Safety First When Helping Someone!

jbbkamp · Post by **jbbkamp** » Mon Jul 23, 2012 8:49 am

Had a great day sailing with some friends yesterday afternoon at Red Rock, fairly stiff winds 15, gusting to 20-25 made for some fun and excitement. We sailed similar to Captain Scott mentioned in his last post, sailing full sail but letting off on the main in the puffs...and we had 3 adults up on the side of boat hanging over the edge hanging on plus myself on the seat...kept us to 20-30 percent heel in the puffs.

However, on our way back to the marina we noticed life flight and several dnr/search and rescue boats patrolling the coast near the marina. Several ambulances, police cars, dnr vehicles, and a fire truck were all parked near the docks when we came in to pull the boat out. They had to clear us for pulling the boat out. Unfortunately, a man was presumed drowned near the marina area. Please rememember the familys involved...it was a dad trying to swim out to their 6 year old who drifted a bit too far from the boat. Kinda struck home since we've got kids of a similar age. We do however, always swim with life jackets on.

Here's the link...we were on the WHO 13 news pulling our boat out of the water.

http://whotv.com/2012/07/23/lake-search ... ssing-man/

Brian

CaptainScott · Post by **CaptainScott** » Mon Jul 23, 2012 9:03 am

That is cool to see a C20 on the news but extremely sad reason for it. My heart goes out to the families involved.

Scott