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What if #7
The Boat: Cape Dory 36
Conditions: Fair, boat speed 4.5 knots on a reach What a disaster! You were sailing alone, 400 miles offshore. No land or vessels in sight. Your Autohelm 4000 autopilot engaged you sat down for a meal when you heard a strange noise. Back on deck you see that part of the backstay adjuster is coming loose. You get to work and place your foot on the aft railing. The boat lurches from a gust and wave. It's a one in a million shot, but it's happened. You've fallen off the boat!!!! You spin fast in the water and grab the 15 foot long line you were trailing. Slowly, chocking on water rushing over you, you manage to pull your self to the stern. It's exhausting, but you make it to the stern. Only you can't pull the ladder down!!! You can't get aboard. The rush of cold water is wearing you down fast. What can you do???? RB |
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The Boat: Cape Dory 36
Too easy Bubbles. Oz1...of the 3 twins. What else did you expect? |
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Too easy Bubbles.
Oz1...of the 3 twins. What else did you expect? STILL no answers. And this really happened to someone... RB |
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Quickly tie yourself to the stern any way you can. That way they'll
know what happened to you and give you a decent burial... assuming the sharks don't get you. -- "j" ganz @@ www.sailnow.com "Bobsprit" wrote in message ... The Boat: Cape Dory 36 Conditions: Fair, boat speed 4.5 knots on a reach What a disaster! You were sailing alone, 400 miles offshore. No land or vessels in sight. Your Autohelm 4000 autopilot engaged you sat down for a meal when you heard a strange noise. Back on deck you see that part of the backstay adjuster is coming loose. You get to work and place your foot on the aft railing. The boat lurches from a gust and wave. It's a one in a million shot, but it's happened. You've fallen off the boat!!!! You spin fast in the water and grab the 15 foot long line you were trailing. Slowly, chocking on water rushing over you, you manage to pull your self to the stern. It's exhausting, but you make it to the stern. Only you can't pull the ladder down!!! You can't get aboard. The rush of cold water is wearing you down fast. What can you do???? RB |
Proposition: The Fool's Act
Bobsprit wrote: The Boat: Cape Dory 36 Conditions: Fair, boat speed 4.5 knots on a reach What a disaster! You were sailing alone, 400 miles offshore. No land or vessels in sight. Your Autohelm 4000 autopilot engaged you sat down for a meal when you heard a strange noise. Back on deck you see that part of the backstay adjuster is coming loose. You get to work and place your foot on the aft railing. The boat lurches from a gust and wave. It's a one in a million shot, but it's happened. You've fallen off the boat!!!! You spin fast in the water and grab the 15 foot long line you were trailing. Slowly, chocking on water rushing over you, you manage to pull your self to the stern. It's exhausting, but you make it to the stern. Only you can't pull the ladder down!!! You can't get aboard. The rush of cold water is wearing you down fast. What can you do???? Stick your face underwater and take a REALLY deep breath, thus ridding the gene pool of an idiot who not only was singlehanding 400mi offshore without any sort of tether/lifeline, but was actually stupid enough to go working in an exposed position without taking additional precautions. I propose that there be a Fool's Act put up, or perhaps an international treaty (Foolish Activities Rescue Refusal Treaty), where anyone in their majority, regardless of their soundness of mind or not, be permitted to indulge in whatever stupidity they wish to, provided it neither physically damages another person, and provided that they waive all rights to rescue. That way, those who want to cross the SImpson Desert without water in the height of summer are free to, those who wish to suicide offshore may do so, and no-one (who doesn't actually desire to) need put themselves at risk to retrieve the fools. -- Flying Tadpole ------------------------- Break Away, Sail Away and putz away now at http://music.download.com/internetopera |
What if #7
Bobsprit wrote: The Boat: Cape Dory 36 Conditions: Fair, boat speed 4.5 knots on a reach What a disaster! You were sailing alone, 400 miles offshore. No land or vessels in sight. Your Autohelm 4000 autopilot engaged you sat down for a meal when you heard a strange noise. Back on deck you see that part of the backstay adjuster is coming loose. You get to work and place your foot on the aft railing. The boat lurches from a gust and wave. It's a one in a million shot, but it's happened. You've fallen off the boat!!!! You spin fast in the water and grab the 15 foot long line you were trailing. Slowly, chocking on water rushing over you, you manage to pull your self to the stern. It's exhausting, but you make it to the stern. Only you can't pull the ladder down!!! You can't get aboard. The rush of cold water is wearing you down fast. What can you do???? Save yourself using your BRAIN. Cheers |
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I'd tie a rolling hitch with the line to itself and
inch my back on board, or toss the end of the line over a lifeline and use that as a 2:1 purchase. I wouldn't let anything stand between me and that sandwich! Bobsprit wrote The Boat: Cape Dory 36 Conditions: Fair, boat speed 4.5 knots on a reach What a disaster! You were sailing alone, 400 miles offshore. No land or vessels in sight. Your Autohelm 4000 autopilot engaged you sat down for a meal when you heard a strange noise. Back on deck you see that part of the backstay adjuster is coming loose. You get to work and place your foot on the aft railing. The boat lurches from a gust and wave. It's a one in a million shot, but it's happened. You've fallen off the boat!!!! You spin fast in the water and grab the 15 foot long line you were trailing. Slowly, chocking on water rushing over you, you manage to pull your self to the stern. It's exhausting, but you make it to the stern. Only you can't pull the ladder down!!! You can't get aboard. The rush of cold water is wearing you down fast. What can you do???? |
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They say that the torment of drowning is not the drowning itself, but the
fighting to survive....just hang on and let yourself go numb...then let go and breathe deeply....You are planning to do this on your first offshore sail? -- katysails s/v Chanteuse Kirie Elite 32 http://katysails.tripod.com "Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea." - Robert A. Heinlein --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.712 / Virus Database: 468 - Release Date: 6/27/2004 |
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You spin fast in the water and grab the 15 foot long line you were
trailing. Doesn't it stand to reason you would have fouled your prop well before any of this anyway? -- katysails s/v Chanteuse Kirie Elite 32 http://katysails.tripod.com "Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea." - Robert A. Heinlein --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.712 / Virus Database: 468 - Release Date: 6/27/2004 |
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