Latest Life Saving Gadget

We have a lot of safety equipment on board, but this latest addition is just the ticket. A lot of sea-farers worry about man overboard situations.


We struggle a lot more with peg-overboard and flip-flop-overboard traumas. So we bought this:

Quite excitingly, we had to deploy it within 24 hours when the Galley Slave lost a flip-flop overboard whilst getting off the boat one evening. A highly efficient and successful mission with our new flourescent pink fishing net meant that she was soon re-united with her footwear. (lucky that, else the Skipper would probably have had to have gone out and bought her 2 or 3 more pairs to make up).