What was expected to be an unexciting day turned out to be anything but, for the wrong reasons
We idled through the morning with a leisurely breakfast and eventually got around to making ready to pop into town to explore
The yacht opposite us were exiting their berth when a sudden gust blew them into the yacht astern of us. Unfortunately, the lady on deck got her hand caught up on something on the collision resulting in a badly lacerated, crushed and broken middle finger
There was an instant reaction from the surrounding boats to assist them back alongside.
Maire dialled 999 and got an ambulance on its way whilst Jane grabbed anything that might be needed as at first we thought the injury, bad enough though it was, was more serious.
As it turned out, there wasn't much to be done by way of first aid other than keep the injured hand raised. The injured lady had already applied pressure to the base of her finger which was keeping the bleeding down and the badly broken finger was far too painful to apply a dressing to
The ambulance arrived impressively quickly and I was mightily relieved to hand over to the professionals
The couple were soon off to hospital and everyone went back to what they'd been doing. The speedy reaction of the boat crews, marina staff and emergency services was commendable as was the control and calm way the couple themselves handled the situation
The Pagan crew decided to set to with buckets of cold water and our deck scrubber to clean up the blood in their cockpit before we resumed our expedition ashore. We didn't know how long it would be before they were back aboard and we figured it would be easy to clean up the fresh blood and a nightmare to remove it once it had dried. It did indeed only take a few minutes
Finally, off we went for a bit of an explore around East Cowes, a cup of coffee and to do some shopping.
The weather wasn't great, fully justifying our decision to stay put for a few days
Back aboard, we dined on sausage and maah with baked beans and had a drink or two before retiring fairly early
We idled through the morning with a leisurely breakfast and eventually got around to making ready to pop into town to explore
The yacht opposite us were exiting their berth when a sudden gust blew them into the yacht astern of us. Unfortunately, the lady on deck got her hand caught up on something on the collision resulting in a badly lacerated, crushed and broken middle finger
There was an instant reaction from the surrounding boats to assist them back alongside.
Maire dialled 999 and got an ambulance on its way whilst Jane grabbed anything that might be needed as at first we thought the injury, bad enough though it was, was more serious.
As it turned out, there wasn't much to be done by way of first aid other than keep the injured hand raised. The injured lady had already applied pressure to the base of her finger which was keeping the bleeding down and the badly broken finger was far too painful to apply a dressing to
The ambulance arrived impressively quickly and I was mightily relieved to hand over to the professionals
The couple were soon off to hospital and everyone went back to what they'd been doing. The speedy reaction of the boat crews, marina staff and emergency services was commendable as was the control and calm way the couple themselves handled the situation
The Pagan crew decided to set to with buckets of cold water and our deck scrubber to clean up the blood in their cockpit before we resumed our expedition ashore. We didn't know how long it would be before they were back aboard and we figured it would be easy to clean up the fresh blood and a nightmare to remove it once it had dried. It did indeed only take a few minutes
Finally, off we went for a bit of an explore around East Cowes, a cup of coffee and to do some shopping.
The weather wasn't great, fully justifying our decision to stay put for a few days
Back aboard, we dined on sausage and maah with baked beans and had a drink or two before retiring fairly early
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