when singlehanding may look as a desparate case. So be careful to be tied.
When Finn training alone, I tied myself with the end of mainsheet around
waist. But even getting back into a Finn needs some practice.
I heard of an exception : a lone man having fallen overboard could catch his
fishing line ; happily, as his hand glided along the line it was caught by
one fishing hook and he succeeded joining back his sailing boat and climbing
back into . A superman who happened to be a professional sailor.
Before helicopters era, how many pilots having escaped from their crashing
plane got killed by rescuing ship?
Let us forget people who go swimming on a sunny and windless day with nobody
left onboard !
Getting back a heavily soaked MOB is not that easy. If you are not at least
two strong people, never forget to use an outhaul to be caught from jackline
or end of boom or ...; never forget that you have got useful halyards and
winches.
Another important point is that a man who has been fighting for life stops
fighting when he feels nearly saved.
On the contrary of what has been said here, most of MOB fall over in medium
weather. Many of them are found back with opened zips. Shy pissing overboard
is quite dangerous ! (forgetting pissing contests !).
There is such an abundant litterature above MOB problem ! Beware of what is
being said in it until you have applied it yourself. Hence the necessity of
training : once a week for instance as in any Navy. Leeward, windward, by stern
? That is only by practice that easiest and less dangerous way will be
found, which may be quite different according to own personality. Our nets also
provide a big advantage above monos.
By the way, always get in one of your pockets a stick of "Cyalume" or-and a
flashing light.
Please pardon that chatting from an "ancien" who never, up to now, has got
any sailor overboard. Let me touch wood : MOB and fire are my two main
concerns.
Gillbert Lamboley
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