Essential kit when you go sailing...
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Halcyon Yachts
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Daydream believer
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Spare keel
Serin
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Just roll up in it without zipping it up. I hope you never have to find out why it's important.......
Wansworth
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One skipper I read of took an electric blanket..
jac
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With the batteries and inverter to power that he wouldn't have needed a keel.
Vanilla
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You can make that two now! And a Hot water bottle is essential if no shore power.....I know men profess to hate them but I've met many only too happy to have a cuddle (of the bottle) given half a chance
JumbleDuck
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Just roll up in it without zipping it up. I hope you never have to find out why it's important.......
If the five seconds it takes me to get out of my sleeping bag ever matters, I'll probably be dead in the further ten seconds it takes me to get to the cockpit.
Neil
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Yeah, this 'getting caught up in your sleeping bag' sounds like twaddle to me. I use one, my main problem being doing the potato sack race to the toilet in the middle of a cold night.
Neil
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Actually, this thread resembles, a little, a 'movement' that I came across just yesterday. Cutting a long story short, I started out looking at fire making with a flint and steel and following various links, ended up at the weapons required in the case of a zombie apocalypse. (Rather apt, since I'm catching up with the Walking Dead series)
However, on the way I came upon a huge thing about the 'essential kit' required in the case of the end of civilisation as we know it. Logically, most had as their basis, fire making equipment, a knife, torch, fishing hooks, line, paracord etc. Of course, many had an automatic pistol in there as well......
However, on the way I came upon a huge thing about the 'essential kit' required in the case of the end of civilisation as we know it. Logically, most had as their basis, fire making equipment, a knife, torch, fishing hooks, line, paracord etc. Of course, many had an automatic pistol in there as well......
Serin
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Yeah, this 'getting caught up in your sleeping bag' sounds like twaddle to me. I use one, my main problem being doing the potato sack race to the toilet in the middle of a cold night.
The three friends of mine who drowned in their bunks might have thought so too until they they found out it wasn't.
JumbleDuck
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Mumsnet has a "preppers" forum, neatly and scarily combining the two most paranoid groups of fruitbats in the world. Read it and tremble.
JumbleDuck
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All at the same time? All because of sleeping bags? I think we need to know a little more before giving that too much credence.
Serin
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Same boat, same time.
It really isn't any concern of mine what you think. Knowing what I do, it changed my mind, but I have no interest in trying to change yours and I am certainly not going to start laying out the appalling details of that catastrophe for your entertainment.
JumbleDuck
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My sympathies, but if you want your anecdote to carry weight you really will have to give more information. For example, how far out of their sleeping bags had they managed to get? If the answer is "not at all" then it suggests that the sinking was so fast that they didn't have a chance. If "partly", what sort of sleeping bags were they (rectangular? mummy? zip length?) and how did they sleep (drawstrings tied? arms inside?).
My sleeping bag is a simple rectangular one and even with my arms inside I can get out of it in seconds. Scaremongering, even based on tragedies, won't convince me to change. Evidence might.
Keef
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Crikey! Sleeping bags sound almost as dangerous as Dihydrogen Monoxide. http://www.dhmo.org/facts.html
DHMO is a leading cause of death in people who like to go out and about on boats. In almost all professional or amateur sailors' deaths, DHMO is a major component.
DHMO is a leading cause of death in people who like to go out and about on boats. In almost all professional or amateur sailors' deaths, DHMO is a major component.
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JumbleDuck
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Two relatives of mine died earlier this year, three months and four hundred miles apart. Both had blankets on at the time. Fact.
Keef
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I'm very sorry to hear that, and offer my condolences. I still find it hard to believe that sleeping bags had anything to do with it.
Serin
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"Anecdote??" "Carry weight?" "Have to?" "Blankets"?
What is wrong with your comprehension? Have you not understood that it matters nothing to me what you think of the situation I have touched on. Nothing. Get used to it.
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horatio_nelson
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Who'd have thought sleeping bags capable of such horrors?