More Rescue Practice

Today we had another couple of hours on Coniston Water practicing our rescue skills. Last time we had Barry an instructor with us, this time we were on our own.

We once again practiced the different tows.

Tina practicing a waist tow

We also practiced self rescue and peer rescue. For us both the peer rescue is coming on well, for Tina the self rescue is also coming on well and for me I'm still having difficulty with the self rescue. Oh well I’ll keep practicing until I get it.

Tina practicing a self rescue

Once we are slick at the rescue skills on flat water our next area of practice will be in a slightly bumpy sea.

Towing and Rescue

Today we had another session with Barry, this time on Coniston. The aim of the day was to learn more rescue techniques and to practice them.

We started with the different types of tows. Contact tows, tows using short ropes attached to deck lines on both boats. We also towed each other using waist tows.

After lunch there was no avoiding (all though I did for a while) getting wet. We tried different self rescue techniques. Tina managed both the cowboy and ladder self rescue, I failed miserably at the cowboy and still need to try the ladder one. We both did the T-rescue, taking the part of the rescuer and swimmer. I was also rescued by Barry using the scoop rescue method.

For the next stage of this journey we need to get out and practice all these self rescue and rescuing each other techniques on our own, until we are really slick at them.

For our last few trips we failed to take a camera, I’ll try and remember next time so that we can add some photos of us practicing the self rescue techniques.