The MHC is actively working on safety recommendations. It seems to me that these same discussions pop up on the board, year after year. I think it would be great to have some of you form a think tank and come up with a best practices guide to help people in the future.
Simple things like, a VHF or cell phone is useless if it's in a hull or tramp bag (as opposed to on your person) should not have to be learned the hard way by people, over and over.
Could be one more benefit of US Sailing.
Mike
You don't have to look that far to find some very tried and true open water long distance beachcat safety equipement requirements. Simply take a look the GT300 and Tybee 500 for safety equipment requirements.
Mike why don't you guys just take those and have US Sailing put their seal of approval on them? Also who in US Sailing has the open water, long distance, beachcat sailing experience that could review and add value to what has already been established by the beachcat community?
