In article t,
Bob Crantz wrote:
Man Overboard

The Crew Overboard Symposium (COB) was sponsored and organized by several
safety-minded groups and spearheaded by marine supplier West Marine, along
with Modern Sailing Academy, a sailing school based in Sausalito,
California. These two had collaborated in the 1990s on a similar man
overboard program, when they discovered several safe and innovative ways for
sailboats to retrieve overboard crewmembers that are now accepted worldwide.
Funding for this event came from the Bonnell Cove Foundation, a nonprofit
arm of the Cruising Club of America dedicated to improving boating safety,
with additional support from BoatU.S., North Sails and the Sailing
Foundation of Seattle.

Yup. It was a great event. I used to rent boats from Modern, which is
a great place to do that, btw.

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