Sailing Magazine
By Richard Crockett
Here’s another excellent feature for all those who go to sea in small boats to read and inwardly digest.
This is how the introduction read: “For anyone considering an ocean voyage, a liferaft and an EPIRB (Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacon) are essential gear. Of course, we always hope we’ll never have to use them and most of us have a basic idea of how to deploy them, but what happens when the unexpected happens in really bad weather? What will you do?
“With more and more people cruising, and the move towards catamarans as the preferred way to cruise, it’s important to learn lessons from each incident. For sailors on catamarans, one of the questions that has been raised in the past is questioning whether to stay with the boat, which won’t sink, or to take to the liferaft, and what to do with the yacht’s tenders.”
The owner and skipper concluded with these sage words of advice: “We buy expensive yachts to go cruising on, but we don’t ever really consider what we should have in grab bags if we should have to leave in a hurry, and often worry about the cost of the extras”.
READ THE FULL REPORT HERE TO SEE HIS LIST OF ADDITIONS TO AN EMERGENCY GRAB BAG: Pages from 2015 12 – SAILING Magazine – OCR
