A powerful video on PFD usage

The Washington Boater Card program can be taken online. It has some mandatory videos that you must watch before you can proceed to the next question or chapter test. Although I didn't need the card (I'm aged out), I took the course anyway. I'm fairly certain I could have passed the final test without going through the classroom part of the course, but the interim videos were the most important and lasting information. It was people relating the little accidents, some alcohol related and some just silly, that ended up as fatalities. No PFD was about 95% of the incidents. It made the "inconvenience" of wearing a PFD disappear.

When I took the CG aux. test at Friday Harbor last year, the CG guy was a little surprised at the number of PFDs that I had on board. Later that year when at Lake Powell, I had my main one pop open (heat, humidity, age?). Nice to have a spare on board. Also nice to see how far (not far) I could swim with one on. Made me think a lot more about my kill switch.

Mark
 
Roger, Thanks for posting that. Should be required reading every season. The Westisle was from Alert Bay, I recognize the area there.

Mark, When you say your Kill switch, Is that the one on the OB control with the red stretchy cord?

Harvey
SleepyC :moon

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hardee":2eoleq3k said:
Mark, When you say your Kill switch, Is that the one on the OB control with the red stretchy cord?
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Harvey,

Yes. I use it when I've got my 2.5 hp on my aluminum kicker on Hood Canal, but not when at the helm of the CD 16 even when solo. I never leave the helm at more than idle, and even then I treat going into the cockpit like I'm going on a space walk. I generally go to neutral and come to a stop if I go into the cockpit. Still, the sight of the boat motoring away while I bob in my PFD is something that I have imagined. Of course the series of events that would lead up to that happening is something that we never imagine.

Mark
 
Thanks Mark. Some where (here and other places on the net) I have seen a "Kill Switch" that is 2 part, one is wired into the engine switches and the other part is on a pendant or watch band and kills the engine when a certain distance is reached.

It is called MOB+ by Fell Marine. Here is the link:

https://buy.fellmarine.com/mob-xfob-multi.html

Harvey
SleepyC:moon

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