The Mariner

#101 | Safety at Sea | Rustling up a Meal in a Liferaft & Rescue Comms with Aircraft.

This episode we wrap up our look at surviving in a life raft.  What is plainly apparent from this six episode deep dive on the life raft is that there is LOADS of information to know, to give yourself and your crew mates a decent chance of survival.
If you would like to listen to serialized stories of the sea, selected and read by CSM, check out the Mariner's Library Podcast; available on all podcast platforms.
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#100 | Dogwatch | Did Josh Slocum Die at Sea? | Heaving-to in a Race Boat | Sail Boats as Bug Out Vehicles

Episode 100 and a new bight-sized (!) format to increase the subjects I can get too and allw me to speak about things that maybe somewhat off topic in a pure sailing show...
This week: 
1. Did Josh Slocum die when they said he did?
2. Heaving-to in a race boat.
3. Connecting with sailors from history through their accounts.
4. The podcasts numbers get a hearty increase.
5. Sailing boats as bug-out vehicles.
If you would like to listen to serialized stories of the sea, selected and read by CSM, check out the Mariner's Library Podcast; available on all podcast platforms.
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-mariners-library/id1710666955
If you would like to check out The Mariner Youtube Channel - we have gear reviews, how to videos, seamanship training videos and on the water reports. Remember to dock your finger carefully on the subscribe button!
https://youtu.be/t0cfY6HqjLA
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#99 | Safety at Sea | Abandoning Ship 5 | Fresh Water- the Liferaft Survivors' Nemesis

Water, water everywhere: and not a drop to drink.
When there are only a few pints of water to drink in the life raft and no indication of immediate rescue, it is essential for the life raft leader (who is not also necessarily the captain of the lost vessel) to immediately become extremely smart about water usage, water collection and the problems inherent in limiting humans access to water.
And all that, BEFORE dehydration robs all of the survivors of the mental and physical capacity to help themselves.
 
If you would like to listen to serialized stories of the sea, selected and read by CSM, check out the Mariner's Library Podcast; available on all podcast platforms.
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-mariners-library/id1710666955
If you would like to check out The Mariner Youtube Channel - we have gear reviews, how to videos, seamanship training videos and on the water reports. Remember to dock your finger carefully on the subscribe button!
https://youtu.be/t0cfY6HqjLA
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#98 | Safety at Sea | Part 11 | Abandoning Ship 4

This episode we continue our in-depth look at chapter 7 of Keith Colwell's Sea Survival Handbook, specifically entering a liferaft and the vast amount of actions there are to remember and take to make the most out of the meagre opportunity such a craft offers survivors.
If you would like to listen to serialized stories of the sea, selected and read by CSM, check out the Mariner's Library Podcast; available on all podcast platforms.
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-mariners-library/id1710666955
If you would like to check out The Mariner Youtube Channel - we have gear reviews, how to videos, seamanship training videos and on the water reports. Remember to dock your finger carefully on the subscribe button!
https://youtu.be/t0cfY6HqjLA
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#97 | The ABC of Sailing | J is for Jargon

In this episode I continue the ABC of sailing, with the letter J. and 'J is for Jargon'
This time I look at the history, benefits and disadvantages of all the jargon used in sailing and take a look at the entries in the J section of the 1952 volume, 'Mariner's Dictionary' that help to underline just how dense, granular and historically-rooted many of the words used in sailing really are, and how nonsensical it is to make language a barrier to teamwork on a vessel at sea.
If you would like to listen to serialized stories of the sea, selected and read by CSM, check out the Mariner's Library Podcast; available on all podcast platforms.
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-mariners-library/id1710666955
If you would like to check out The Mariner Youtube Channel - we have gear reviews, how to videos, seamanship training videos and on the water reports. Remember to dock your finger carefully on the subscribe button!
https://youtu.be/t0cfY6HqjLA
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#96 | Questions & Tangents 12 | Over-riding Turns, Poor Winch Placememt & Finding Warm Gloves for Sailing

