Boats are full of handholds and safety features designed to keep you from falling overboard. When moving around a boat that is underway, one hand should always be grabbing onto something on the boat. You can use your other hand to hold a drink, maintain balance, or whatever else, as long as one hand is always dedicated to hold the boat and staying on board.

In the 18th century, lots of ill-fated ships were sinking and getting lost at sea. Nobody knew why, but they did notice something: All of them were transporting bananas. Whether the ocean hates bananas or it was just a series of coincidences, boaters to this day prefer not to take the risk. Therefore, no bananas are allowed on Some Tuesday.

MOB is one of the worst things that can happen when underway. It's incredibly easy to lose sight of a person once they're in the water. A floating head is hard to spot among the waves. The most important thing to do if someone falls overboard is to keep a line of sight to them. If you are the first to see that someone has fallen overboard, physically point and look at them while screaming as loud as you can to alert everyone else on board. Keep physically pointing at them the whole time until they are secured back on the boat.

If you are not the first to see someone fall overboard and you are alerted by someone yelling, alert captain Steve immediately and throw something that floats to the person who fell overboard. There are multiple things you can throw to someone in the water including the Lifesling in the white bag attached to the aft railing the bright green danbuoy which is kept by the first aid kit in the gallery.

A fire is among the worst things that can happen on a boat. If a fire starts, even a small one, it needs to be treated extremely seriously. There are fire extinguishers throughout the cabin in the following locations:
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If you are unable to contain the fire, call in a Mayday on the VHF. Refer to the mayday section of this page.

Mayday is the international distress signal for life-threatening, extreme emergency situations. VHF channel 16 is the international distress frequency which is monitored by coast guards around the world for emergency communications. Calling "Mayday, Mayday, Mayday" on this channel will result in immediate emergency response from the coast guard, or other proper authority in your area. Refer to the EPIRB section of this page for instructions to use Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacon, another very important piece of emergency equipment.

Personal Flotation Devices (PFDs, aka Life Jackets) are located in the forward cockpit lazarette (aka under the benches on the bow.)

The first aid kit on Some Tuesday is located in the galley, attached a to a cabinet on the aft, starboard side of the gallery. It should be plainly visible from almost anywhere in the gallery.

The Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacon (EPIRB) is an important piece of emergency equipment which, when activated, broadcasts an emergency signal and your location to first-responders, triggering a search & rescue response. The EPIRB on Some Tuesday is located next to the first aid kit on the starboard aft side of the gallery.

Sea sickness happens when your brain is perceiving mixed signals from your eyes and your inner ear. On a boat, you'll often feel the boat pitching and rolling with the waves, but you eyes perceive the boat to be stable. This can cause your brain to go sort of haywire and cause nausea, vomiting, sweating, and dizziness. This tends to get much worse when you are inside the cabin, particularly if you're below deck because the room appears to be stable but your inner ear can feel the movement of the boat.

Step 1 for preventing sea sickness is to stay above board as much as possible while the boat is underway. Maintaining a view of the horizon helps your brain sort out the conflicting signals that it's receiving from your body.

If staying above board doesn't prevent or fix your sea sickness, occupy yourself. Find something to do or ask Captain Steve for a job. Occupying your mind and hands with some sort of task does wonders for fixing sea sickness.

If you know that you get seasick, try preempting it by taking dramamine or some other motion sickness medicine before boarding.

The helm steps (the stairs that lead from the aft seating area to the helm) are notoriously slippery and hazardous. Please hold on to the railing and be extra careful when going up and down from the helm.