Safety at Sea

Wow! Still winding down after a very intensive week preparing for and being part of presenting BC's first Safety at Sea course.

A fantastic experience working with an outstanding group of very high level sailors. I think we convinced people that PFDs are very good things to have on all the time as well as it is worth while to take time to plan for situations in advance rather than just react.

Particularly after the pool sessions with everyone swimming around in full gear, there were lots of grins. Fantastic to see how quickly groups worked as high functioning teams to solve problems and help fellow team members.

You can see that on Turicum everyone has a PFD and we even have the rookie on a safety harness.

While it took a bit of work to put the course together -- mostly done by David Sutcliffe -- I found it a great learning experience talking with other sailors, sharing their experiences and getting ideas from them how we can do things better on Turicum.

One of the things that made me very happy was to see a bunch of people buy into the idea of wearing PFDs al the time.