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I absolutely love the topic and presentation. This topic is huge for me. Double tether is easy and ... why not?! The static tether at the mast is brilliant. Keep it coming, MOS!

Thanks for the forecast! A bit off-topic, but I wanted to ask: My OKX wallet holds some USDT, and I have the seed phrase. (alarm fetch churn bridge exercise tape speak race clerk couch crater letter). Could you explain how to move them to Binance?

Could of made some good points but you ruined it with ego like a generic u tuber. Have you found anymore videos to critique from the 90's

Love your videos! Just sailed in the Salty Dawg Rally to Antigua (note: I am from Michigan) on a boat that I hadn't been on before. I did a rig check myself and found multiple issues and some issues were installed at the factory! 😮

Awesome!

Good afternoon, I would like to use sections of your video to highlight your channel on my channel and send people your way, let me know if you would grant me permission to do so

Under the reported sea conditions everyone should have been double tethered and yes having someone next to boat but unable to re-board is a big problem, as a crew we experienced this many years ago in a rescue from other vessel in freezing conditions and it is the most helpless feeling you can imagine. Lastly all accidents should be studied as error chains it is always more than one thing that allows an accident. In this case it was lack of proper safety gear and yes I believe a PFD would have bought the victim more time at the least. Other crew should have enforced the use of safety gear no matter how cumbersome and inconvenient. There is your chain; bad weather, not wearing proper restraints and PFD, other crew not enforcing rules and lack of proper means of re-boarding. Just my opinion based on years offshore, not a finding as I have not reviewed report. I commend this channel these discussions can definitely save lives

This is excellent advice, it always concerns me how much garbage and bad information on TH-cam is mixed in with professional sound sources.

Perfect advice, thank you, we teach proper tether usage, you'd be surprised how many people think a tether is to keep you beside the boat if you fall off. Tether keep you on the boat, clip center! Short tether!

I remember buying my first new-condition rated tethers at a sail and boat equipment consignment store with inflatable Crewsaver offshore PFD’s. They are not USCG certified but they are qualified under the European body for such matters. They are impressively constructed. They were a few hundred dollars and I always use them with proper jacklines rigged. It amazes me that folks will forego a $300-500 expense per person on critical lifesaving equipment.

What the hey!? Where is the clickbait? What three websites are trying to kill me? Put up or shut up!

It's pronounced "An-Teee-Guh"

Are you able to make videos without stealing content? Asking for a friend

Your example of a bent padeye (on a smaller vessel) points up another problem. Algal growth on the deck surrounding that padeye is formed by long term water pooling. Stainless steel has poor performance underwater. Constant immersion in water will lead to crevice corrosion, accelerating the timeline of metal fatigue.

All these rules and safety concerns bother me. It's like parents insisting on knee, shin, elbow, and wrist, guards. Plus helmets and rash guard clothing. Let people do as people want. Even if they die off it's okay. Better than a nanny state.

Reading Bojangles comment my thoughts are that if fish were people sized, solo fishermen would work out how to get them in their boats. To that end, at the moment I am designing a self steerer for my 45’ boat. I’ll see if I can design in a feature which if triggered will attempt to round the boat up to windward. I’ll add into that design exercise an automatic MOB pole and life ring launcher that can be triggered remotely. The third problem is getting back aboard. First up I’m thinking grappling nets (nylon webbing) which can be released to drop down the side of a boat to give a person the chance to grip the boat and become attached to it. The second thought is to treat the person as a fish, who can be hauled close to the boat attached by their safety harness to a winch line helicopter recovery style. A combination of those 2 approaches with some more features will be successful.

The ultimate overboard survival story is th-cam.com/video/yX3xgj2B_vU/w-d-xo.htmlsi=bp89T-V50pkLsFhr . PFD’s for sure, and throwing the life ring over too. No one seems to talk about the MOB marker pole. Why? I once did a concept design for a waist worn PFD that inflated in 3 stages with the final stage being a complete enclosure as if a LiLo was wrapped fully around the person lifting them mostly out of the water making them more visible in the process. It’s do-able! Alternatively a life ring could have these features.

