No, this is just a drill guys. As a sailing couple, two people in the boat, your worst nightmare is going to be a man overboard situation. You hear terrible stories of people who have gone overboard and someone was off watch and sleeping and they woke up to find they were alone and things like that. Terrible Terrible stories. We all obviously don't want to live through that and we take precautions. One of the precautions that's quite necessary is to actually practice the situation man overboard, so we're going to do that today. Marie's never done it which is bad on my part and personally i haven't done it for a couple of years either. I was sailing solo a lot before this
and obviously there's no point learning how to do a man overboard drill when you're alone so we're gonna do that today. We're gonna walk you guys through it and at the same time walk us through you know so obviously we probably make some mistakes and there's a lot of you out there that are more experienced than either of us so really appreciate in the comments if you would hey give some constructive criticism or advice don't just say you guys are idiots you're all gonna die please be constructive tell us of your the way you do it maybe if something has happened to you if something's a real man overboard situation and you've done it and you've learned what really really works i'm going to do what i've learned what i think is good and uh we'll show you guys enjoy the video last year i never really think about it i'm a bit innocent i think and this winter we were in france and i watched a movie about that super early would start it was really like not real but so i start to think about that if one day like i wake up in the night when he's doing the watch and he just fell overboard and i am alone on the boat or even if he was yelling in the night and i have to do something and yeah so i'm a bit scared to think about it even if it's an exercise like to imagine that it's quite a lot of pressure for me but i think it's important we are advertising okay so what we're going to do is throw a fender overboard that's going to be the person and then we're going to go through the steps and i'm going to say them now the steps that i would do in a man overboard situation so obviously the the main point is locate the person in the water with your eyes i mean you can use technological things push man overboard buttons whatever but if you've got you lock your eyes on the person the head in the water this is the best thing to do the way to help that is to throw other things in the water so you've got more things to visually group so it will throw other fenders in the water anything that floats basically that at hand will throw in the water we have a dan boy which is this long pole with a flag on it that'll go in the water first because it's out of the water it's got a flag that's a meter high so once that's done we will keep the eye on the person while moving to the next step which will be in this case getting the engine running the engine running first we're in relatively flat water calm water in this situation we would just fill the head sail and motor back to the person in the water obviously in different conditions he might not be able to do that but in this condition that's what we're doing but instead of furling the head sail first and then getting the engine going i would do it the other way so that we know the engine is going before we get rid of the sail if for some reason the engine wouldn't go we would need to sail back and then we'd need the sail so first engine then further sail and while doing all this furling all that the eyes have got to be on the person obviously you have to look what you're doing a little bit but as much as possible eyes on the purse in the water so it might mean looking over your shoulder but as much as possible because the amount of drift and the distance that you gain in these two three minutes is amazing and i think it's going to blow everyone away when you try it yourself it's pretty crazy and obviously a small head in the waves it's very difficult to see so you need to try and keep like that's where they are that's where they are that's where they are very very important so get the engine going get the sail down get the boat turned around and heading back towards them and just eyes on eyes on that's sort of it i have a man overboard button on my gps but it's downstairs i am not going to go and do that i don't know maybe you guys think that's a good idea i think the valuable seconds i'd be downstairs pushing that button and not having my eyes on the person uh yeah i think you know in a panic situation you have to take you know you just have to do what you know with the cards that you dealt with and i think that would be a one that i wouldn't go for so yeah we're going to do this now we're going to throw a fender in the water and we're going to run through it simply we're not going to do a i'm going to surprise marie we're going to just walk through it and this is how we do it we'll go back collect all the clutter that we're throwing in the water and then we'll probably do another one more surprise style okay so we are currently cruising along just under head sail i've got the boat in easy mode obviously no mainsail up uh we're out in the middle of nowhere the sea is very calm we're doing five knots this is sort of ideal training conditions okay so let's get going so you're going to throw yourself overboard all right you throw yourself overboard anytime you're ready okay watch watch so then the damn boy's going next all right damn boy it's in see how it works see how the damn boy works that's perfect all right try that yeah so yeah you're still watching the person let's see how much easier it is now we've got three people throw that one overboard right now we've got a line we've got a line of people in the water and it's much easier to see four things especially the orange flag okay now start the engine start the engine okay get it going forwards all right you can already turn the older pilot off i'll be firing the sail okay turn this around and keep your eyes on the people still there perfect turn around give more power you need to go fast okay full power okay we've got the people here well one person all right straighten up straight not straighten up you're going to go too far okay so now we can see everything in front of us so how did that go but that was okay but yeah it's quite uh scary to see at which speed you can raise someone super far and yeah like we had like the whole line of things we throw about really far apart say i can imagine that it's really good to have the maximum things in the water to you can watch it because just one person it's super hard to see it's getting super fast okay so we've got everything back in we got the man overboard and all the other bits and pieces and yeah like marie said you can really see the difference if there's a bunch of things floating in the water if there's just one pretty crazy to see this the distance you put that's standing still we're cruising on at five knots by the time you get the sailfield the engine on uh and this is a situation that we knew was going to happen you know so if someone's sleeping or have to come up from downstairs big situation and we won't even talk about night situations that's a whole different kettle of fish also by the time we got back the distance that spread apart that's quite amazing obviously different things in the water different size things some get blown by the wind the dam boy for example it's skinny little pole it doesn't really move so it's probably going to stay nearest the human the human's also going to be mostly underwater things like fenders or this water bottle we're through it's floating so the wind pushes it faster but regardless you know that it's still within that radius of of debris in the water as your human that you're searching for so that was just a walkthrough we're going to do another one now where we just do the same thing no stress involved but it'll just be one of us and we'll do one each so it's just one of us doing all the things this time we shared their duties you know but that would never be realistic because there's only two of us on the boat and if one goes overboard one person has to do all of that so we're gonna train that next i noticed that the flag on the standby which is the most important thing and it did still work we could still see it the best from all of the things but it the top was taped up and i guess that was to stop it flapping up on the on the pole but so in the water this flag didn't open properly it just came sort of half open like this so obviously you're going to see it much more if it's completely open and flapping in the wind so just alone this this training exercise to find that is a big thing so like i don't know who'd put this tape on there but it's been a while and i should have checked this before my bad yep just just open it all the way let it go don't worry how it feels keep looking that's it perfect good stuff are you still watching them awesome good stuff there you go get it going forwards yeah auto around pilot tough so far awesome a bit more speed keep watching them still see them yeah stand up on the side if you have to okay am i gonna die no i hope no you're gonna get me yeah i think i'm pretty confident you are swimming good i hope yeah i'm sorry good i think there might be a shark after me though oh no shark here yeah yeah okay there's the damn boy there's the other boy there's the water bottle and this is me straight up in front okay yeah slow right down now slow right now neutral really okay there you go now come alongside and grab me there i am it's okay now that was well done good stuff so how was that that's okay but it's i can imagine that in a real situation is really even more distance and more stress okay murray did really really well then she did all the processes obviously you know you can say well there was no panic there's no situation but training is about that it's about learning the processes learning the steps we don't have to make it a panic situation um obviously if in a real situation you would panic but hopefully maria will go back to these steps she's learned in a non-panic situation and after panicking for a second these steps will come back and she'll be like okay i have to do this i have to do this after this and that's what it's about we need to practice more but it's already she knows the steps and this is the good thing and i'm learning too so it's awesome so i'm going to have a turn next one oh she's going fast see how good okay i hope she's all right shark's not chasing us pretty sharky here i was dreaming so good too we're going to stop on a beach have a barbecue head over board you're taking care of your hats on me yeah yeah all right i can see i can see it's all good that dan boy is really visible okay but now there's some white caps so it's different than before the white caps actually make it harder because there's more troughs and peaks okay i can see it this is the debris starting i can see all these four or five things i threw in the water and marie would be the furthest away one but it's still all groups and from here i would hear her yelling and screaming at me probably if it was dark even i'm close enough now i know i'm within the radius of where she went in the water she would probably yell or whistle or something and i'd know you know we're close now you know that's the main thing obviously i got it turned around quicker than you would in a normal situation and all that but this is basic training basic training so this one here the danboy is by far the biggest help it is very very visible from a long way because it's out of the water and it's it's in between the up and down waves you still see the flag so this is by far the most important one to get in first closest to the victim um if they've you know if they're still conscious and swimming they can actually swim to it because they can see it and you can see it and it's the best thing by far is okay well i guess that went pretty well right yeah yeah that's just it more easy than what i was expecting like i know it's gonna be more stressful but the yeah that was okay no you reacted really good yeah as i said this is a training exercise it's about getting the steps and the processes and i think it went good learned a couple of things it's really good to visualize how far things go this is calm water obviously we've got 15 knots of wind few white caps but not you know there's a swell actually here but it's a long period there's not much chop so yeah it's good we're in a small boat we're low down so obviously your visibility is restricted compared to in a bigger boat you're sitting higher up so you've got a more longer distance into the sea but this is what it is it's a it's a very safe boat though i'm not really afraid of us getting tipped out the open transom it's very safe the cables over the back come up to my chest for for example a lot of people fall overboard when they're having a pee overboard but because they have to stand up on the sides and the safety rails only go up to their knees a wave hits them and they go overboard i feel very safe in this boat and also we can do everything from the cockpit reefing and everything so we don't really need to go forward and that's where the more dangerous with the pitching and bouncing but still it can always happen and it's good to train for it i think you did good um i think the training of driving the boat that's good for you um knowing how to feel really fast get the sail down obviously if we had the mainsail up in that situation i would just center it and still motor back depending on how strong the wind was this mainsail comes down very fast so that could be an option we'll practice next time is also with the mainsail so that she can get rid of the halyard and drop the mainsail and then motor back that way anyway i think it went pretty good hope you guys enjoyed it as i said give us some of your own tips i'm just watching where we're going we're still got a couple of miles till we get to the island give us some of your own tips experiences hopefully good experiences but uh we can all learn from bad experiences too obviously that's the best learning is sometimes you have to go through them and uh we'd like to hear from you and especially anything we can do to be safer and actually just enjoy our cruising right that's what it's about feeling safe feeling secure and out here loving life you know the world's a very it's actually a very safe place but we have the feeling it's a very unsafe place especially now with cove 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2021-09-21