November 28

Man overboard video in South Atlantic

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This is scary but has a happy ending. It's a video from the BBC of a sailor in the Clipper race on Hull and Humber being swept overboard.

Whenever I have sailed offshore, I have sometimes felt that skippers are a bit melodramatic in the routines they set for how to clip on. One in particular told me that the second I poked my head through the companion way I was to clip on. And on returning back down below, not to unclip till the last possible second. Now I see why.


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