In this episode we take our Life jackets in for testing - with some very surprising results! We talk AIS MOB units and show you the contents of our Grab Bag.

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in our last episode we got stuck in and

replaced our chain plates we improved

bow roller assembly and fixed our Fuhrer

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okay so this is my PFD and you're

wondering why the bladders out it's not

because I had a Man Overboard incident

and I had to get rescued it's because we

actually took our life jackets in for

for testing recently and we wanted to

get fitted up for a new little a is it

might be kit and so my jacket actually

failed its test and this is a very good

quality RFD jacket I've had it for about

eight years and I think I looked after

it pretty well it's got a few sort of

dirty marks on it because it does get

worn but I don't think I actually did

anything to it to warrant it failing and

all at hat actually was a little pinhole

where it had been crushed or something

had poked into it and that has rendered

this jacket useless so it would have

been no help to me in the case that I

had needed it so unfortunately my

favorite hole girl is a goner however

kind of a boon in a way because I ain't

even knew this is my new PFD and this is

a crew saver crew fit 165 which is rated

for offshore cruising

and it's an automatic inflates and it

actually has the harness integrators

which is fantastic because I used to

have to wear my big old harness and then

my life jacket and it was quite used to

be quite heavy it used to really quite

drag me down and I know a lot of people

don't wear them or do it all the time

because of that reason so it's really

good to have an integrated much lighter

and much more comfy to wear and this is

my tena that I lock off to various

points of the boat when I'm going

forward in foul weather so yeah well

when you know it's great the other thing

that we got while we were what we

originally went in there for where these

little units here and this is the rescue

me mo b1 and it is and an alarm really

it's a it's a Man Overboard unit and it

will put a signal iOS plot on your chart

plotter and also send a signal to your

DSC radio and alert not only your people

on board your crew but also any vessels

nearby that you're in the water and you

need assistance so yeah basically if

you're lost overboard the quickest form

of rescue is going to be your own vessel

or some vessel nearby and I love this

system for that so that's why we went

with the AIS Union yeah and that is

fitted unbelievably in this little

section inside the jacket which is

fantastic and it's an automatic unit as

well and as so it's got a theory

specifically fitted little mechanism in

here that when the jacket auto inflates

this unit automatically the area will

ping up and start sending off a signal

so we're really happy with that

that's really Rolly here right now

anyway that space so um yeah one thing I

did want to note about the whole life

jacket and I is feeling thing is that

you can sell fit these things and you

can self-test your life jackets which is

awesome but just pay particular

attention to how the life jacket came

apart how the gladder basically came out

because these I don't know if you're all

aware or not that these bladders are

fitted inside your jacket in a very

particular way according to your

manufacturing code and they have to come

out in that way that they're meant to be

packed otherwise you risk them not

actually inflating properly like one of

these if you've got to twist in it then

this part of the jacket might not

actually inflate so therefore you've

only got half a jacket holding you up

and stormy weather which it's not going

to help you out a lot so that's

something to pay attention to really um

you get you I think you do get

instructions with all your jackets there

really make sure that you do pack it in

the right way and the other things we

got the guys at with Sunday ocean

services to to show us how to fit this

and to fit it for us first time around

because there is a very particular way

there's got a little lanyard that has to

fit within the jacket in a very

particular way so that it's not too

looser it's not too tight and that it

will actually send once the gas canister

goes off in there and the jacket

inflates is a little mechanism that

actually pulls this little ripcord and

then sets off the mo B so it's quite a

process and I never knew that it was so

specific but yeah really pay attention

to that they do actually have quite good

instructions that come with a little

manual that comes with it but really

make sure that you do fit that correctly

because that guys were saying that what

they've seen us

people will part these up so basically

they sit way up here and then that means

that the AIS aerial can't actually auto

activate

then it won't actually go off be no use

to it all and the other thing that I

have seen people do it's a good idea but

it's actually not a good idea is they

actually attach the iOS unit on a band

around the outside of the jacket which

would stop the jacket actually from

ripping apart and inflating in the first

place which is not going to help anybody

so yeah just those things to pay

attention to that I really wanted to

make clear so yeah I just wanted to say

about the the rescue me a maybe one it's

an automatic unit so as soon as it gets

the attention on it and hits the water

with the lifejacket its aerial

automatically pops up and start sending

a signal and the reason we went for the

automatic one is because in the case of

the manual and you've got fingers that

are cold and not really working properly

and you're bustling around in oceans and

you've got your big jacket and flighted

you've then got to try and find your

aerial for a manual and manual unit and

yeah

look there's enough going on I'd rather

just hit the water and know that it all

occurs automatically so that's why we

went with the automatic module so yeah

that's about it for the PS DS loving

this one it's really good to wear so

yeah that's what we've got okay

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okay so as Darrin and I are going to go

