Fun Pics - The Grand Bend Yacht Club

Soundings
2012 July issue
Grand BendPics Taken by George Dutka, JUne 2012
Soundings submission
deadline for the August
2012 issue is July 25
Contents
Wharfinger’s Update 1
2011 Trent-Severn Holiday 2
Launch Day Pics 6
Work Day Pics 7
Brunch Pics 7
Sail Past Pics 7
More Pics 8
The Larder 9
Greetings 10
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Drowning
Submitted By Sylvia Gozzard
Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning
This is a reprint of a post which appeared in the July 6, 2010 edition of H2O Notes.
The new captain jumped from the cockpit, fully dressed, and sprinted through the water. A former lifeguard, he
kept his eyes on his victim as he headed straight for the owners who were swimming between their anchored
sportfisher and the beach. “I think he thinks you’re drowning,” the husband said to his wife. They had been
splashing each other and she had screamed but now they were just standing, neck-deep on the sand bar.
“We’re fine, what is he doing?” she asked, a little annoyed. “We’re fine!” the husband yelled, waving him off,
but his captain kept swimming hard. ”Move!” he barked as he sprinted between the stunned owners.
Directly behind them, not ten feet away, their nine-year-old daughter was drowning. Safely above the surface
in the arms of the captain, she burst into tears, “Daddy!” How did this captain know, from fifty feet away, what
the father couldn’t recognize from just ten? Drowning is not the violent, splashing, call for help that most people
expect. The captain was trained to recognize drowning by experts and years of experience. The father, on
the other hand, had learned what drowning looks like by watching television. If you spend time on or near the
water (hint: that’s all of us) then you should make sure that you and your crew knows what to look for whenever
people enter the water. Until she cried a tearful, “Daddy,” she hadn’t made a sound. As a former Coast Guard
rescue swimmer, I wasn’t surprised at all by this story. Drowning is almost always a deceptively quiet event.
The waving, splashing, and yelling that dramatic conditioning (television) prepares us to look for, is rarely seen
in real life.
The Instinctive Drowing Response – so named by Franceso A. Pia, Ph.D., is what people do to avoid actual
or perceived suffocation in the water. And it does not look like most people expect. There is very little splashing,
no waving, and no yelling or calls for help of any kind. To get an idea of just how quiet and undramatic from the
surface drowning can be, consider this: It is the number two cause of accidental death in children, age 15 and
under (just behind vehicle accidents) – of the approximately 750 children who will drown next year, about 375
of them will do so within 25 yards of a parent or other adult. In ten percent of those drownings, the adult
will actually watch them do it, having no idea it is happening (source: CDC). Drowning does not look like
drowning – Dr. Pia, in an article in the Coast Guard’s On Scene Magazine, described the instinctive drowning
response like this:
1.
Except in rare circumstances, drowning people are physiologically unable to call out for help. The respiratory
system was designed for breathing. Speech is the secondary or overlaid function. Breathing must be
fulfilled, before speech occurs.
2. Drowning people’s mouths alternately sink below and reappear above the surface of the water. The mouths
of drowning people are not above the surface of the water long enough for them to exhale, inhale, and call out
for help. When the drowning people’s mouths are above the surface, they exhale and inhale quickly as their
mouths start to sink below the surface of the water.
3. Drowning people cannot wave for help. Nature instinctively forces them to extend their arms laterally and
press down on the water’s surface. Pressing down on the surface of the water, permits drowning people to
leverage their bodies so they can lift their mouths out of the water to breathe.
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4. Throughout the Instinctive Drowning Response, drowning people cannot voluntarily control their arm
movements. Physiologically, drowning people who are struggling on the surface of the water cannot
stop drowning and perform voluntary movements such as waving for help, moving toward a rescuer,
or reaching out for a piece of rescue equipment.
5. From beginning to end of the Instinctive Drowning Response people’s bodies remain upright in the water,
with no evidence of a supporting kick. Unless rescued by a trained lifeguard, these drowning people can only
struggle on the surface of the water from 20 to 60 seconds before submersion occurs.
(Source: On Scene Magazine: Fall 2006)
This doesn’t mean that a person that is yelling for help and thrashing isn’t in real trouble – they are experiencing
aquatic distress. Not always present before the Instinctive Drowning Response, aquatic distress doesn’t
last long – but unlike true drowning, these victims can still assist in their own rescue. They can grab lifelines,
throw rings, etc.
Look for these other signs of drowning when persons are n the water:
• Head low in the water, mouth at water
• Head tilted back with mouth open
• Eyes glassy and empty, unable to focus
• Eyes closed
• Hair over forehead or eyes
• Not using legs – Vertical
•Hyperventilating or gasping
•Trying to swim in a particular direction but not making headway
• Trying to roll over on the back
• Ladder climb, rarely out of the water.
