Lost in an inflatable dinghy

[Fore and Aft]

Lucky lady to be found and rescued.
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/world...cid=spartanntp

[Jim Cate]

A scenario that crosses my mind every time I'm returning to the boat with an offshore wind! Lucky to be alive... good on her for surviving.

Jim

[Fore and Aft]

Alain Bombard could certainly have given her a few tips.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alain_Bombard
Cheers

[Chotu]

Why my passengers and I are required to bring a VHF on every dinghy ride. No exceptions.

[Franziska]

Why we always have a small anchor on a long rode in the dinghy as well as a NicoSignal flare system.

[IslandHopper]

Anyone speak Greek?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lggx-sqESg0

[Dockhead]

Same rule on my boat. Note however that a mobile phone will be just as effective in most places.

Originally Posted by Chotu

Why my passengers and I are required to bring a VHF on every dinghy ride. No exceptions.

[Chotu]

Originally Posted by Dockhead

Same rule on my boat. Note however that a mobile phone will be just as effective in most places.

Absolutely. I agree. The VHF floats, is waterproof and provides immediate help, which is the only reason I strongly prefer it.

Channel 16 will get you help in a minute or 2 in the harbor or drifting out the mouth of one. I figure the seconds and minutes may help so I tend to still go with the VHF. But it's certainly true the mobile phone works as well.

[Nicholson58]

We see very few PFDs on dinghies in the Caribbean. Add that to the list.

[Sojourner]

Usually keep our anchor onboard dinghy, 4kg mantus on 5m chain spliced to15m line will hook us under any conditions. Vhf also always...phones good but no replacement for Vhf : here we unavoidably have to cross a commercial harbor a lot to get where we are going in the dink. If I crap out in that channel, I'm getting run down by a ferry. Vhf lets me call them, a mobile phone does not. Same for other boats who could give me a tow. Get a floating Vhf in your dinghy kit.

[Nicholson58]

The article didn’t say what was in her shopping cart. If she was out for days maybe it was food and fluids.