Tag Archive 'safety'

Jan 29 2011

Painful lessons for Ventura county boaters

ShareClose Bookmark and Share This Page Save to Browser Favorites / BookmarksAskbackflipblinklistBlogBookmarkBloglinesBlogMarksBlogsvineBuddyMarksBUMPzee!CiteULikeco.mmentsConnoteadel.icio.usDiggdiigoDotNetKicksDropJackdzoneFacebookFarkFavesFeed Me LinksFriendsitefolkd.comFurlGoogleHuggJamespotJeqqKaboodlekirtsylinkaGoGoLinkedInLinksMarkerMa.gnoliaMister WongMixxMySpaceMyWebNetvouzNewsvineoneviewOnlyWirePlugIMPropellerRedditRojoSegnaloShoutwireSimpySlashdotSphereSphinnSpurlSquidooStumbleUponTechnoratiThisNextTwitterWebrideWindows LiveWorlds MoviesYahoo!Email This to a FriendCopy HTML:  If you like this then please subscribe to the RSS Feed.Powered by Bookmarkify™ More »Two boats went aground two weekends ago. A Bayliner slid onto the beach in mid-afternoon just northwest of the Channel Islands Harbor [...]

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Dec 31 2010

ASA’s New Year’s Resolution

How many deaths did it take? How many dead sailors have to line up before the leading authority on sail-training decides that everyone should wear a life jacket, at least in sailing schools? The answer: none. Sort of. Seems the death of an American Sailing Instructor and his student prompted the insurer that covers us [...]

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Oct 12 2010

A picture that needs several thousand of words of explanation

Published by under safety at sea

Rob Walton – SCI Master Rater – passed along this pic that he found on Sailing Anarchy. I couldn’t find it on their site, nor could I find an explanation of how we got to first unanimous WTF vote, but that’s what the crew is looking like and exactly the expression on the face of [...]

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Oct 05 2010

Learning a 200-year-old lesson

Two Years Before the Mast sat unread in the rail in the forepeak of Wiley for a dozen years. I don’t know where that book went. It may have turned to dust over the last decade of sailing, but I got interested in the book again a couple of weeks ago when I found it [...]

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Jul 07 2010

Upside down in wild cold seas in Northern California

Published by under rescue,safety at sea,weather

Just gotta wonder what they were thinking. Everyone got rescued, but there was probably no good reason why they should have found themselves upside down under their catamaran in the first place. Read the report in Latitude 38. Then comment, critique, write a diatribe or just speculate. BTW – if you don’t subscribe to the [...]

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