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Overboard !

Overboard !. Using the Lifesling to save your mate. History. Many documented deaths in Crew Over Board (COB) situations. Common factors The Sailing Foundation of Seattle designs a dedicated COB rescue system – the Lifesling. Problem Solution. Lifesling design.

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Overboard !

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  1. Overboard! Using the Lifesling to save your mate.

  2. History • Many documented deaths in Crew Over Board (COB) situations. • Common factors • The Sailing Foundation of Seattle designs a dedicated COB rescue system – the Lifesling

  3. Problem Solution

  4. Lifesling design • Flexible horseshoe float with 20 lbs. buoyancy. • 125’-150’ floating line • Draws closed around COB for hoisting • Soft case, hard case and inflatable versions

  5. CrewOverBoard!

  6. Crew Overboard! • The overriding priority: keep the COB in sight. • Throw a cushion or another buoyant object. • Alert crew, if any; designate COB “watcher”. • Push GPS “MOB” button • STOP THE BOAT!

  7. Quickstop -- 1

  8. Stop the Boat: Quickstop Maneuver • Head to windward, luffing the sails and stopping the boat. • Deploy Lifesling (making sure it is attached to the boat). • Turn through the eye of the wind, without tacking the jib sheets. • If the mainsheet is run out, pull it in to a close-hauled position • Sail past COB, gybing as necessary.

  9. Quickstop -- 2

  10. Stop the Boat: Quickstop Maneuver • Circle the COB , without touching the sheets • Watch the Lifesling line –don’t run over it! • Watch the COB – don’t run over him! • Circle until the COB has the Lifesling.

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  12. Quickstop – after making contact with the COB • STOP THE BOAT by heading into the wind (towing the COB is very dangerous). • As soon as the COB has the Lifesling over his head, drop the sails. • Jib first – keeps boat head to wind. If hanked-on, tie it down to keep it from jumping up the forestay. • Then drop the main. • Keep lines out of the water

  13. Securing the COB • Pull the COB in with the Lifesling line. • Pull to the windward side—this is rougher on the COB but the boom and mainsail will be out of the way. • Pull the COB as close as possible to a midship or cockpit cleat, and cleat off the line. • The most critical part of the rescue is over!

  14. Recovering the COB • Get out the hoisting tackle. • Attach the lower end temporarily to a lifeline, or directly onto the loop at the end of the Lifesling line. • Identify a free halyard—most commonly the main halyard—and attach the fall end of the tackle. • Run the fall through a genoa sheet lead block to a sheet winch. • Hoist the halyard at least 10’ off the deck and cleat it off. • Attach the lower end to the Lifesling line loop (if not already attached). • Undo the cleated Lifesling line and hoist the COB aboard.

  15. Recovering the COB: Caveats • You have the time to work safely, as the immediate danger of drowning or hypothermia is past. • Make sure the tackle’s fall comes from the upper block. • Make sure the hoist is led outside the lifelines. • Hoist the upper block at least 10’ off the deck so the COB will clear the lifelines.

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  31. coffee break (10 minutes) After the break, please follow Bryan to the hanger for the hoisting demonstration. Can you hoist your partner with a 3:1 purchase tackle? 4:1?

  32. questions? • Is your Lifesling securely tied and seized to the boat? • Do you have a readily accessable tackle with enough line to go from near the water to 10’ off the deck, and lead fairly to a winch? • What problems do you foresee using these techniques on your boat?

  33. Preparing in advance • Read literature, watch the video, take a class • Get the gear on the boat, correctly installed • Dock exercise: with a MOB in the water or in the bottom of a dinghy alongside, hoist and drop the sails, rig the tackle, and hoist the MOB aboard. • At sea: practice MOB routine with a dummy (a fender tied to a bucket). Practice with a live MOB only under safely controlled conditions.

  34. Preparing in advance • Read literature, watch the video, take a class • Get the gear on the boat, correctly installed • Dock exercise: with a MOB in the water or in the bottom of a dinghy alongside, hoist and drop the sails, rig the tackle, and hoist the MOB aboard. • At sea: practice MOB routine with a dummy (a fender tied to a bucket). Practice with a live MOB only under safely controlled conditions.

  35. Preparation checklist: • Lifesling and retrieval line in sound condition. • Line tied and seized to a hard point, with UV protection. • At Lifesling end, line tied in a loop long enough to go from the water to the rail, securely knotted and seized. • Lifesling packed correctly. • Hoisting tackle handy, long enough to extend from the water to 10’ off the deck, with the fall leading fair to a winch. • Every crewmember must practice annually.

  36. Tradewinds Sailing Quickstop • Many of the case studies are from reaching on inland waters such as Puget S0und, San Francisco Bay, etc. • But tradewind cruisers are likely to be in different conditions: • Sailing a broad reach or dead downwind • 20-30 kn. of wind, 5-15’ seas • Gybe preventer on the boom • Genoa on the spinnaker pole, possibly wing-and-wing, or a spinnaker flying

  37. Downwind Problems big seas Steering is locked by AP or a windvane gybe preventer rigged to boom genoa on a pole

  38. Downwind Quickstop Problem: Solution: • big seas • steering is locked by AP or windvane • gybe preventer rigged to boom • genoa on a pole • Quickstop! • unlock steering • release preventer after starting turn to windward • release genoa sheet as soon as sail starts to backwind

  39. Downwind Quickstop sequence: • Push MOB button, throw floating objects • Disengage windvane or AP steering. • Start turn to windward. • Cast off genoa sheet as it starts to backwind. • Cast off gybe preventer as main starts to backwind.

  40. Downwind Quickstop, cont’d • Cast off gybe preventer as main starts to backwind. • Deploy Lifesling.

  41. Downwind Quickstop, cont’d The boat will now be in irons, downwind and off to one side of the COB. With most of the jib rolled in, continue the turn and sail close-hauled toward the COB. Steer to pass upwind of the COB, then fall off and gybe. Steer tight circles until the COB has the float.

  42. Downwind Quickstop • Questions? • What would be different on your boat?

  43. The Easiest MOB Recovery: Staying attached to the boat!

  44. Jacklines • Run from bow to 6’ from stern. • Should keep COB from going more than waist deep. • Should have moderate stretch to minimize peak loads. • Strong enough to handle 4000lb. tether load

  45. Jackline layout

  46. jacklines on Sequoia

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