OldDan1943
Guru
- Joined
- Oct 2, 2017
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- Location
- USA
- Vessel Name
- Kinja
- Vessel Make
- American Tug 34 #116 2008
Usually just stopping and backing down/turning around is better than any fancy MOB maneuvering usually found in manuals or autopilots. Williamson turns are for large vessels that cant stop in a couple hundred feet like most of us can. If you loose sight of the MOB....bad things can happen. In a 2 mile turn, drift can carry the MOB off the trackline.
Backing down??? Good way to chop up up the person you are trying to rescue. Alas, it happened in the Miami area on a 'go fast' outboard boat. Killed one, injured one, cut their leg off.
Remember, you cut your throttle, take is out of gear, the prop is still turning.
Toss a PDF, Cut the throttle, turn into the person in the water, moving the propeller away from the person. Preform a figure 8 retrieval putting the person on the windy side of the bow. Cut the throttle, out of gear and coast until the person is at the swim platform.
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