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Forum: Health, Safety & Related Gear 01-01-2018, 08:42
Replies: 165
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Posted By TrentePieds
Re: Why Do Sailors Still Die Being Dragged Along By Their Tethers?

@ Polu #132

As you say "without non-verbal clues..."

That was precisely the point I wished to make by the mea culpa in my post about the lines-kerfuffle. I think we all know that honey gets us...
Forum: Health, Safety & Related Gear 31-12-2017, 15:38
Replies: 165
Views: 31,650
Posted By TrentePieds
Re: Why Do Sailors Still Die Being Dragged Along By Their Tethers?

Billknny:

I would like you to know that I asked MyBeloved to read your post #116. She did, and came to me afterwards in a very pensive mood and wanted to talk about an incident on one of our...
Forum: Health, Safety & Related Gear 31-12-2017, 08:40
Replies: 165
Views: 31,650
Posted By TrentePieds
Re: Why Do Sailors Still Die Being Dragged Along By Their Tethers?

Quote ex Dale: “The big take away from all this for me Is I can not go in the water EVER or I will die. My partner does not leave the*cockpit. I have six padeyes in the*cockpit. “

The only...
Forum: Health, Safety & Related Gear 30-12-2017, 15:45
Replies: 165
Views: 31,650
Posted By TrentePieds
Re: Why Do Sailors Still Die Being Dragged Along By Their Tethers?

@Markus, #77:

Good job, Markus - you are picking up on the important stuff. I see you are in La belle Province, so you know from cold water too :-)

TP's store-bought boarding ladder is...
Forum: Health, Safety & Related Gear 30-12-2017, 14:39
Replies: 165
Views: 31,650
Posted By TrentePieds
Re: Why Do Sailors Still Die Being Dragged Along By Their Tethers?

Oh, but I think you do, Ken :-).

So let me just say, that the first things I taught MyBeloved were such things as have been emphasized here: You don't go in the cockpit without your floater c/w...
Forum: Health, Safety & Related Gear 30-12-2017, 12:38
Replies: 165
Views: 31,650
Posted By TrentePieds
Re: Why Do Sailors Still Die Being Dragged Along By Their Tethers?

@ Kenomac, #63:

Yes of course, Ken, but please see my thanks to Dockhead, #67 :-)

The boat you depict, I take it, is your own. Regrettably we can't all say that the Oyster is our world ;-)! ...
Forum: Health, Safety & Related Gear 30-12-2017, 11:05
Replies: 165
Views: 31,650
Posted By TrentePieds
Re: Why Do Sailors Still Die Being Dragged Along By Their Tethers?

@ Dockhead, #60

Thanks, Dockhead :-)! I'm not surprised that you have these things under control. You, and the other "old hands" here, sail boats that for the likes of me, and many novices that...
Forum: Health, Safety & Related Gear 30-12-2017, 10:33
Replies: 165
Views: 31,650
Posted By TrentePieds
Re: Why Do Sailors Still Die Being Dragged Along By Their Tethers?

Boatie makes an essential point in #10. How often do you see a yacht fitted with gear specific to the purpose of getting a MOB back aboard? Or even with gear that can be quickly applied to that...
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