Originally Posted by
Wylieguy
Ants, I have the same problem with this capsize video as I have with the SAS "jump off the dock/into the pool" exercise. Of testing the emergency rudder on SF Bay. None of them offers what is likely to be real. You probably capsized due to wind and/or waves. Getting the boat turned around, getting in upright, and getting back in will be much more difficult than the example. In a small boat you're likely floating in your lifejacket because 1) you fell overboard due to winds and waves or 2) your boat sank. Unless your lifejacket has leg straps you'll struggle to keep it down and you'll struggle to keep waves from breaking into your face. Don't get me wrong, I think practice is a necessary, and I have practice jumped into pools or next to the dock several times to test floatation & clambering back onboard and I have recovered from many capsizings in small boats on lakes. I don't know about San Pablo Bay on a day with teenish winds and that short ebb chop? Or worse? At nearly 80, I don't think I have the physical capacity for any of the above on even semi-open water like San Pablo Bay, so these are the thoughts of an outsider for the RAID.