How to Survive If Your Boat Capsizes

What Should You Do If Your Boat Capsizes?

Raritan Engineering Company your macerator toilet specialists would like to share with you these topics we thought would be of interest to you this month regarding how to survive if your boat capsizes.

It can seemingly happen in a heartbeat: a following wave stuffs and rolls your boat, and you’re in the water. Or, the body of water is in your boat — a wave or wake over bow, transom or gunwales; a hull split; a through-hull failed. Your macerator toilet experts talk about how maybe (sigh!) someone forgot to install the plug. The first rule’s the same whether you’re in the drink or the sea’s in your boat: Stay with the boat! 

Your macerator toilet suppliers talk about how when you are in trouble, and someone is searching for you, the bigger “you” are, the better. “If someone’s looking for you from a C-130 or a helicopter,” says Christopher Todd, public affairs officer for the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary, or indeed, from another boat or from just about anywhere, “it’s like looking for a basketball floating in the water.”

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You’ve undoubtedly lost at least one hat overboard. Remember how quickly it seemed to disappear, even though you knew it was still floating? Wouldn’t it have been far easier to find if it had been clipped to a cooler or other large floating object? You’re the hat. Your macerator toilet distributors talk about how the boat — keel-up or in just about any posture but sunken — is the cooler, a much more visible target. 

Staying with the boat can also make survival a successful group effort! Share warmth, faith and confidence. Climbing out of the water, and huddling with others, slows heat loss and the impaired judgment it can bring. “If you believe you’re going to be rescued, and don’t panic” — and stay with the boat, Todd says, “that can be a huge factor.”

So don't forget these great tips for how to survive if your boat capsizes. 1) Stay with the boat;  2) be visible;  and 3) climbing out of the water, and huddling with others, slows heat loss and the impaired judgment it can bring.

Couple quit jobs for 'off-grid' life sailing round world and have 3 kids on way

A couple who left the UK to sail around the world ‘for a few years’ in 2011 are still going – and have got married and had three children along the way.

Jess Lloyd-Mostyn, now 36, from London, had never even stepped foot on a boat when she ‘joked’ to her then boyfriend James, now her husband, that they should buy a yacht and circumnavigate the globe. 

However, less than a year – and a few sailing courses - later, the couple left Falmouth and set off for the adventure of a lifetime.

"Mexican men are soppy as hell, they really value family there.

"It was fathers and grandfathers and young men stopping us in the streets and saying “oh my goodness, what a gorgeous baby you are so blessed”."

One of the things that having a baby on board made Jess and James think about was the amount of rubbish they produce.

Already very eco-friendly, choosing to mainly sail by wind power rather than using the boat’s motor, the couple had to think about the baby’s waste and how to deal with it.

Jess said they decided to use cloth nappies for that reason, adding that living on a boat had made them more “environmentally aware”.

She says the living costs ‘vary wildly’ from place to place but they spend just over £20,000 a year, which includes all their living costs.

They also review products for the boat and the babies, and champion eco-minded solutions.

Jess said: "We’ve never had a cot or a buggy – we had to figure out what works in our world.

"That’s how we got involved with Sleepyhead. On the boat, there’s no room for a cot, we wanted to co-sleep with our baby and we felt with a Sleepyhead we could do this safely."

Their daughter Rocket was their only guest, "and she slept through the whole thing!".

It was also en route to New Zealand that the couple decided to try for another baby.

Jess said: "When we started sailing with a baby it’s relatively straight forward, and it’s all lovely and static.

"We left Mexico with Rocket when she was just eight months old – it was our biggest crossing with 28 days at sea.

"She got her crawling down when we were on that crossing. Had her first birthday in Bora Bora, started walking in the Kingdom of Tonga.

Jess said: "We had a toddler who was walking and questioning and asking and engaging with the sailing and not a static passenger.

Jess added: "Our main table is our dining room table but it’s also our painting table our making table it’s where they are learning as they are home schooled.

"The boat is incredibly stimulating. Let’s say you’re in French Polynesia studying French foreign policy; let’s look at while sharks and rays; let’s look at the geography of how an atoll is formed. It’s a never-ending source.

"It’s we need to bake some bread today so how do we do that, how much flour do we need how much water do we need.

"It’s not a move against the standard education system. Any form of education that involves two parents who are totally engaged with it will hopefully be a positive thing."

So what’s next?

Jess says the family will spend some time "getting back to our usual life of turquoise water and swimming with rays" and then head to Malaysia and Thailand after leaving the UK in April.

But she admits they might not always stay at sea.

Jess added: "It would most likely to be planning how to we get hold of a school bus and convert it and drive around South America.

"Or finding ourselves a plot of land and build a treehouse there."

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