Person Overboard- The figure 8 rescue

Learn how to sail back to a Person Overboard with means of the figure 8 rescue.

[@nyae111]

This video is ten years old, and still my favorite figure 8 COB demo. To the point, great aerial shots, "nicely played." Great job!

[@mvakleko]

Exactly after I saw this I started getting them almost every time. The aerials are very helpful to show both options.

[@yeahdoz]

Great video. The overhead shots make things very clear.

[@588158]

This is the absolutely the best video on Man Overboard! It cant get any better than this!

[@mlawrobertson]

Stopping the boat at the casualty would be better in a real MOB, but it is a good video.

[@588158]

Yes, I guess heaving to would be better.

[@mlawrobertson]

Just controlling speed a little better on final pick-up would be great. You cannot pick up a 90 kg person as you pass by, like picking up the water-can one-handed in the video, and you don't really want to stop the boat by grabbing them and dragging them through the water till the boat stops. A little more emphasis on the technique of filling and spilling the mainsail on a close reach would make clear how to control speed without relying on momentum. Still, it is a good video, and thanks for responding to my reply which I intended to be picky only in a positive way! After all, nothing is perfect.

[@danstein8074]

This is the best video of the Quick Turn method! Very thorough and well produced. Thanks for your contribution to sailing education. Dan, Lake Michigan BKI

[@nicksardo]

This is exactly how man overboard should be taught and shown. +1

[@wilsonblack2201]

I refer to this video a few times every sailing season, and practice it routinely. Knowing these maneuvers is confidence-building, plus they're a lot of fun!

[@markkurtis8637]

One of the best! Fast recovery. No time waisted taking in sails and starting engines. Having an extra crew member start the engine, leaving it in neutral, as a backup plan to aid with the final closing maneuver might be a good idea. However, the figure 8 keeps you close and gives you the ability to stall into irons at the MOB. There may be time needed to get that crew aboard.

[@clanyoung14]

One of the best MOB videos I have seen. Thank you.

[@davidncw4613]

Good stuff, TY! The wife walked by as I was watching, ''oh, he would be a great instructor!''.

[@jimbyrd8267]

I am taking a beginning sailing course and I was struggling to understand what I should be doing. Then I found your video and wow! I am excited to get back out there and try what I have learned from you. Thank you so much!

[@NagarjunKoujula]

I felt the same. Understood that needed more water time and practice.

[@glovesoffvideo]

Every time I teach a 2-day basic sailing course on a J24, I send students the link to this video at the end of the first day and before we attempt it on day 2. It’s a great intro!

[@CoastLife]

thanks for putting all that effort into this video!! it really helps get a grasp on what the figure 8 maneuver looks like in real life. keep up. the good work!

[@Cassiuschan1]

Great Video ! Like the different viewing angles and the precise explanation. Well done !!

[@onthebeaches]

Excellent video and great description. Every sailor on the big blue should be required to watch this. I learned a lot even though I'm still a newbie! Thank you for taking the 11 hours to do this. Your passion in intoxicating. I wish more people were this passionate about things they do! PEACE OUT!

[@TonyAnschutz]

Your teaching technique and attention to detail is excellent. Would love to see more vids like this from you.

[@stockrack]

The Jaw's music was my favorite! On a serious note this is an excellent video. Great job!!!

[@ckbond41]

What an excellent video and well explained. The aerial views is really great as well. You make it look so damn easy.

[@dfinchermd]

Great job. Disappointed to find no more tutorial content!

[@skyfreezr]

again, absolutely best video on the subject, I'm loving it !! can't wait to get out and try it :)

[@jimbyrd8267]

I was trying to see if there was another good MOB video and while some are good they are for motor yachts or sailboats with motors. My class uses 23' ensigns without a motor! This is the best for video for me. Again, thank you so much! I have to practice today and show I can do this Saturday! I am confident with a few practice runs I will be successful!

[@captainmarkgray8856]

Top notch informative video o---) When cruising always have 2 people on watch so one knows if / when the other one goes overboard. Always have everyone topside wear floatation like a Mae West and most of all, have them ALL carry a waterproof marine handheld radio attached to them with a fully charged battery because at night they can direct the boat to them vs you trying to see anything (even in the day with a good chop). At night also I have topside personal wear fanny packs with pen flares, knives, strobe lights etc... Even on a very calm sunny day I know of situations where people have gone over and died so when topside, be prepared for anything, even whales breaching on your boat, it all happens.

