Person Overboard Retrieval

Hi All
Enjoying the start of my second season with my Getaway on the Pacific coast of Mexico. I have two questions.

First; my wife is concerned she doesn't have the upper body strength to get back in the boat if she falls off. We are considering making a small ladder to hand between the wings and a hull. Another idea is a sling that drapes between the wing and the hull and dips into the water. Then the swimmer can swim parallel to the hull and pull up to their knees and then up to the hull. Any ideas or thoughts?

2ND: I brought a Telo-cat windvane down to Mexico and now find its not made for a roller reefer. Any ideas on how to use it??

Best wishes for sailing soon.

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Lew

Hi Lew,

Not sure about the ladder, but I don't remember being that hard climbing back onto the boat the last time I capsized.
Personnally, my fear is not being able to right the boat by myself if when I sail solo. I need to practice that next time I'm out...

About the telo-cat, the getaway has the same issue as the Hobie 18.
There is an adapter page 19 of the Murrays catalog, that attach around the roller furling drum, part #08-1451. I haven't tried it, but may be it fits the getaway. Let us know if it works on your boat.
http://www.murrays.com/archive/19.pdf

Christophe.

As long as you're confident that you're strong enough to get back on the boat without help, then you can get on first. Then your wife swims beside the boat with her hands on the deck, you grab onto the shoulder straps on the top of her life jacket and help pull her up.

For the Telocat, as was said, there's an adapter that lets you use it with the furler.

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Thanks for the good inputs. I'll let you know how it works out.

I haven't tried a capsize exercise yet, either.

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Lew

I cannot get back on myself, too much freeboard. I have a marine rope ladder with plastic rungs that collapses to a small bundle, it hangs from the forward, starboard wing base. When bundled with bungies it is hardly noticeable.

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Frank, sailing '02 Getaway in Wichita KS. Lake Cheney
(Hobie 17 RIP, storm of '05)

I have tied a piece of line under the wings that falls almost to the water line and keep it out of the way by looping it and attaching a bungy cord to the lines under the wings. It seems to work fairly well

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Brooks

Frank
Great picture. Can you explain how the ladder is attached? Do you have two side ropes for the ladder, both attached to the front wing arm?
What kind of downhaul do you use?

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Lew

Stearns 5 step folding ladder
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000FPXXZ4?smi ... nkCode=asn

It is simply passed through itself as an attachment. The pipe sections fall into place when deployed and steady the rungs.

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Frank, sailing '02 Getaway in Wichita KS. Lake Cheney
(Hobie 17 RIP, storm of '05)

Thanks for the pics

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Lew

It does seem a bit difficult to get up at first, but the way that I've found that works best (and managed to get my pregnant sister-in-law back on the boat this way):

Grap on to the wings and get as forward as possible.
Get the boat moving a little bit, and float up (with your life jacket this is easy...you are wearing a life jacked, right?)
and then just roll onto the hull.

This can be helped by someone already on the boat just pulling your leg up and on.

I do not fit between the hull and a wing with a jacket on. I think the freeboard is only a big problem for people like me.

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Frank, sailing '02 Getaway in Wichita KS. Lake Cheney
(Hobie 17 RIP, storm of '05)