{"id":5378,"date":"2012-06-08T06:19:06","date_gmt":"2012-06-08T14:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/?p=5378"},"modified":"2012-08-17T16:38:38","modified_gmt":"2012-08-18T00:38:38","slug":"150n","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/150n\/","title":{"rendered":"150N"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last night was potluck with my good friends and we got to talking about what we had been up to over the past few weeks since last potluck. I had Paul with me (sea survival instructor) and everyone wanted to know what we were teaching. As I had the 150N foam lifejacket in the back of my truck I brought it in along with my spinlock deck vest. So it became a teaching session on lifejackets and radio calls. <\/p>\n

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\nThe lifejacket in the picture is the 150N jacket which you would have to wear racing in Cat 0, 1 and 2 races if you didn’t where an inflatable. San Francisco is the only place I race where people haven’t educated themselves as to why kayak vests are not the acceptable form of flotation for racing offshore. We are changing that! A kayak type vest has about 50N of bouyancy, no yoke collar (so it won’t turn you upright) and no crotch straps (so it will come over your head). <\/p>\n

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I obviously don’t wear the foam so my offshore lifejacket of choice is the Spinlock 150N pro sensor modified with a manual inflate I have been wearing one since they first came out. Why… well it has crotch straps (a lifejacket is useless without them), it has a splash hood so I don’t die of secondary drowning and it will roll me face up. <\/p>\n

So the courses were a great success. We got 42 people through the course and we hope it is a start to changing the culture of safety within the bay. <\/p>\n

What does M I P D A N I O stand for? Well it is an acronym for the contents of a Mayday message you would make in grave and imminent danger. <\/p>\n

Mayday
\nIdentification
\nPosition
\nNature of Distress
\nAssistance required
\nNumber of people aboard
\nAny other information
\nOver<\/p>\n

That’s all for now… have a great weekend. I will be racing up to Drakes Bay on Rhumb Boogie and back on Saturday and Sunday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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