"Don W" wrote in message
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Capt. JG wrote:

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"Don W" wrote in message
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You might experiment with this during the summer by jumping overboard
while the boat is going 7kts and seeing how hard it is to grab the dink
as it goes by.

I can tell you now, Don, that grabbing a dink doing 5 kts was impossible.
Trying to drag my clothed body thru the water was far too much for my
grip to last more than a few seconds. Quite apart from the hell of being
rolled over by taking a bad grip in the first place . . .

JimB


Wasn't there some guy in his 70s who managed to haul himself out of the
water when he got knocked off his boat... I seem to recall the story
that he grabbed the boat as it went by and climbed back on. Or, is this a
Usenet myth? g

I'd sure give it a try if I was the only one on deck when I went OB, but I
sure wouldn't bet on the outcome.

Then there was the tragedy a few years back between Fiji and New Zealand,
where the guy fell overboard at night while his wife was asleep, and his
tether was just long enough to let him drag and drown. The wife found him
when she woke up in the morning.

Don W.



We had one off the coast here... the guy fell off the bow... got hit by a
mini-rogue wave and lost his footing. He was tethered but bonked his head.
His wife panicked and couldn't figure a way to haul him in. By the time she
got it together, he was dead from blunt trama. A good point of order on not
having too long a tether and not having jacklines that run the entire length
of the vessel.

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