tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5105989.post753574850106326877..comments2024-01-08T18:04:52.198-08:00Comments on EVK4 SuperBlog: Cushion OverboardEVK4http://www.blogger.com/profile/02797338920913749383noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5105989.post-57568440598281997492010-06-23T21:43:04.361-07:002010-06-23T21:43:04.361-07:00I was in a MOB drill with a cap one time.
The im...I was in a MOB drill with a cap one time. <br /><br />The important thing was that it was a cap off of somebody else's boat. It was returned very publicly & with all proper ceremony back at the dock.bonniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04794351142636136626noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5105989.post-17743178395204460902010-06-23T21:33:53.857-07:002010-06-23T21:33:53.857-07:00One of our sailing instructors in Santa Barbara ha...One of our sailing instructors in Santa Barbara had tested a Lifesling when they first came out; he went overboard and pretended to be unconscious, and his 9-year-old daughter retrieved him with it.<br /><br />Of course, this might have been a particularly resourceful 9-year-old, as she had been sailing since she was a toddler.Carol Annehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07201269435839112134noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5105989.post-90931586345750439322010-06-22T20:55:11.050-07:002010-06-22T20:55:11.050-07:00Tillerman: So have you drilled it? Anybody?
(Cric...<b>Tillerman: So have you drilled it? Anybody?</b><br /><br />(Crickets chirping) <br /><br />That means someone going in the water. And getting wet. And cold.<br /><br />Seriously, no, we haven't. This needs to be done very carefully, as these kind of drills sometimes go fatally wrong. We've got the lifesling, we've read the articles and seen the pretty pictures.<br /><br />During my 2008 return passage, we knocked a strobe overboard in moderate seas. That's about as close as I've gotten to a real-world recovery drill.Paulhttp://www.sailvalis.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5105989.post-5550207486601332272010-06-22T18:50:55.044-07:002010-06-22T18:50:55.044-07:00So have you drilled it? Anybody?So have you drilled it? Anybody?Tillermanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00639738519386820997noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5105989.post-77526753179303457902010-06-22T08:18:14.359-07:002010-06-22T08:18:14.359-07:00Quite a bit of in-the-water research has been done...Quite a bit of in-the-water research has been done into retrieving actual people right here in SF Bay.<br /><br />West Marine and others have sponsored this, with a number of recovery techniques evaluated using divers in survival suits and various keelboats and recovery rigs.<br /><br />Most of the results pointed to the Lifesling <i>plus some other lifting tackle</i> as the best means for a short-handed crew to get someone back on the boat.<br /><br />But they also emphasized that no rig was much good unless the crew had drilled in its use.<br><br>O Dockerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08674140306304705852noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5105989.post-5589155846890560562010-06-22T04:07:19.696-07:002010-06-22T04:07:19.696-07:00Thanks Paul. I asked because my son and I did a ba...Thanks Paul. I asked because my son and I did a bareboat cruising preparation course a few years ago and we did the usual MOB drills with cushions or something similar. I had no difficulty sailing the boat back to the cushion, but I was left with an uncomfortable feeling that if it were my son in the water (or me) and especially if the person in the water was unable to help, the hardest part would have been getting the MOB back OB. Do people practice that part with a real M?<br /><br />I'm also thinking that I need to learn wet rescues for kayaking if I do any more of that.Tillermanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00639738519386820997noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5105989.post-50463438952011623352010-06-21T22:35:57.747-07:002010-06-21T22:35:57.747-07:00Have you ever noticed the irony in the fact that c...Have you ever noticed the irony in the fact that cushions never fall overboard yet we spend all of our time practicing their rescue?<br><br>O Dockerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08674140306304705852noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5105989.post-27153737407469752422010-06-21T20:56:48.256-07:002010-06-21T20:56:48.256-07:00Tillerman, we actually discussed the differences b...Tillerman, we actually discussed the differences between a cushion/boathook recovery, and an actual MOB. We've got the regulation "halyard that reaches the water" (actually, several), so if the victim is conscious it shouldn't be impossible. Unconscious, we might have to resort to inflating the dinghy, or using the stern ladder (conditions permitting), etc. Bottom line, stay tethered and don't fall off the boat.<br /><br />After finishing MOB practice, we were monitoring the VHF and listening to the USCG and two pleasure boats trying to rescue four (!) kayakers from the water near McCovey Cove. Theories abounded.Paulhttp://www.sailvalis.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5105989.post-73032193170816820122010-06-21T19:05:11.905-07:002010-06-21T19:05:11.905-07:00Dangerous no doubt. But these guys had it really c...Dangerous no doubt. But these guys had it really cushy.<br /><br />And they didn't have to put up with the "associate staff" at the sailing school in Santa Barbara.Pathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13417115374524861438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5105989.post-69322451780334370862010-06-21T18:01:40.113-07:002010-06-21T18:01:40.113-07:00How would the drill have been different if you had...How would the drill have been different if you had been trying to pull a real, possibly unconscious, person out of the water?Tillermanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00639738519386820997noreply@blogger.com