Best wishes.

Umm - warning. I have experience that a genuine, pressing and valuable need for sympathy is quickly evaporated by SWMBOs. Well I have only one SWMBO but several evaporations of sympathy.......

Sobering experience especially you had not made a mistake, just events taking control. So pleased the aftermath was so well managed and nothing permanent caused. You are now going to have to take over command and get the previous bosses to take up crewing duties. :D:D
 
Well done family, sounds awful. Hope you get better soon. Learning points so far are to go downwind, anything else? Were you clipped on? It must have been quite a ride to dislocate your shoulder like that. Now that you have tried it out and didn't seem to enjoy the experience I want to avoid it! Maybe get a roller genoa?
 
Learning points: do the job going downwind and rehearse emergency procedures, SWMBO has done a PAN PAN on behalf of another boat but if I'd been unconscious they might not have spotted the shock I was going into, I could tell I was and told them and the LB crew what to do about it. The single biggest learning point for us is a thorough prep of the boat before setting out, after all it was only a short trip down the coast wasn't it :o

Yes clipped on, a rule we all enforce on each other whenever there is "weather" and always underway for the small ones.

By the way, kudos to Nimrod the miniature Dachshund, he heard my shouts and came out of his bed in the wheelhouse and curled up next to me, never left until the paramedics wanted to board and he wanted to kill them. Good boy.
 
Frightening story. Don't be too keen to beat yourself up with procedures, 'what ifs' and 'If onlys'.

What happened to you could happen to any of us.

Get well soon.
 
chinita said:
Frightening story. Don't be too keen to beat yourself up with procedures, 'what ifs' and 'If onlys'.

What happened to you could happen to any of us.

Get well soon.
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Thanks for that bit of perspective I've been rather harsh on myself, with 40 years of sailing this is the first injury and that's not bad. I guess for most injuries a moment's forethought or planning would have avoided it but that's how I've kept myself and the family safe so far, so I'm going to focus on that.
 
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