[@ronsteskool]

Thanks ! Great Video ! I like it and the comments makes us better and safer sailors .

[@sailawayteam]

Good technique, easy to remember, great video, great burns!

[@pacificpanache]

Great video and perspectives. Thanks.

[@nigelmtb]

Excellent video on this subject. I just got back from a trip and couldn't remember how to do this under sail! Sorted now.

[@prof_sceptic]

Lovely video nicely explained and illustrated . Thank you!

[@MitchHowes]

Thanks for the help. I am a newbie and this is a great training visual.

[@DynamicMentalFitness]

Wonderful video. Bob looks entirely happy with his lot in life.

[@chriswaters8602]

Great video, sound technique. Avoid a gybe at all costs. My preference is a windward side pickup because the sea helps lift the MOB but the risk is you quickly drift away. Leeward, in a big sea, you bounce the boat on their bonce! But you stay close.let us all hope we don't have to do it at night in 3 metre seas with 40 knots of wind. That is the proof of your technique!

[@lesbauman]

Great Video, Well done!

[@lgallant]

Yah! Glad to see you guys back! Would love if you could repost the engine maintenance videos too :-)

[@planetaryutilities]

Thank you for doing this!

[@Fausto.Realtor.Houston]

Great job. Thanks for the efforts.

[@beactivemontenegro7680]

Thank you guys, amazing job!

[@MailEscort]

Thanks for the aerial view. I am taking my light air rating exam this afternoon.

[@cournteyrod189]

Great Video on MOB, my ASA instructor needs to watch this video. Gave me a better understanding with the aerial views.

[@alanobrien7564]

thanks guys - great work!

[@carlosgodoy6830]

Thank you very much. Excellent idea to take some areal views and from the water!!! I will send the link to my colleagues in Germany. It will be very appreciate in order to send the link to people who are giving their first steps in sailing. Best regards from Chile. Carlos

[@yangyang3175]

when I was trained in the ASA course, the "man" was also called "Bob" !

[@svsuguijo]

great video.

[@frednedgold4636]

good job well worth the watch cheers

[@StewartGartland]

Sensationally good videos guys. I wish there was a lot more? I'd happily subscribe and pay of there was.

[@markrickel1632]

Nice video.

[@MustadMarine]

I prefer to sheet in the main tight on the downwind leg so that I can point toward "Bob" after I turn up on the last leg without wasting time trying to sheet in the main, which by the time you do you've already lost too much speed. And without the main, you can't point. If your pattern relies of blowing all your sails and drifting up toward Bob, then it will be hit and miss.

[@DOCCAREY]

great video- I have a point / question? ASA basic course had me do this years ago! What I find is actually better is to Heave To in about 5 seconds and find my boat is usually in arms reach of the POB.. Try this using a ball. Any opinion's is appreciated as I sail as a couple and find this easier! Cheers!

[@dougfitch3649]

I have to agree that less is more in an emergency situation. Just spot, throw flotation (keep spotting always), tack main & leave headsail as is to backwind. So far you've only changed your heading. Once turned toward POB, slacken main sheet to slow steer to just up wind and creep toward POB. If you're going down wind or up, same procedure.

[@simonparker4992]

Good video

[@pubu2010]

2 People on a boat and the experienced one falls overboard. This technique doesn't work. Heavy weather, large seas, you will lose sight of the person almost immediately in the waves. Get so far away you never find them again. I wouldn't dare try this technique in heavy weather. Way too complex and needs two experienced people aboard...rare. Instead instantly heave to and stop and stay right next to them. Easy to do and very easy to train inexperienced crew.

[@tryg222]

Do you have any videos on raising children? You do such a great job at explaining things! Thanks much for producing this video.

[@mikes2294]

Five stars ! GREAT

[@ToekneeToe]

Nice

[@hotttt28]

Getting your MLB backboard is the hard part, especially if the MLB is unconscious! The key here is keep everybody on board to begin with. Man Overboard equals death!

