Foiling Moth sailor rescued

 

My question really is what the moth sailor reckons he'd do differently....that's

going to be different for each class, and is probably important info for the "mothies".

 

Our learning was that we now carry a rigging "unfriendly" knife inside the boat for such eventualities.

 

In 2006, our training group were prepping for the Hayling Worlds - training halfway to Bembridge, in a 20 knot Northerly (January) when a snow storm blanked out Hayling Island...!!  Going home, upwind through the snow we laughed that we wouldn't have liked to be in anything less seaworthy than the 505. 

 

Again, learning is that we'd never go off the coast without another boat who can go and get help, and we take a warm drink out when sailing offshore - buy ourselves an extra hour or two.

 

Let's not judge the sailor.  The important thing is to know what he thinks he should do differently next time.  no blame here, merely thanks for the RNLI.

Risk ignorant

Risk cavalier

Risk averse

Risk sensible

Sometimes it takes a personal or third party experience to make us realise where we lie.

To some this seems risk cavalier, to others risk ignorant.

The response of some has a risk averse tone.

For me let's just take the lessons and become more risk sensible.