We drove down to Hamble to spend an action packed day learning how to survive should we ever need to abandon ship. It is an RYA course so no critics of the course provider but it was a confused set of messages: never leave your boat - unless it's below the waterline or on fire, there was no focus on how to survive on a boat.

I was hoping for jury rigs, surviving on an upturned hull, surviving in big seas. But the course focused on how a large crew should use a liferaft. Ultimately tailored around the famous Fastnet 1974 catastrophe, but how do a crew of two perform a man over board scenario, survive in a liferaft. How are multihulls different for survival, should we open the hull hatch or leave it closed to keep the trapped air locked in.