Saturday 14 June
To follow up on our Safety at Sea course, we did our RYA Sea Survival course on Saturday.
We were going to sail on Friday from Lymington to the Hamble course, but thunderstorms were forecast so we went to Lymington Lido instead.
The Lymington salt water baths were the first such public baths to be built in 1833 and are the oldest in the UK!
Cynthia Covey spearheaded the local campaign to stop the council selling the land to developers for flats in 2009. She died in 2023 but all Lido lovers should be eternally grateful for her determined and successful campaign.
We also tried out our new sunshade, it slots into either side of our boom and looks très chic!
Sea Survival is the ‘doom and gloom’ course of what happens, and what you can do to survive, when everything has gone wrong.
Some of the course is in the classroom and some is in the very warm local swimming pool.
It’s even hotter when you’re wearing oilies and a life jacket.
We practiced huddling together in the water and I discovered how hard it is to swim in a life jacket. But it certainly makes you float.
We had to right an upturned lifeboat and then try to get in unaided
Fortunately we all managed to do it!
I can’t say it was my most enjoyable day but there was some good information and advice.
The main takeaway:- don’t get in your life boat until your boat sinks – or is on fire!
Because we drove there and back we got to see the beautiful new foals in the New Forest.
