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As part of the Royal Yacht Association “man overboard” training the instructor would throw a polystyrene head in the water and yell “man overboard”. We were tau
by jgrahamc 4y ago
As part of the Royal Yacht Association “man overboard” training the instructor would throw a polystyrene head in the water and yell “man overboard”. We were taught that everyone not at the controls would point at the head until it was recovered. Helped enormously to have people extend their arms and keep their eyes on it. A head in open water is tiny. I thoroughly recommend RYA training.
- mcv 4y agoAt the sea scouts, we used a fender with a weight on one end. It would be unexpectedly be thrown overboard, and everybody was supposed to react immediately: yell "man overboard", have someone point, shout "swim!" at the man overboard (because sometimes they forget), and sail a certain pattern in order to arrive at the man overboard at a controlled course. We practices that dozens if not hundreds of times.
- Tor3 4y agoWe did exactly that - well, one of the crew's job was to fix eyes on the head (not much point extending the arm, we turned the sailboat as quickly as we could), but due to being just a typical sail yacht's one meter above sea level it took only a few seconds of movement of the boat for the head to be invisible among the choppy waters.