In this episode we discuss Youtube viewer questions relating to:
1. Over rides on winches, how do they happen, how to avoid them and how to deal with them when they appear anyways.
2. Operating winches on boats with awkwardly mounted equipment  (Swans!)
3. Finding gloves that keep you warm and dry. (Hint- the answer is NOT gloves!)
If you would like to listen to serialized stories of the sea, selected and read by CSM, check out the Mariner's Library Podcast; available on all podcast platforms.
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-mariners-library/id1710666955
If you would like to check out The Mariner Youtube Channel - we have gear reviews, how to videos, seamanship training videos and on the water reports. Remember to dock your finger carefully on the subscribe button!
https://youtu.be/t0cfY6HqjLA
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#95 | Safety at Sea | Part 10 | Abandoning Ship 3

Continuing with the lunchtime recording sessions (while my two year old is having his nap (!), this time we are looking at what happens after you have made the decision to leave the vessel due to fire, sinking, collision etc.
This begins with getting into the liferaft of course, but quickly escalates into a whole new kind of seamanship, as you and the other people in the raft have to start to work together to get other survivors out of the water, stay alert to external threats that may damage the raft, and deal with such realities as opening the door regularly to vent C02 & deciding how to use the sea anchor to manoeuvre around the debris field.
 
If you would like to listen to serialized stories of the sea, selected and read by CSM, check out the Mariner's Library Podcast; available on all podcast platforms.
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-mariners-library/id1710666955
If you would like to check out The Mariner Youtube Channel - we have gear reviews, how to videos, seamanship training videos and on the water reports. Remember to dock your finger carefully on the subscribe button!
https://youtu.be/t0cfY6HqjLA
To support the production of this material please consider heading over to Patreon. https://www.patreon.com/themariner

#94 | Safety at Sea | Part 9 | Abandoning Ship 2

In this episode we continue the brilliant RYA Sea Survival Handbook by Keith Colwell
This time we are looking at Abandoning Ship!, words that should drive an icy spear into any good skippers heart!
This section of the book will take a few days to cover and I am doing this while snowed in (with a two year old) during the worst winter storm in Nova Scotia in 20 years .. So, apologies if the audio is not as engineered as normal!
If you would like to listen to serialized stories of the sea, selected and read by CSM, check out the Mariner's Library Podcast; available on all podcast platforms.
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-mariners-library/id1710666955
If you would like to check out The Mariner Youtube Channel - we have gear reviews, how to videos, seamanship training videos and on the water reports. Remember to dock your finger carefully on the subscribe button!
https://youtu.be/t0cfY6HqjLA
To support the production of this material please consider heading over to Patreon. https://www.patreon.com/themariner

#93 | Safety at Sea | Stepping UP into the Life Raft

This time we are looking at Abandoning Ship!, words that should drive an icy spear into any good skippers heart!
This section of the book will take a few days to cover and I am doing this while snowed in (with a two year old) during the worst winter storm in Nova Scotia in 20 years .. So, apologies if the audio is not as engineered as normal!
If you would like to listen to serialized stories of the sea, selected and read by CSM, check out the Mariner's Library Podcast; available on all podcast platforms.
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-mariners-library/id1710666955
If you would like to check out The Mariner Youtube Channel - we have gear reviews, how to videos, seamanship training videos and on the water reports. Remember to dock your finger carefully on the subscribe button!
https://youtu.be/t0cfY6HqjLA
To support the production of this material please consider heading over to Patreon. https://www.patreon.com/themariner

#92 | Questions & Tangents 11 | The 1974 'Orgy of Destruction on Barnstaple Beach'

Questions and Tangents ! As always I get to talk about kinda whatever I want in these episodes, and this week it's a newspaper article from 1974 that's got me excited- I think when you hear about 'The Orgy of Destruction outside Barnstaple' you too will be excited.
A little shorter this week as we haven't done one of these for a long time and I am short of questions to answer- if you could help me out with that I would appreciate it!
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