[Rhodes22-list] Beer Overboard

[Bob Weber]

Slim, ASA teaches the Figure 8 meathod.  It is a little slower but your 
chance for success goes way up.  Soon as you hear a splash you turn to a 
Beam Reach (either tack).  As you sail away from MOB you are NOT getting any 
higher or lower than the MOB (it is all about expending your last bit of 
energy when you are near the MOB).  You come about and head back to MOB (you 
should be on a beam reach going back as well.  About 4 or 5 boat leghts away 
you reduce the boat speed by loosing the head sail then you gain some energy 
  (point 30 to 45 degrees below the target.)  When that distance is cut in 
half you spend some energy heading straight at MOB.  Ideally you shoud be on 
a close reach now (you can still head up a bit if needed w/o stalling)  At 
about 20 feet
release the main sheet to where you are only gliding toward victum.  If you 
need to lose more speed you head directly up wind when you get MOB next to 
boat.  The description sounds much more difficult than the practice.  I 
teach the students to use reference points on the boat to make the exercise 
more repeatable.  For instance when heading back to MOB on beam reach at 
about 4-5 BLs away I have them fall off till the victum is visable on the 
other side of the most forward stanchion and sail that course until MOB 
reaches the aft stanchion and then head right toward him.  It works pretty 
well, it is a shallow dip and usually you reach the MOB with a little too 
much energy but it is very repeatable which is good especially if you value 
the object to be recovered and you are very excited.  When I was young my 
dad did what he called a slam tack.  As soon as he heard a splash he would 
thow the boat into the wind and let the head sail back.  We would evenutally 
drift back on the object, more or less.  I still do this out of habit but it 
is useless going downwind.  The thing to get used to is to try to recover 
everything, trash, old hat, anything that goes over.  Give nothing to davey 
jones and you will get plenty of practice in no time.  Hope it helps.

Bob Weber

>From: Slim <salm at mn.rr.com>
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>Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Beer Overboard
>Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 13:56:57 -0600
>
>Bob,
>
>Can you give us a few pointers?  Tack vs. jibe?  Figure 8?  Do you have any
>specific down wind/up wind maneuvers?  Anything would be helpful.  I plan 
>to
>work on this a lot this summer.
>
>Dog overboard will likely happen to us too some day.  He wears a doggie PFD
>(a DFD?) with the handle on the top making it easy to grab him and lift him
>into the boat, and we keep him tethered to the boat when we're under way.
>Still, it could happen.
>
>Slim
>
>On 4/17/06 9:29 AM, "Bob Weber" <ruba1811 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > "Rum, Motoring, Person in the water" That combination Kills 4 to 5 
>people
> > every year just on one lake in missouri, Lake of the Ozarks.  Everyone 
>knows
> > of someone who at least knows someone that experienced this tragedy, yet 
>it
> > still happens.  I would strongly suggest you sail back to the MOB.  If 
>you
> > are not practiced doing this, it makes for pretty good fun on a slow 
>wind
> > day.  Toss a cushion over and sail back to it.  I wont pass my students
> > unless the are able to have the MOB with in boat hook distance of the 
>boat
> > somewhere between the mast and the stern with the boat nearly stopped.  
>You
> > will use this skill countless other times with Hat overboard, Coozie
> > overboard, I have even had to recover Dog overboard (that was tough - He
> > kept moving to where I was and changing where i was going).  Bob Weber
> >
> >
> >> From: R22RumRunner at aol.com
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> >> To: rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org
> >> Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Beer Overboard
> >> Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2006 10:46:29 EDT
> >>
> >> Slimmy,
> >> It is a drink holder attached to his life vest. I believe there is a 
>straw
> >> from which he can get a sip whenever he wants. Past experience with my
> >> Hobie
> >> tells me this is a brilliant device.
> >>
> >> Bill,
> >> Practicing the MOB drill is very important. We have a rule on Rum 
>Runner
> >> that should anyone ever go overboard, the next thing done is to throw a
> >> cockpit
> >> cushion towards the individual. This eliminates the need for a hasty
> >> recovery,
> >>  unless you happen to be in cold water where hypothermia becomes an 
>issue.
> >> With a  good floating device in the water, you can take your time 
>coming
> >> back to
> >> the  MOB, even dropping sails and motoring over to them. It would also 
>give
> >> them some  time to get over how stupid they were in the first place for
> >> going
> >> overboard,  unless of course, they have been drinking massive 
>quantities of
> >> rum, which is a  legal excuse anywhere. IMHO.
> >>
> >> Rummy
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