Vancouver Club Night: Mid-Pacific Man Overboard - A First Hand Experience

As bluewater sailors, we are all dreamers… but sometimes it’s good to ‘get serious’ as offshore sailing is, after all, a serious business.

Based on a recent traumatic first-hand experience from competing in the world’s longest ocean race, Tristan Perry’s seminar serves to educate fellow boaters to be more prepared for one of the worst catastrophes at sea any sailor can imagine, a man overboard (MOB) incident.

Through critical analysis of MOB recovery video, live demonstrations of rescue equipment, teachings on search and rescue strategy and disaster planning, boaters will be taught how to act more proficiently with clarity and confidence when disaster strikes on the water!

Tristan understands short-handed sailing and will be targeting his seminar to our BCA crowd. He’s a passionate offshore sailor and accomplished Canadian yachtsman at the young age of 22. Raised as a liveaboard, he has logged over 30,000 racing miles, 5,000 of which sailed solo. Tristan is an experienced cruiser having sailed his 33-foot yacht through the Great Lakes and to south into the Caribbean. He has made multiple ocean crossings and was the onboard media crew member on a round the world yacht race in 2014. His company, Portside Marine Group, based in Vancouver offers yacht management solutions and marine media production worldwide.