[@Glashutte1900]

Excellent Video Superb THANK YOU

[@Lehmann108]

I just learned this today! Too much speed on the rescue from the run approach

[@tos1o]

you should do a video about having a MOB with a spinaker on. this is tough...

[@meeechelle2731]

When you do the tack how come you do not sheet in? I ask this because in heavy winds you could not hold onto the falls as shown, and if you cannot hold onto the falls your boom coming across will be very violent.

[@ecoheliguy]

Yup fair weather sailing.......

[@greggoodman4164]

I totally love the triangle...I was out doing crew overboard with a class and after watching your video it all kind of clicked, especially the triangle...I mentioned it to the skipper and he liked that and used the triangle as well. The other day I was using COB to pick up balloons on the water... Once you get going from a beam to broad reach on the other tack it's all pretty easy from a point of sail perspective. I really do not want to have actually rescue an actual crew member as then you are in "house is on fire mode"...issues such as now how am I going to get the person back on board?...hypothermia?...why in the first place did they fall off? I sure as hell do not want to be the crew man overboard...but when I am up on the foredeck changing fore sails those thoughts do go through my head! great tutorial!

[@PickledShark]

Can you explain the triangle? seems like there would need to be a gybe by necessity

[@jasonquick9026]

I really love what you've done here. I understand there has been some scepticism with the success of this in heave seas etc...and that may be true, however this is only one of many techniques known...more the reason for you guys to do more clips...including retrieving a life-size bob back on to deck. More importantly though, you made it enjoyable to watch, it was energetic, fun and captivating....great ingredients for learning. Look forward to you guys doing more.

[@wcresponder]

Loved the lesson, the different possibilities and the 'Aerial' view. (you probably already got busted for that but had to do it). To bad you didn't do a reboarding video. If done in this same fashion would have been great. Cheers.

[@oceandrew]

"Too bad", you mean. If you're going to bust someone on spelling be sure you get yours right too. :-)

[@wcresponder]

oceandrew Spelling was right grammar was incorrect.

[@oceandrew]

wcresponder I guess you missed the irony that you could not get the spelling right in your own post as you corrected someone else, huh? :-)

[@wcresponder]

oceandrew There was so little that I had just about skipped over it.

[@gallan671]

Thank you

[@CruiserlifestyleBlogspot]

What is the reasoning for backwinding the jib on this maneuver? I use that for a quick stop but normally do a full tack for the figure 8, just curious.

[@michaelspranger104]

Hi Andrew. It helps you turn a little faster and tighter and therefore you don't have to sail as far far away to complete the tack. And in many situations when your crew goes over you don't have anyone left to operate the jib. Just leaving it makes your life simpler you can focus on the maneuver. Not a necessary step but can help...

[@walkernick86]

good... but I always approach with the MOB on my windward side. I think that way you don't risk accidently filling the sails and speeding off if you have to bear away a bit to reach the MOB. Should always approach a MOB from the leeward side, that way you can head into the wind and slow down as you reach the MOB.

[@rustyrose4684]

good job, now show it in a 20m/s

[@ozskipper]

Call it Man Overboard. Everyone knows exactly what it is. We dont have to be politically correct when it comes to safety. Man Overboard is understood by any english speaking person. "Person Overboard" will be followed with a "whhaaaaaat" and a dumb look by many crew members. However, Great vid.

[@mugseythedog]

Never to leeward.

[@whitefields5595]

The problem with a windward recovery is: You have to be very precise as you approach and can easily sail past. The windward side of the yacht will be higher to you have to reach down The recovery is likely to involve the MoB moving towards the stern and the prop

[@azbestusa8107]

2:16 why did you turn left instead immediately right ? and made this unnecessary loop - it would save you time

[@telesticcash7221]

these rescue maneuvers are incorrect. the mob should ALWAYS be to windward of the rescue craft unless you desire to crack a victim's head on the hull.

[@michaelspranger104]

Haha. Well good luck getting a person on board windward of your craft. Looking forward to the video!

[@mlawrobertson]

Surely it depends on the free-board of the yacht and your recovery method. Leeward pick up, drifting down on a sheltered casualty, is better for a large heeling vessel.

[@Hulks92]

Small keelboats of this size work well with the MOB on the windward side, yachts pick up on the leeward side