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From: Faure, Marin (no email)
Date: Fri May 04 2007 - 17:52:19 EDT
>Marin, How do you do a Man-Overboard recovery with the dink on the
swim platform?
The short answer is, we don't. On our boat we would not do a MOB
recovery using the swimstep anyway even if we didn't have a dinghy on it
because of the extreme difficulty of getting a person onto the swimstep.
We have a large pivoting ladder on the swimstep but if a person is
unable to assist themselves that's of no value. Anyone who thinks
getting an incapacitated adult from the water onto a swimstep is easy
should think again. We had to try this in the USCG Auxiliary boating
course we took way back when, and no one in the class could do it. The
weight is too much and the leverage too poor. But even if a person
could be gotten onto the swimstep, there is the difficulty of getting
them up over the transom on a GB.
So we would do an MOB recovery from the side of the boat. We have a
LifeSling and would use it to recover the person using the GB's boom.
We've actually practiced this and it works very well. A GB36 has a
relatively low freeboard so it's not difficult to hook the fall to the
harness. Both the boom and the fall are fitted with double-sheave
blocks and lifting 200-300 pounds is very easy.
However, if one had a reason to get someone aboard at the stern, with
the dinghy on Weaver Davits it would be easy to simply unclip the
standoffs and let the dinghy fall back into the water but remain
attached to the boat and pull the person into the dinghy, or at least
lash them to it while the boom lift was being set up. We have a
hardshell dinghy so it's easy to hang onto the side, or if the person is
incapacitated, there are plenty of attach points on the dinghy to tie
the LifeSling line to that would keep the person's head out of the
water.
Both these methods would work fine on a boat like a GB32, 36, 42 or even
46. But on other boats with other configurations or higher freeboard or
that don't have a mast and boom the side recovery might not work at all.
The stern of the boat may be the only option in which case a
stern-mounted dinghy would be a problem unless it was mounted in such a
way that it could become part of the MOB recovery system.
______________________________
C. Marin Faure
GB36-403 "La Perouse"
Bellingham, Washington
Marin,
How do you do a Man-Overboard recovery with the dink on the swim
platform?
Kevin
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