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On 22 Oct 2005 06:54:28 GMT, (Lauri Tarkkonen)
wrote:

There was a case some ten years ago here in Baltic, where the captain
fell into the sea, and even though his vife and daughter and son in law
got a rope to him and under his arms, they could not hoist him to the
boat soon enough, to prevent him from dying in hypothermia. It was mid
Jyly and the weather was reasonabl gentle.

How did they screw it up if they had him on a rope? I've swum in the
Baltic in mid July for fun. Hypothermia would take a while.

oops, I'm presuming sailboat, clip a halyard to the line and grind
even an unconscious MOB aboard. I am much more frightened about the
possibility of being an unnoticed MOB.

Ryk