5 great tips from Cap’n JP in preparation for the annual Atlantic rally For Cruisers. I will consider sailing gloves in a whole new light.
October 8
Good Advice from Cap’n JP for cruisers
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5 great tips from Cap’n JP in preparation for the annual Atlantic rally For Cruisers. I will consider sailing gloves in a whole new light.
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Yup, an out of control spinnaker’s halyard plus no gloves is a bad combination mid Atlantic – but results in useful preparation for changing babies nappies for another member of the crew 😉
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Definitely interesting thought about the gloves. On the schooner I used to work on in NY Harbor – I think every crew member that signed on that was new to sailing a big boat(myself included) let the mainsail throat halyard jump off the winch while dropping once.
Curiously enough, nobody ever did it twice. But, yes, you’d have a few days to think about it before you were fit to sail again. In the meantime somebody else would fill in for you.
Not a big problem when you’re doing 2 hour passenger trips to the Statue of Liberty. Crossing an ocean would be such a different story.
We contacted the hospital at Plymouth and their advice was go to straight to A&E. We had to point out we were 1,000 miles from land.
You are on your own out there.