Return or go on? Decisions, decisions......

[Woodentop]

My simple solution;

Use radio to contact Coastguard (PAN PAN) and talk to the Duty Doctor.
If he advises evacuation the Coastguard will work out fastest way.

Depending on wind strength and direction it could even be an Irish helicopter sent to pick up the casualty and race downwind to a hospital in Cornwall.

If you are going to sail out of VHF range then an MF/HF radio might be a useful buy.

 

[bilbobaggins]

Yes!

Yes, yes, yes.....! Jim's got it!

.....how to work out whether it is quicker to go on, or to go back, to a) a suitable haven b) a point where VHF advice can be gained.

Called the 'Critical Point' in the tomes - that point along a route from which it is 'equal time' to go on or to go back. And it was hoped we'd explore the 'considerations' that make the Critical Point not halfway for most saily and motory boats.

Is this worth taking on, or letting sink?



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[Sans Bateau]

Sorry, I'm must be missing something, isnt that what I said? /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif

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Start a new passage plan? Analyse last weather report, study tide direction/times and and plan fastest landfall?


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[ChrisE]

You forgot to add get to the nearst point where you could VHF successfully.

Anyroads up, that part of the sea is so full of trawlers that you wouldn't need VHF and friendly wave would do the job....

 

[bilbobaggins]

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isnt that what I said?

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Yes. Apologies for not according appropriate recognition earlier.

Most seem to have a strong inclination to phone someone else up, and have them sort it out. Coastguards various, helicopter services, other shipping, trawlers..... I s'pose that's their prerogative.

It's not how I was brought up. Bored now with this. I'm off to be grumpy somewhere else......

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[Twister_Ken]

>Most seem to have a strong inclination to phone someone else up<

I'm ever mindful of a story told me by a denizen of these parts, about a crewman who took a fall, didn't look well and so the call was made, and after a while a nice Spanish helo arrived to take the guy away. They heard subsequently that the fall had ruptured his spleen and if he'd been an hour or two later getting to the hospital it would have been a case of DOA.