burton > 26 Beacon Hill > Newport, RI > USA 02840 > http://sites.google.com/site/andrewburtonyachtservices/ > > https://burtonsailing.com/ > phone +401 965 5260 > > > _______________________________________________ > > Thanks everyone for supporting this list with your contributions. Each and > every one is greatly appreciated. If you want to support the list - use > PayPal to send contribution -- https://www.paypal.me/stumurray > _______________________________________________ Thanks everyone for supporting this list with your contributions. Each and every one is greatly appreciated. If you want to support the list - use PayPal to send contribution -- https://www.paypal.me/stumurray
