The crew are safe. Apparently they left the boat but didn't bother to tell anyone.
Scarborough sunk boat crew make contact after search - BBC News
True story. A long time ago, early 80's if I remember, a young couple departed the marina on a cold winter day. Father at the controls on the flybridge, mother and child in the cockpit. She sat the child down on the gunwale, of course the child fell overboard. Mom jumps in to save the kid. Dad jumps in to save both. No one was wearing life jackets, the boat was still in gear motoring away from them.If someone fell overboard not wearing a life vest, would you jump in to rescue them?
Maybe both would drown. The boat could simply float away from you and you from the boat in the water due to the currents.
That's my position as well.There was a tragic event here a year or so ago - a father with his young daughter were out in his runabout - they have never been found. The theory is that the child didn't have a life jacket on and fell overboard. The father jumped in to save her without a life jacket. They found the boat.
If a child falls in, the gasp reflex of hitting cold water will likely drown them if they don't float and can be rescued. Without a life jacket they'll sink right now. How will you rescue your child if they sink? If you have a pfd on, you can't dive. How fast does a child sink?
What if they fall off the dock on the way to or from the boat? If they are holding your hand and you both fall in? Can you swim in all your clothes and save the child too?
ALL children under 12 should wear a life jacket all the time on the water. This should be Rule Number One. I feel so strongly about this I offer to loan PDFs to visitors to the dock that I don't even know. I almost think its child abuse to not have them wear one.
Correct, but a small sailing craft might be termed a dinghy or sailing dinghy. Though a high performance sailing boat like an "18 footer" which can plane at speed tends to just get called an "18 footer".Greetings,
Mr. JLD. I think "yacht" is a British (European?) term for any sailing vessel to differentiate it from a motor vessel.
ALL children under 12 should wear a life jacket all the time on the water. This should be Rule Number One. I feel so strongly about this I offer to loan PDFs to visitors to the dock that I don't even know. I almost think its child abuse to not have them wear one.
Greetings,
Mr. JLD. I think "yacht" is a British (European?) term for any sailing vessel to differentiate it from a motor vessel.
There`s a frightening thought. I once owned a Santana 22 "yacht",one day we got into some weather, green water flowing both sides of the leeward winch....not a day you forget, in small yachts.I think that one is actually a Hunter 19'. One of those was sailed out to NZ from the UK years ago actually, amazing as that may sound...
No cure for stupid. Last year in Maryland a family rented a cruiser for a day. No experience. The father's hat blew off and he jumped in to retrieve it while in gear - leaving his wife and child aboard a vessel underway. He drowned in the process. To the good fortune of his family, a samaritan was able to catch up, board the now dead man's boat, bring it to a stop. No PFD, float plan, nothing. Multiple failures that became fatal.