I don't watch those channels and I wasn't even aware that they even existed. Wholly hell! Im a firm believer in cold water Emerson suits and life a board my vessel. If you plan on sailing offshore a life raft is a must💯

Reflecting on the several Safety at Sea Seminars I have attended over the years, I believe in their insight for offshore sailing, even though they are often associated with ocean races and focused on the safety requirements of that way of going to sea. These seminars spend considerable time explaining the procedures for recovering a person overboard (POB). Short-handed POB Recovery is an illusion at best for the crew offshore; no matter how well equipped and drilled, a person's overboard recovery chances are small, even in the best of conditions. And once the wind gets up, they become slim indeed. I prefer to focus on crew POB (person on board). Pretend is a 500-foot cliff on the other side of those lifelines. Stay windward of loaded gear. Ban side deck jack lines and use only the centerline to avoid a dragging event. While being permanently attached to the boat is a massive increase in safety, that's only part of the story. What we attach to and how is equally, or maybe even more, important. But what really matters to the short-handed crew offshore is making as sure as humanly possible that the MOB situation never happens in the first place. We need more prevention, less cure.

The chance of rescue is slim, but still significantly better with a PFD. A tether is more important, but use your PFD as a harness and you'll have as good a chance as you can.

Helmets, yeah. Don't ask how I know.

I'm in Australia. My late grandfather lobbied hard for PFD's to become mandatory, here. While they are not required at law to be worn on all vessels, they are required to be onboard a vessel and worn on smaller vessels at all times. My understanding is that the US has similar laws. What appears to be different between the two cultures, however, is that sailing clubs/associations/race organisers require PFD's to be worn in competitions, here. In the case of off shore racing, harnesses, too, must be worn. This has been the case since the late 80's. It doesn't matter what the conditions are, you wear the gear. In fact, even when not competing, the culture is such that it is "un-cool" not to wear "the gear". You can argue until you're black and blue in the face that "under these circumstances... blah, blah, blah... PFD's and harnesses are worthless". That may or may not be true. The FACT of the matter, however, is that there have been all number of demonstrable instances in which lives have been saved by these devices. That isn't speculation, that's fact. I commend this channel for bringing this to the attention of those who might not be that well versed on Darwin's theory of evolution. I would also like to commend Peter Gibbons-Neff for his willingness to lead by example in a sport that quite frankly should have caught on, by now. And by the way, a life jacket saved a friend of mine from a life changing/ending event in a dinghy race, three and a half decades ago. He went overboard following an accidental gybe. It took several minutes for rescuers to find him ... face up, in the water... breathing, yet unconscious. Instead of death or at best, an ABI, he was treated for concussion and had half a dozen stitches put into his noggin. He was back for the next race the following week.

Fantastic presentation

I love the old manual CGI...

Great video Schaffer (I think that's you) ...

Amazing story well told and a load of great information.

I sailed with a guy who never worn any type of preserver. His attitude was that he did not want a slow death if he went overboard. I truly believe that once he was in the water, his attitude would change. RIP Tech Sergeant Schmidt.

PS It was reported that a GoPro mount on the top of Micheal Schumcher’s skiing helmet may have helped to concentrate the impact forces when his head hit a rock, potentially contributing to the head injuries he sustained, hence it’s good policy to avoid helmet mounted GoPro’s imho

Basic engineering. Good video.

Soft pad eyes (dyneema) are probably the answer here. They basically self align to the load so you really can't put them in wrong, and pound for pound are stronger than stainless.

mack

Materials aren’t made in good ole’ USA of days past or other European manufacturers of past, QCQA in china and other Asian countries( ((exempting Japan in this discussion-they taught USA a lot about QCQA))), They’re quality is better than each previous year, but still not that great! Metal are a big one!11

I think any boat without something like a stern mounted boarding ladder or similar assistance to get Yourself out of the water is Stupid .

Great video. Blocks often have really high ratings, but if the line going to them is off by enough of an angle, a much lower load will begin to split the sheave, taking it apart almost like someone used a pry bar. This is true for most hardware and hand tools. Often things don't get fixed because the crew isn't sure where the reinforced areas are on the deck for attaching hardware. A friend doesn't have one of the reefs because the cheap block (no bolts) failed and there's no way to replace it, unless the deck can be drilled.... But exactly where? This is information that should be permanently attached inside the boat so a crew at sea can fix this problem without guessing. Or clearly indicated on the deck. (Maybe the grip texture stops and it's slightly raised.) I crewed on a boat where the lines were all 12mm because the spec'd 10mm Spectra wasn't available (more likely it just cost too much). The clutches weren't Spinlock and only rated 8mm to 10mm. So they'd jam and we'd have to take them apart. Of course we lost a screw. Then I slightly cross loaded it and the clutch tore apart. For want of a nail the shoe was lost. For want of a shoe the horse was lost.... What I noticed after gaining some sailing experience is how useless almost all Walk Through Videos are. I want to see the rigging and the hardware. Instead, "There's a lot of storage with these drawers...." Good tip about the helmet. I never used my cycling helmet while kayaking because 'everybody says,' it was the wrong helmet. I've been a framing carpenter which has helped my sailing. I've also watched a bunch of 4x4 winching videos (yikes!), so I'm always thinking, if this breaks which way is that going to fly? And then I stay to the side.

good tips and points!

