RYA safety boat presentation

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RYA safety boat presentation

• Suggested methods for dealing with small craft in
  a sheltered environment

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Guiding principles

• Count heads!
• Ask if help is required, and if so, what.
• Recover and return students to shore if the
  situation is becoming serious.
• Leave the craft tagged to let other crews know
  it has been dealt with.
• Dont become another casualty yourself .

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Guiding principles

• If students are in the water near to your boat,
  turn the engine off.
• Even if they are not, consider turning the engine
  off.
• Involve the casualties in their rescue.
• Holding or raising the tip of the mast may be all
  that is required if sailors are tired.
• Whilst dealing with a rescue, the rest of the
  fleet may be without cover. Remain alert for them.

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High performance dinghies

• In a training context prevention is better than
  a cure, therefore..
• Use a mast-head float.
• Prevents inversion.
• Doesnt affect performance much.

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They can be squash containers or in this case, a
canoe air-bag.
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Just fasten it to the halyard.
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High performance dinghies

• In the case of entrapment, the priority is to
  bring the casualty to the surface.
• Either lift the spinnaker pole, or the stern to
  create an air gap.

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It will allow you to see under the hull.
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High performance dinghies

• Resist cutting lines, the sails will be easier to
  manage if you dont.
• Use wire cutters as a last resort and only then
  on the trapeze system.

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High performance dinghies

• If its a standard rescue..
• Get the spinnaker down first.
• Ask the dinghy crew to do this.
• If they cant, ask them how and do it yourself.

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High performance dinghies

• Drop other sails if possible.
• Roll jib if it has that system.
• Put wing/rack over RIB sponson and ask crew to
  sit on it.
• Remove dagger board.
• Pass line around mast.
• Consider spring towline to take strain.