So if a crew member falls overboard and every looks O.K. – don’t be too sure. Sometimes the most common
indication that someone is drowning is that they don’t look like they’re drowning. They may just look like they
are treading water and looking up at the deck. One way to be sure? Ask them: “Are you alright?” If they
can answer at all – they probably are. If they return a blank stare – you may have less than 30 seconds
to get to them. And parents: children playing in the water make noise. When they get quiet, make sure to get
to them and find out why.
Click for Source
video of the Instinctive Drowning Response
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Fun Pics
Submitted By George Dutka
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More Fun Pics
Submitted By Sylvia Gozzard
Husband Confides to Wife at
Boat Show:
“If it’s the last thing I do, I’m
gonna buy you one of these.”
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Upcoming Events
For those departing for the North Channel:
PROPANE … BAD/GOOD NEWS
I have received more emails and calls from boaters about this issue then about any other concern. Ontario’s
stringent laws about propane refill stations have made it very difficult for small service areas to justify the
expense. The Little Current and Killarney stations are closed for this reason. Most communities have the tank
exchange stores for the 20lb BBQ tanks but these are of little use to boaters with their special sized tanks.
Boaters who went to the people at NAPA in Little Current who helped by having tanks refilled in Manitowaning
will not be able to do so as the Manitowaning site is now closed also.
The good news:
You can still get your personal tanks refilled in Gore Bay and Spanish. In both cases, the operation is several
km away from the docks but for a modest fee the store in Gore Bay will pick up and return your tanks in a short
period of time. In Spanish, Glen Parsons, LAST RESORT wrote that the Esso Station in town has a refill station
but you have to arrange to get your tanks to them. If you are in Little Current and have access to a vehicle, you
can obtain a refill in Mindemoya (40 km away)
NORTH CHANNEL WATER LEVELS
The gauge in Little Current is recording an average reading of 0.1m (4”) above chart datum. Last year at this
time, the water level averaged .2m (9”) above chart datum.
The above articles submitted by: George Dutka
Ontario Sailing Association,
Grand Bend Yacht Club, Boom Sailing School
First week starts, Monday, July 23 and runs ‘til Friday, July 27
Second week starts, Monday, July 30 and runs ‘til Friday, August 3
Saturday, August 4
Civic Holiday BBQ
Saturday, August 18--Bayfield Yacht Club
The William Given Race
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Boats For Sale
14’ Pintail Sailing Boat
Mum
Trailer
Outboard Motor
Has been stored alongside our house for four years
and needs cleaning...Asking $1,100
Great little boat for beginners
Call Haydn Gozzard
(519) 238-5433 for details and to view
Click to read: Pintail Owner’s Manual
Click for Pintail Specifications
25’ Lancer Sailboat owned by Doug Nemeth
Queen Lisa
26’ Mirage Sailing Boat
Slo Motion
Hull #85, LOA 26’2”, Beam 9’3” Draft 4’4”
Click for specifications
Call Bill Gray
(519) 663-1857 or cell (519) 636-6882 for details
and to view
well maintained and performs well as a
PHRF Club racer
1976 Lancer 25 for sale.
$2,500 ABO.
2.5” draft
8 hp longshaft outboard with power prop
Cradle
2 sails
Extra rudder
Currently in the water at Grand Bend. Click to view
pictures of the boat
Click to watch video. All sorts of stuff.
Perfect beginner boat. I am looking to get a bigger one.
Will consider trades for items. Page 6

The Larder
Stuffed Zucchini Boats
Ingredients:
4 medium-sized. zucchinis
1 cup rice
1 lb. ground beef or sweet Italian sausage
1 onion, diced
1 or 2 green pepper, diced (according to taste)
2 cups tomato sauce
2 tsp. sugar
Grated Mozzarella cheese
Salt & pepper to taste
Directions
Cut zucchini in half and cut out center. Cut center up in small pieces and put pieces aside.
Cook 1 cup rice; set aside. Brown ground beef or sweet Italian sausage. Drain grease. Add onion
and green peppers, and brown. Add rice and chopped zucchini and 2 cups Hunt’s tomato sauce.
Salt and pepper to taste. Add 2 teaspoons of sugar (to cut acid in tomatoes). Cook for 10 minutes.
Line your baking dish with tomato sauce. Put zucchini “boat” in dish. Fill with stuffing. Excess
stuffing can be put around boat. Bake at 350 degrees for 30-45 minutes. Wrap the boats in tinfoil
for later re-heating. Remove from oven—wrap the boats in tinfoil for later re-heating.; Sprinkle with
grated Mozzarella cheese on top. Microwave, for a few minutes until cheese is melted. Serve with
a salad.
(serves 4)
(Make ahead)
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Greetings
Happy Civic
Holiday
August 4
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