Starboard bow buried and I went for a slide down the tramp. My right arm went under the starboard hiking strap up to my armpit. Fortunately, the plastic washer holding the knot under the tramp broke and the hiking strap let go. Otherwise I think my arm would have stayed with the boat. As it was, I just got a really dandy bruise all around that armpit.

I know someone who had to have stitches in his butt when he came down very heavily on the corner casting of a Hobie 16 <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" />

Gareth

My daughter has the bruise on her inner leg after a nose dive didn't capsize just dead stop.and she went into side stay
But the other story is that when going wild thing,the crew sitting low with the hand on the deck if the hand slides forward it has been known to slice the hand open (the webbing between the fingers )on the side stays in a volient nosedive pitchpole
Regards Richard

Took a dogbone on the cheek this weekend at GYC, luckily was wearing my sunglasses which protected my eyes, but had to explain the bruise on my cheek quite a few times this week (especially to my students!).

my crew at MW was crawling under the boom on a tack and I kicked him forward a little (not a lot of room and I hate being crowded at the back) and he hit his forehead on the rotator!

That will learn him!

nah, didn't work out too well because we had to actually chill for a few minutes so I could convince him he wasn't bleeding <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" />

<img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" /> So, what did you tell them!

Domestic incident! <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" /> just kidding...But there is nothing like a few war stories to keep students engaged!

rogue breeze catches boat under big bridge...launched 97lb Girlfriend onto the main... prevented the dump by rounding up fast, but boat fell hard, nearly launching GF into the drink screaming.

Apart from the emotional wounds, just the usual shroud rashes...

She married me anyway, but wont allow me to sail fast with her anymore...

Hobie 20, Miami Key Largo, beam reach doing 20 and we stuff it. I was crew and went bare foot skiing whie still attaced to the hook, Tom, skipper, slid forward on his bare feet until he hit the shroud at the deck level. I continued skiing and pulled the boat over as I flew around to the leeward side.
His foot has never been the same and he now wears shoes.

crew had his knee impaled on the mast ration spanner. The spanner lodged under his kneecap and he had to be assisted to pull the leg free

I remember Olympian Mitch Booth had to undergo surgery for a lacerated kidney/severe back injury after slamming into a raised centreboard.

h-18 went over, i put my hand out to brace against hitting the shroud. hand and body ended up out board of the shroud. sliding down the shroud. the friction "burned" a slice across my the palm of my hand. not a lot of blood. had treat it as if was a burn "welts" pain for weeks.

Ok, these stories aren't encouraging for me to get back into cat sailing.

Catsailors are NOT pansies <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/ooo.gif" alt="" /> <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" /> We get banged up. <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" /> I broke my wrist this summer and thought I was just bruised <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" /> BUT flying on a screaming reach or chute in a blow makes it worth it (GRIN)!!!!!

Doug

Seems to me that there were/are a lot of catsailors who take serious risks by NOT using chicken lines. BAD on yer! Cost? Next to nothing but prevents most pitchpoles.

some boats don't lend themselves to chicken lines though.
hard to rig one on my boat because if you run even a line to the transom it isn't far enough back. If I am at the transom and am hooked to a chicken line tied there then when the bow dives I just get ground into the hull and I go over.

Two months ago my son & I pitchpoled my H16. He was traped out & got the bungy sling around the forestay. I went forward striking my left knee on the base of the mast,thought I broke my kneecap. He was laughing so hard it got me laughing even though I could bearly move my left leg. We pitched so fast I had no time to respond. In retrospect it was funny, inspite of the pain we both laughed
about it & still think it was one of the funniest sailing experinces we've had.

They do make it sound as though sailing has gotten more extreme in recent years. Some people seem to think the "danger" aspect will draw more converts to catamarans --especially young people. I guess time will tell. <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif" alt="" />

I know it sure doesn't turn on most women.

Anyway, I think injuries are the exception rather than the norm -- sort of like car accidents. It's just that accidents make more interesting reading. <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" />

How do you rig this?