Perhaps a valid point?

[iangrant]

A friend and me are off across the channel with our eldest daughters - our two wives following on the ferry with our youngest to meet up in Guernsey.
The other eveing my wife came down to the boat. (After recovering items I have smuggled out of the house for the last nine months) She bashed her ankle on one of the securing points in the cockpit. I said "oh yes that's where we will all be clipped on once we get out of the harbour", I got a reply - "oh, so if she sinks you'll all get dragged down" - Answer that!

Ian

 

[steve_cronin]

Probabilities...

You are much more likely to be thrown about possibly overboard than the boat sink quickly enough for you not to be able to open your Gibb Hook, innit?

Steve Cronin

 

[iangrant]

Re: Probabilities...

Of course you are right Steve, any risk assesment would favour being clipped on - it just got me thinking, run down by a container ship/fast ferry, just how long would one get to unclip, grab the bag, radio the mayday, deploy the liferaft, get the children in it etc......

Ian

 

[steve_cronin]

Re: Probabilities...

First time you've thought of it?

I AM surprised!!

Steve Cronin

 

[jimi]

You've obviously got the same sort of wife as me, a born pessimist! However this is always an argument bout what you should or should not do in fog. Personally I clip on, but I always carry a sharp knife in my pocket so that if the clip gets stuck, bent, out of reach etc I can cut the line.

Jim

 

[Twister_Ken]

\"No my Dear...

...it's so that if the boat sinks you can swim and hold it just below the surface until the salvage vessel arrives"

 

[iangrant]

I guess they do have a point - having seen over the years on various boats, things can and do go wrong, a wife's perception of just how wrong or dangerous is sometimes different to ours.
Like a nutter, I had to offer a demonstration - "just look at how easy it is to unfurl the mainsail, I don't have to leave the cockpit". I should have bloody well known better, would the sodding thing come out, you bet it wouldn't.

Ian

 

[sailbadthesinner]

Have clip at both ends??? that way you just unclip at your chest.

...It was like that when i found it!

 

[jimi]

Normally its not the adults we're really concerned about, they can look after themselves, its the kiddies!

Jim

 

[sailbadthesinner]

ah yes
haven't had the pleasure of them
swmbo getting very broody tho'
bang goes the plan for a nicholson then

...It was like that when i found it!