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Flying Pig Prevention Measures
No potshots from me, but a couple of comments that I hope are
constructive. We're taking the Captain's classes beginning in a couple of weeks. That won't make us better sailors, necessarily, but it will add to our skillsets. The USCG tests for licenses assume that you have proven to be experienced and competent in the service that you are testing for and to a large extent just attempt to make sure there are no gaping holes in your knowledge. Courses for the licenses tend to assume much the same and cover a lot of ground very quickly. I wonder if it might not be more appropriate to look at classes intended for novices rather than professionals. she tells folks, now, that she wasn't in condition to stand watch, but didn't fetch me to either take over or assist. We'll not make that mistake again. This is critical. I've had two acquaintances die because their less competent partners failed to wake them in difficult conditions. In one case the boat was run down by a tow and in the other dragged onto a lee shore. The husbands and their boats were lost in a large part because their wives wanted to let them rest. I continually remind my crew that she must wake me whenever she has any questions or doubts and I try very hard to praise her each time she calls me even though most calls are false alarms. Sleep management and watch responsibility may be the hardest part of sailing short handed. -- Tom. |
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