On Mon, 10 Mar 2008 11:42:10 -0500, you wrote: >should ware a harness in the cock-pit when sitting too. > >Yanni Marinated >S/V Princess Thalia >Hamilton-Fifty Point @H3 >www.yannismarine.ca
We wear PFDs when underway, but we don't usually attach the harness to the jacklines unless we are going on deck. We have also practiced pulling each other out of the water (at anchor - I think it would be too much to expect me to pull him out if we were underway). And we also assume that the person in the water is conscious and can move a little. When we are cruising, whether underway or at anchor or even at the dock, we leave the stern boarding ladder half deployed so that someone in the water could pull it down (there's a line on it) and climb out. Because I HAVE fallen off. I backed off the end of the dock while I was folding sails in November in the Chesapeake. My first thought as I hit the water was - I'm going to die of hypothermia. I found that the dock ladders (and there were some) were missing the lower rungs and since it was low tide, I couldn't reach the bottom rung with my feet, nor can I chin myself. I did not think that I could have just swum over to the power boat with the stern platform on the other side of the pier (after all if ducks can use it, I should be able to also). Or if I had swum farther around there was a beach area. Eventually Bob pushed the dinghy out so he could get the ladder down, but if it starts half way down, he wouldn't even have to do that. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Corinne Sutter-Brown > To: [email protected] > Sent: Monday, March 10, 2008 10:17 AM > Subject: Re: [Liveaboard] I made it, But > Solo sailors (and not so solo) should also be wearing a harness when on > deck, too. > Corinne > > I have heard that some long distance solo sailors throw a floating line > overboard. Knotted every 2 feet, big enough knots so your feet can use them > as a support when climbing back towards the boat (maybe an oyster knot). The > rope is several hundred feet long and ends in a fender, Remember that at 6 > kn, you are traveling about 10 feet every second. After falling overboard, > you have about 15 seconds to swim to the rope! At 12 kn the boat will > hopefully broach without someone at the helm, because it will be 200 feet > away at 10 seconds > > Peter grandma Rosalie S/V RosalieAnn, Leonardtown, MD CSY 44 WO #156 http://home.mindspring.com/~gmbeasley/id1.html _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://www.liveaboardnow.org/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardnow.org/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
