Testing Coby's overboard system

Practiced with safety equipment with Scott and Larry as crew. Sailing upriver at about four knots,  I lowered myself into the Columbia.  Attached to the boat by my safety harness and tether, I slid back on the jack-line that runs on the outside of the boat to the stern where I was dragged by my tether until I caught hold of the rope ladder, and climbed up aboard. It all went swimmingly!

I also tested my backup to the backup safety system -- two hundred feet of floating line knotted every eighteen inches, with a little buoy on the end, that I let snake out behind the boat. Tried pulling myself back up in while I was in the water -- very easy self-rescue. We likes it!