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What is the last thing you bought for yourself?

Strobes for life-vest, comes on automatically if you hit the water and can be seen up to almost 6KMs. Takes two AA batts. will strobe for 56 hrs.

406 mhz EPIRB from ACR.

New VHF radio with AIS/DCS over NMEA200.
 
Vented summer hat, size large for my big head. Going to replace the brown feathers with a peacock feather eye. Cruelty free. I love hats.
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Jizdrop1 said:
Won't you die from the cold after 56 hours Migsy?
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One of the biggest risks of falling overboard into water, is the fact that the crew wont be able to spot you. Scenario...

It is dusk and you are screaming trying to make the dock before staff head home at 10pm. You and the crew are cold, tired and hungry.

It is blowing 30 knots and there is a force 4 sea state condition, with white caps being whipped up across the seascape.

You are flying full cloth, trying to make good time, when the unthinkable happens. Aunt Betty has fallen over and into the north sea.

A few things now have to happen manually and a few things happen automatically.

Manually... as I am marking the GPS MOB Position on the plotter (Man Over Board) someone else has thrown the MOB pole (a long red pole that stands up out of the water with a flag on top) and as we pinch into the wind (to slow the boat) we need to start thinking about dropping the main sail and furling (rolling in) the jib). The engine will also need to be started after opening the FUEL PETCOCKS.

We are 2 KMS away from you now as we start to turn back to a course on your heading.

Of course your STROBE has fired off immediately upon touching the water, the MOB pole has went out early enough that you were able to swim to it before your arms got to cold.

So I have a MOB pole, a STROBE and a GPS fix on the rough position you fell over at. I order that the topping lift be readied and the sling made handy, as well as one of the other crew members needs to be ready to go into the water in case Aunt Betty can not get the sling over her head and under her arms.

Once she is slung in, we lift that old bag of dog dung back on deck and run a towel over her tussled head.

The strobe was one of the best location tools we can have with us in a MOB scenario.

Your right Jizz... in super cold water (35c) you wou8ld only last 15 mins. This is why it is so important to locate a MOB fast.

For super serious offshore we have a location system that a transponder is hooked to coat/vest and a receiver is ship side and you can be tracked that way.
 
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