"Don White" wrote in message
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"Frogwatch" wrote in message
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On Oct 19, 2:03 am, "nom=de=plume" wrote:
"Mike" wrote in message

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On Oct 18, 8:53?pm, "nom=de=plume" wrote:



"Frogwatch" wrote in message

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At last, temps in the 60s, wind, real wind out of the north. ?So,
tommorow, I sail my 28' sloop 36 miles west to get her bottom
painted
in prep for sailing southward. ?Everybody else is in school or
working
so I am taking the day off and going alone. ?I got an EPIRB, Hand
held
VHF, VHF, phone, etc.
See y'all tomorrow night.

Stay safe... wear your lifejacket!

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Nom=de=Plume
Single handing is always a risk, don't forget your tether even if it
doesn't look bouncy starting out...
I am envious, I gotta work tomorrow, while your're having fun. Bah
Humbug!
Mike... !

If you have a tether, then I guess you don't need a lifejacket.

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Did not go. Got to the coast and tried to start the engine, nothing,
even with compression relieved, she would barely turn over. Brought
both batteries back to town, had em checked, both refused to charge.
Replaced em, may try again tommorow if the tides are right.
BTW, I am a safety fanatic. If someone is on my boat, they are wearing
a life jacket unless they are below. I always wear a tether when
alone or at night. Also have an EPIRB w GPS on my auto-inflate jacket
and a strobe.


REPLY: what do you do if you have to take off the jacket? does the
harness stay with you... sounds like it.?

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Nom=de=Plume
Should wear a PDF as well as the harness. If a person is incapacitated
when they hit the water, or is otherwise incapable of getting themselves
back on board, all the harness and tether is going to do is keep the
corpse with the boat. The good thing about this would be it would save CG
funds since they wouldn't have to mount a wider search.
It would be hard to pull against the +/- 6kts (approximate hull speed)
for anyone. I guess optimum would be for the harness to be long enough so
that the victim ends up in the right position to reach a ladder that can
be deployed from the water.

That PFD might save your ribs from taking a beating if you bounce against
the hull.

I can see the PFD doing that... but shouldn't the tether be short enough so
that you can't go in the water? What would be the point if that happened and
you were not conscious? You could have some in place around the boat, like
on the mast somewhere, so you wouldn't have to take yours off to reach
something.

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