Links
Directly Pudgy-related:
Adrian Flanagan: Alpha Global Expedition, Royal Southern Yacht Club
Maine Public Broadcasting Network, Emmy award winning small boats feature
Just interesting:
Magazines that have done articles on the Pudgy:
Boating Safety:
Yachting World, on inflatable life rafts
Answers.com, on inflatable life rafts versus lifeboats: The [Fastnet] inquiry board noted that “life rafts clearly failed to provide the safe refuge which many crews expected.”...Your chances of survival on a raft on the open ocean are greater if you can sail or at least steer it in the right direction. Waiting passively to be rescued in a helplessly drifting life raft is a prime cause of despair and hopelessness. According to Michael Stadler, a German professor of psychology and a small-boat sailor, even the most desperate situation is bear-able—even for someone on their own—provided they have some sense of controlling their position and environment."
USCG Boating Safety site, on inflatable life rafts
Latitude 38, on inflatable life rafts
Wikipedia (shipboard lifeboats)
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