Freebooter demonstrate their Sea-Xit - MOB Recovery . 31/05/2013
ARC Portugal 2013 participants Steven and Annemarie Westwood, owners of the Moody 425 Freebooter were more than happy to demonstrate their homemade MOB device at Mayflower Marina on Thursday afternoon during their obligatory safety inspection prior to the rally. Rob Gaffney, chief safety inspector at World Cruising was intrigued to discover a piece of safety equipment he had not come across previously. Steven Westwood explained he had designed the equipment himself with the help from a sail maker after he and his wife Annemarie had encountered an extraordinary event that took place whilst sailing their boat in the Channel Islands a few years ago. They had come across the unconscious body of a diver just off Guernsey, and on attempting to haul him out of the water to...
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