Man overboard recovery practice

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A few years ago some of met at Marconi Sailing Club moorings and had a very instructive session with Guinea pigs in the water. An excellent BBQ in evening.

I still have the mag article with ideas to try which I can email round and I have been given a liferaft to launch. So would anybody be interested? The only weekend I have free is 3-4 September. Somebody else can run it of course, I'm not an expert.

Is an alternative venue better?
 
MoodySabre said:
A few years ago some of met at Marconi Sailing Club moorings and had a very instructive session with Guinea pigs in the water. An excellent BBQ in evening.

I still have the mag article with ideas to try which I can email round and I have been given a liferaft to launch. So would anybody be interested? The only weekend I have free is 3-4 September. Somebody else can run it of course, I'm not an expert.

Is an alternative venue better?
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Roger could we involve the RNLI?
 
3/4 September I am on Grandad duties in North Wales..... but I would be up for it, as I had to miss the last one due to working away from home
 
I'd think the club (Marconi) would be happy to host again - I'll ask and see if we can use a rib as previously to provide a) support and b) a platform for taking pics... Saturday avoids club racing.
HT at 15:30 means we'd have access to the shore via the pontoon in the afternoon...
 
Jane is on board that weekend so if we're back in the water and able to go sailing we might venture round into those fearsome waters they call Black

If it's a different weekend we'll make it if we can
 
Sounds great!

I organised a similar thing, 11 years ago, for Weir Quay Sailing Club, when we lived in Devon.

It was my 50th birthday, in fact, and, as there were no other volunteers to be the man overboard, I donned my drysuit, and played the unconscious victim for all the half dozen or so boats.

The rule was that I had to be got on deck by only one onboard crew member (all the boats were crewed by couples). These included some every experienced coastal and ocean cruising people, and the really sobering, eye opening result, was that not one of them managed to get me aboard, even though we were anchored in calm conditions in Jennycliff Bay (Plymouth Sound).

Mainsheets, and block and tackle type arrangements hauled up on halyards, all failed. Some struggled to lift me even a foot out the water.

The nearest to success was using an old Firefly jib, with the foot tied to the toe rail, and spinnker halyard at the head. In this I was very easily, securely, and comfortably, hauled up to the sheer, but they couldn't get me through the guardrails without me assisting.

It was a really good, instructive, and fun way to spend my birthday (with a BBQ on the beach in the evening), and very worthwhile.

I'd definitely be interested in doing something similar, but 3rd September, by a strange coincidence, is again my birthday, but this year I'll be in Italy, for a nephew's wedding.

If it's another date .... well .... the same drysuit still fits me, so I'll be happy to be a victim again.
 
NealB said:
Sounds great!

I organised a similar thing, 11 years ago, for Weir Quay Sailing Club, when we lived in Devon.
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Although not members, we knew WQSC well.

We sailed from there many times as visitors when we were GP14 sailors, racing and cruising in company up and down the Tamar and into the Sound. Good times.

Probably didn't overlap, we were there on and off throughout the 90's.
 
I read with interest the report someone did on here of the previous one, and would be keen to join in if we can make the new date.

NealB said:
I organised a similar thing, 11 years ago, for Weir Quay Sailing Club, when we lived in Devon.
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Saguday said:
Although not members, we knew WQSC well. . . .

Probably didn't overlap, we were there on and off throughout the 90's.
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I used to keep my boat (Hurley 22 at the time) on a boatyard mooring at Weir Quay, 1990s.
 
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