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Safety and our Mission

Required Reading DHF

Safety Issues By Topic

 

 

Safety and Our Mission

BAMA wants all sailors to be safe when sailing. To that end, BAMA sponsors annual meet-ups and safety events meant to increase a sailor's knowledge and experience around safety procedures and practices.  The following reference materials and shared safety stories are provided to improve safety for our sailing community.

Required Reading for Double Handed Farallones Race

    • Final Report on Low Speed Chase Incident, Appendix J: GPS Track Summary, (pages 76-80)
    • Storm in the Gulf of the Farallones: a Sailing Disaster (10-11 April 1982)

Safety Issues By Topic

  • General Seamanship and Safety Reference
    • Safety at Sea Core Topics Handbook
    • Ocean Wave Basics
    • Introduction to Oceanography, Wave Basics
    • Waves, Swells and Seas
    • Your Radio with DSC and How to use it in an Emrgency
    • Pacific Cup Knowledge Base
  • Man Overboard and Recovery
    • BAMA MOB Exercise 8/18/2019
    • Notes from 2005 Crew Overboard Symposium
  • Emergency Steering
    • Jury Steering
    • Emergency Rudder Design - The Soft Rudder
    • Scuttlebutt Sailing News: Guide to Steering without a Rudder: Methods and Equipment Tested
    • Emergency Steering with a Drogue, A new Approach
    • Drogue Steering
  • Sailing First Aid
    • Hypothermia
    • Sea Sickness
    • Basic First Aid Kit
    • Red Cross Wilderness First Aid Guide
  • Race Incident Reports
    • US Sailing Incident Report: 2013 Islands Race - Uncontrollable Urge
    • The Capsize of Anna
    • The Capsize of Leopard
    • US Sailing Incident report of Wingnuts Capsize Chi-Mac Race

 

 

Contact SFBAMA: info@SFBAMA.org
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