Useful Resources Archives
Man Overboard – Could your crew cope?
Following extensive research (including contribution from noonsite readers) plus sea trials with the RLNI, Clive Loughlin in conjunction with Sailing ...
Creating a Float Plan: What and Why
Writing a float plan is a simple thing to do, maybe critical in the event of an emergency, and is all too easily set aside and left undone in the ...
Liferaft: Selecting and Servicing
A very useful report by long-distance cruisers SY Totem who researched in depth the type and make of liferaft to buy for their circumnavigation, but ...
Liferaft: Know Your Life Raft Inspection Requirements
Spring is when many sailors have to bite the bullet and have their liferaft inspected, an expense that costs 10 to 30 percent of the price they paid ...
Grab Bag: How to prepare an emergency ditch bag
The emergency ditch bag is to cruisers and offshore racers what generators are to land lovers: you invest in it and pray that you never have to use ...
RYA reminds of the need to wear kill cords
Following the publication of the Marine Accident Investigation Branch’s Safety Bulletin 1/2013 on 17 May 2013 the RYA is reminding everyone ...