Sometimes the simplest posts are the best. In an overboard situation, seconds count and human beings are heavy. Could you bring a person aboard without a ladder? You could if you used this simple technique from the National Safe Boating Council. Lock this one into your memory banks.
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Senior Editor, Power & Motoryacht
Chris Dixon is the author of Ghost Wave and The Ocean, The Ultimate Handbook of Nautical Knowledge. His writing has appeared in The New York Times bestseller The Southerner’s Handbook. His writing has also appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Outside, Popular Mechanics and Garden & Gun. He grew up boating, fishing and surfing along the coasts of South Carolina and Georgia, once spent a year working and traveling with Jimmy Buffett and today lives in Charleston with his wife, son and daughter.
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