Epirbs - got one?

[RufusM]

With the price of GPS Epirbs coming down and judging by recent posts, more and more people carrying a liferaft - do you have an epirb and are you happy with it?

If you haven't used it then I guess you don't know for sure - but does owning it make you feel safe?? ...and are you happy with the purchase (no buyers remorse??) /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif

Do you like how it feels in your Grab Bag?

 

[awol]

I'm not sure what you are after. My EPIRB like my liferaft, flares, lifejackets, horse-shoe buoys, 2nd and 3rd anchors, fire extinguishers, etc. are expensive sops to my conscience that I never want to use. I sometimes worry that I have no way, other than setting them off, of knowing that some of them work and I'm not sure that if and when the merde happens that I'll remember to grab them all.
Best that can be said is that they give me something to talk about during the safety brief to new crew and an opportunity to gauge how information, in general, is received.

 

[MapisM]

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does owning it make you feel safe??

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Absolutely.
After years of boating, firing the epirb is the only action swmbo could handle, in case I'd fall overboard...

 

[snowleopard]

So where's the box for 'I've got a Tron and it's crap'

 

[tcm]

i have the mcmurdo fastfind but can't say it's "great" - it's a few hundred quid of orange do-nothing plastic, untill iuse it whichi likely won't, ever...

 

[RufusM]

awol - the purpose of the post was to see how important people rate these things - would they buy one, would they not? ......and too see which was the most popular.

 

[LymingtonPugwash]

You ask about 'buyers remorse' after having purchased one? Strangely enough, I never had a moment of buyers remorse when I bought it, or for the first few months when, perversely, I rather looked forward to finding out how effectively it would work! /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif
My buyers remorse has set in when a few years later, it's just sat there and not been used! Now I wish that I had held on until the latest cat 1 or 2 where on the market, instead I have an all but obsolete piece of expensive equip, less than 5 years old!.....

Well, there's my whinge for the day..... better get back into that cold shower and rip up a few more £50 notes! /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[bedouin]

One of the problems with EPIRBS is that the battery life means that they almost have an in-built obselence - the battery on my EPIRB is getting towards the end of its service life and it will probably turn out that it is more cost effective to buy a new EPIRB than to replace the battery /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif