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Mayday off coast of Mexico-rescued from catamaran
hi folks,
why do people abandon ship ? it's a naive question i'm sure, i have not ever been in this kind of a situation where things are so bad you "have to abandon ship", and i only know from what i've been reading in books and things how scary it must be, etc. and for a cat if it flips over it's flipped and that's the end of it, so i can kind of understand leaving, i guess. but for a "normal" sailboat, a monohull, isn't it always the best idea to stay ON/in the boat ? why do you EVER "have to abandon ship", it's the "have to" part i'm not understanding ? i mean you go through regular storm management ... heave to, run before the storm, maybe later put out a sea anchor or something, all the usual things ... but even if that all goes to hell, shouldn't you STILL stay in the boat ? i mean the hull is sort of like a ping pong ball, even if it flips over, loses it's mast, has all it's deck hardware ripped off, loses it's rudder, everything ... as long as it's not full of water you should stay in it, right ? it's still going to float. it might be rolling over every few minutes, but it's still floating. isn't the idea to stay IN something that floats ? even if a big breaker comes aboard and cracks the hull, you can still leave, it's not going to go down like a rock, you'd have a little time to get out, right ? how often does the sea actually crack the hull anyway ? like this article says, most of the time they find the boat drifting after the storm, wouldn't you want to be drifting there inside of it ? why leave it in the first place ? it just seems like you have more going for you IN the boat than OUT of the boat. out of the boat, in the ocean, it seems like you'd have a whole lot less going for you. like i said, i'm sure it's naive, but it just seems like a lot of people leave a perfectly good floating boat for even greater danger to me, i must be missing something ? people sometimes joke that skydivers are crazy for jumping out of a perfectly good airplane, isn't it just as crazy to leave a perfectly good floating hull ? lol and even in this cat, if it flipped completely over and stayed flipped over, it's still floating, right ? it just seems like the only reason you "have to" abandon ship is the thing is filling up with water and is headed for the bottom of the ocean. |
Mayday off coast of Mexico-rescued from catamaran
"purple_stars" wrote in message oups.com... hi folks, why do people abandon ship ? Injury, fatigue, hunger, thirst, hypothermia, JimB |
Mayday off coast of Mexico-rescued from catamaran
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Mayday off coast of Mexico-rescued from catamaran
DSK wrote:
wrote: Is it difficult to find a 32' boat about 50 miles offshore ? 50 miles? Shucks, ten miles out is as good as infinity if you're lost. You have no idea how big the ocean is. DSK Thank God the Search & Rescue people have helicopters and airplanes. Can you imagine being lost/shipwrecked in the 1800s? |
Mayday off coast of Mexico-rescued from catamaran
If you're off the west coast of the US, head east. You'll hit land
eventually. :-) In fog, you could be lost within a couple of miles. Happens all the time out here. In article , DSK wrote: wrote: Is it difficult to find a 32' boat about 50 miles offshore ? 50 miles? Shucks, ten miles out is as good as infinity if you're lost. You have no idea how big the ocean is. DSK -- Capt. JG @@ www.sailnow.com |
Mayday off coast of Mexico-rescued from catamaran
In article .com,
purple_stars wrote: hi folks, why do people abandon ship ? it's a naive question i'm sure, i have not ever been in this kind of a Besides filling up with water and being about the sink (always step up to the liferaft philosophy), there's the issue of being rolled over and over and over. You'd be inside a washing machine with lots of heavy and possibly sharp objects flying around. In the '79 Fastnet race, that reason was used by many who chose to get off the boat. I can't think of another reason. But, I'm open to suggestions. The bigger the boat, the better off you'll be, so you should stay with the boat if at all possible. -- Capt. JG @@ www.sailnow.com |
Mayday off coast of Mexico-rescued from catamaran
In article ,
News f2s wrote: "purple_stars" wrote in message roups.com... hi folks, why do people abandon ship ? Injury, fatigue, hunger, thirst, hypothermia, JimB Jim, I'm sure those are reasons, but they're not particularly good reasons. You're not going to be doing better in a smaller and much more uncomfortable liferaft. Perhaps psychosis or delusion would be a better excuse. :-) -- Capt. JG @@ www.sailnow.com |
Mayday off coast of Mexico-rescued from catamaran
On 25 Jan 2006 23:06:04 -0800, "purple_stars"
wrote: it just seems like the only reason you "have to" abandon ship is the thing is filling up with water and is headed for the bottom of the ocean. Once you trip off the EPIRB and the rescue helicopter shows up things may be out of your hands. As I understand it, they can "order" you off the boat at that point. |
Mayday off coast of Mexico-rescued from catamaran
On Thu, 26 Jan 2006 10:11:56 -0000, "News f2s"
wrote: why do people abandon ship ? Injury, fatigue, hunger, thirst, hypothermia, Fear. |
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