Don't stand in the bight, especially in the bisect of the loaded block.

Scrutiny of fittings and scantlings is a constant. Half the winches I see are installed incorrectly, putting the gears at higher loading. Spreader angles are the second most fitments I see wrong, and padeyes might be a close tie. ZARAFFA had a few less that perfect padeye alignments. A mainsheet fitting that failed on a TP52 almost decapitated a friend, and he ended up with a broken jaw. I replaced the eyeball padeyedls on 2 JV TP52's when we discovered the 14mm scanning were under spec when the cut threads reduced the scantling to 11.5mm as the inside diameter of the cut threads compromised the 14mm scantling. The new U-Bolts were 18mm stock giving 14mm scantlings at the cut threads.

You obviously aren’t new to the sailing world. There is no such place as “ Antigwa” please pronounce it normally. The tragically unfortunate crewman probably didn’t have time to feel a thing if that thing hit him in the head.

Besides a helmet, if you sail in American waters, is to wear a bullet proof vest. Remember, the NRA is out there.

Knew exactly which race you were talking about. Sailed through several of those situations you mentioned, having competed in this race every year since 2007. I was off watch and listened to this rescue on the radio. Was quite impressed with how smooth it all went. While the PLB is a huge improvement in safety, I still feel that the required Safety At Sea course is a more significant contribution to the safety of participants. If the PLB should fail, the lessons learned can significantly improve the chances of a successful recovery, plus there's so much more that can happen during a race than just going overboard.

How old is your boat? When did you last replace the rigging? Did you replace all the rigging? The pad eyes? The chain plates?

This was really good; thanks!

FFS! 😧

Wow. Excellent information, Thank you for the update. Fair winds to the lost.

I no longer want a sailboat. Trawlers seam a lot safer

Very clear review of the incident, now I'll be looking at pad eyes on every boat I board. Thank you.

Great video including information too rarely highlighted. Thanks

Okay, there's a question here - if PFDs are such a safety improvement then why are we not seeing fewer people dying in offshore racing? I've done the stats and there are more people dying (as a percentage of starters in Cat 1/2 races here in Australia, and I think the pattern is reflected elsewhere) over the last three decades than in the post-war period up till the mid '70s. Over that time we have had vast improvements in safety equipment and in PFD wearing rates. That seems highly unlikely if PFD wearing was such a step forward in safety, and studies seem to sidestep this issue and often seem to assume that PFD use would automatically have changed the result. The irony is that concentrating on PFD use may be often (although not in this instance) be a case where "feeling safe isn't being safe" and risk compensation may lead to people wearing PFDs to ignore other dangers. You mention that the skipper was a larger man and that the crew could not get him back aboard. The report notes that he rarely left the cockpit. Isn't this arguably a case where the risk habituation is that many people have become used to not being fit, are not physically adept at moving around a deck or being "bounced" safely, and we don't have the means of handling such people due to their size? Obviously one has to be tactful about such issues but not at the expense of ignoring them. The last time I ran through the US Sailing list of MOB reports and other data I was struck by the very low number of foredeck crew who had gone over the side - that may demonstrate that practise in moving around the deck and physical aptitude and fitness are vastly under-rated in terms of the way they improve safety and yet these are factors that seem to be ignored in favour of concentrating on hardware. With respect to those who wrote the US Sailing report, it is very hard to believe the claim "Had Colin been wearing a PFD, harness, and tether, it is highly unlikely that he would have been washed overboard" since the PFD would not have prevented him from being washed overboard. The US Sailing report makes it clear that the skipper was conscious and alert when he got back into the Lifesling and showing no issues. So where is the evidence that he would have been in a better situation with a PFD? Why the assumption that, if hindered in swimming by an inflated PFD, he would have been able to get back to and into the Lifesling with no issues? Arguably in this and many other cases, the problem was not PFD wearing (as they do not save people are unconscious or unable to prevent splash drowning and can actually hinder swimming) but getting the person back aboard, and that's something that needs more work. Regarding the fact that radios on other boats were turned down - last time I did the Hobart we had the radio turned up and therefore we ended up with the entire crew suffering even worse sleep than usual in a tough race, because we were repeatedly woken by the radio.

This is it. Great video.

I believe this could be a SERIES or a PLAYLIST. There's plenty of subjects to cover here.