back out offshore again I have been

going through the safety items that we

have on board just checking to see

what's what and then what we have on

board this is a grab bag and it is a 55

litre waterproof backpack and it lives

underneath our companion waist access

and rabbit and the case that we need to

abandon ship so this bag is actually

just an ancillary bag to our life raft a

life raft is actually impact with all

the essential items that are required

for survival so this is survival stakes

not like packing for a holiday kind

number yeah so if we don't manage to

grab this

before we abandon ship or we lose it as

we're sort of doing the whole hopping

into a life raft thing and sort of never

install me whether we've still got

enough survival gear in there life raft

if we do lose this backpack so I'll just

show you what's inside okay so it's got

a roll top which is how they keep the

water out nicely sealed radio first and

foremost are a bunch of flares

so this parachute rocket flares and

smoke clears and health wears a variety

of them sure that we check this

regularly and my first items that we can

grab out of the grab bag so we can

signal somebody in sunny hey over here

got it help so the other two things that

we've got as far as the flare so and I

think neither suit cool at comic branch

and these are smoke canisters and they

will let off orange smoke up into the

sky for three minutes so that is

actually a long time and a lot of orange

smoke up in the sky signaling to people

that you need assistance so yeah I think

they're pretty cool have actually radio

the signalling side of things this is a

cooler plb it's the authorities know

that you are in distress and it helps

and we also have on the inside of the

companionway stairs that we can grab and

take with us too as we jump in the life

raft all radio so we've also they've got

both documents and personal I did find

documents here just in case we land in a

foreign country on somebody else's ship

but is that

rightio a we've got a torch here and we

were just discussing this the other

night it's a waterproof torch which is

cool but it's pretty anyway what we're

going to do is we've got hit torches

that are also waterproof and they let

out 700 lumens of light so and also

they're on your head so gives your

hands-free light and we have got some on

auto we're just waiting for them to come

in okay so this is an orange blanket and

you basically lay it out so you make an

island for example and lay it out on the

beach and it's bright orange and it's

the common color for come and help

rescue us it's also got a signaling

mirror in it that you can use but people

in the eye

these are also a good piece of kit to

hand these would proof matches so we

have got a few arrays wrapped up in a

little waterproof bag radio for

sunscreen the case we're out for a long

period of time and we make an island

protect the skin a couple of periods of

Sonny's a couple of old hats and a

couple of old work shirts just to

protect us from the elements radio this

one is a good one this is a solar still

and it converts seawater into fresh

water for drinking so yeah we have

differently gonna keep this in the grab

bag a really handy piece of kit we

actually have got a canister of water

that's strapped to the back of the boat

the intention Mir is that we can grab it

and get that into the life raft as well

but say something happens you know we

drop it overboard and it specifically

floats off that way and we float off

that way

we made of lost cert or maybe you know

maybe it's too rough and we can't as you

give it to the life raft so we've got

the solar still as a

complete backup to make some water with

and this little guy I actually really

like this this is a drogue and basically

you thrown that this is the line to

attach it to the life raft and you throw

this out and it really fell weather when

you're scooting down big greenways

it'll actually slow you down and the

hopefully is stop the life raft from

tumbling over because there are quite a

few incidences of life rafts just sort

of tumbling and being overtaken by the

waves so the theory here is that the

drag will actually stop that from

happening and also it could be a fish

attracting device or a fish catching

device which could be pretty heavy I

read a story called the last voyage of

the loose fit which is my all-time

favorite story of a family who survived

I think it might have been sixty

something days at sea and yeah they were

surviving on our turtle blood so yeah

really good story to read yeah so that

is what we have currently in flight our

great bag and we are just going to add

some protein bars because I snaffled

them when I was hungry one day yeah

we're just going to add a few more

protein bars to the mix before we take

off again so that's pretty much what we

have in our grab bag and as I said it is

a survival kit so it has just survival

items yeah

Riley I hope that was helpful for you

this episode was filmed at the beautiful

whitehaven beach in the whitsundays we

hope you love the view

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