Are lifebuoys useful?

[KellysEye]

>Perhaps, but that doesn't address the issue of "what safety equipment"?

For onshore check the RYA site for offshore, such as the Azores, these are the requirements: http://www.rorc.org/downloads/image...ations/English_Offshore_Checklist_2016_V2.pdf it's not just equipment.

 

[Triassic]

re, such as the Azores, these are the requirements: http://www.rorc.org/downloads/image...ations/English_Offshore_Checklist_2016_V2.pdf it's not just equipment.

Those are offshore racing regulations. Tell me Mr. KellysEye. Does your road car have a roll cage, plumbed in fire extinguishers, an external ignition cut off, four point harnesses etc etc or are you reckless enough to drive to Tesco's without these items of essential life saving equipment?

 

[ashtead]

We had one on last boat which was in shiny pristine condition when we sold her as we took it in at end of trips but never had chance to try out during 10 years plus ownership. Haven't bothered for new boat having invested in a device in box or two from jonbuoy sea safety but I do feel I should have one if only as a place to show boat name so on the to do list .

 

[GrahamM376]

I think the point being made was that they are singlehanded with no-one left on board to deploy anything.

But they might deploy it for someone who has fallen off another boat.

 

[Tranona]

>Perhaps, but that doesn't address the issue of "what safety equipment"?

For onshore check the RYA site for offshore, such as the Azores, these are the requirements: http://www.rorc.org/downloads/image...ations/English_Offshore_Checklist_2016_V2.pdf it's not just equipment.

You said a skipper owed a duty of care so you post a list of equipment required by an organisation which is a completely different issue. That is not law. There are any number of lists of equipment but none apply to leisure boats under 13m.

If you are going to make statements about skipper's responsibilities in a legal sense then you must explain what law determines what that is to be and examples of how the courts have used that law.

 

[doug748]

But they might deploy it for someone who has fallen off another boat.

Aye.

As Uricanejack says, it would be a devil to want one and not have it.

Great thing about lifebuoys is that almost everybody knows what they are and what to do with them. They can be used by passers by and visiting great aunts. People fall off in the river, on the startline and in the marina just as efficiently as the high seas.

Here is a YouTube rescue: