jon and michie
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Yachthavens marina's have pontoon ladders with life rings and activation alarms
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Seastoke
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Ok you are on board you and wife and another couple you are showing couple how to anchor. The other woman goes overboard hubby dives in to help , tide is taking them both away fast no life jackets you have 40m of chain out . As the captain of the vessel wat do you do.
PaulRainbow
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On our boat, no-one goes on deck to anchor, deal with lines etc, without a life jacket.
jon and michie
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correct PPE is the last line of defence the hierarchy - avoid - eliminate - reduce the hazard - This is sounding like I am at work Lol
Seastoke
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Strange update , I saw the guy who was doing the training ,go out on his own boat and he and his lady both had life jackets on . I give up
Elessar
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Call a mayday whilst figuring a solution. Maybe the dinghy if it launches quickly. Where will you find a ride running where you need 40m of chain though sounds very hypothetical. If they’ve not gone far thrown a horseshoe with a floating line.
julians
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would never happen where I boat (no tides, warm seas etc, you can guess where I boat?) , so not a scenario I need to worry about - which is probably one reason why lifejacket wearing is infrequent where I am
Offshore57
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Our marina recently replaced all the old escape ladders with new ones, bright yellow with orange light at night....although I suspect if someone falls in, they are at the furthest possible distance from one and unable to locate it from water level between boats etc....Murphys Law and all that.
Hurricane
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You mean this kind of thing.
Not a life jacket in sight.
Not quite where you boat but close - Menorca
Not in the English Channel either
oldgit
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We all have our own curious ideas about safety boating.
All my L/Js are auto with harness.
With the grandkids aboard always teach by example and wear my L/J regardless of location or duration of trip.
SWMBO always wears her jacket regardless.
Usually ask non boaty guests as to their preference.
Small boaty guests get a bouyancy aid wether they want one or not. We have a stock of about 6 or 7 aboard and these are frequently borrowed by other club boats.
For me on my tod beyond Sheerness a life jacket is a must.
Recently replaced a lifejacket for small crewmember, it came complete with a survival times vs water temps placard.
A few days later a young lad jumped off the road bridge just above our moorings , the flood tide would have taken him past my boat as I was busy below.
With the water temps at the moment he would have been unconscious in about 20 mins.
Recovered a few days later a couple of miles upstream.
Have helped to smartly retrieve the odd small person who has taken a tumble off various boats in the past and have also assisted in recovery of a drowning , plus our moorings are not infrequently the recovery point for folk who have ended up in the tidal Medway for whatever reason..
It all helps to keep in the back of your mind what can go wrong and to try and avoid complacency.
All my L/Js are auto with harness.
With the grandkids aboard always teach by example and wear my L/J regardless of location or duration of trip.
SWMBO always wears her jacket regardless.
Usually ask non boaty guests as to their preference.
Small boaty guests get a bouyancy aid wether they want one or not. We have a stock of about 6 or 7 aboard and these are frequently borrowed by other club boats.
For me on my tod beyond Sheerness a life jacket is a must.
Recently replaced a lifejacket for small crewmember, it came complete with a survival times vs water temps placard.
A few days later a young lad jumped off the road bridge just above our moorings , the flood tide would have taken him past my boat as I was busy below.
With the water temps at the moment he would have been unconscious in about 20 mins.
Recovered a few days later a couple of miles upstream.
Have helped to smartly retrieve the odd small person who has taken a tumble off various boats in the past and have also assisted in recovery of a drowning , plus our moorings are not infrequently the recovery point for folk who have ended up in the tidal Medway for whatever reason..
It all helps to keep in the back of your mind what can go wrong and to try and avoid complacency.
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jon and michie
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Could be us Brits fleeing the U.K for a better life Lol
Elessar
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Premier marinas? They are the best ladders I’ve found.
Some marinas have no ladders or ones that have to be deployed from the land.
I’ve been in a marina on the Thames where there were no ladders and there was a self help scheme, where boat owners with a boarding ladder that could be deployed from in the water tied a red ribbon to the ladder.
I know my own ladder saved the owner of a sea school who knew my boat. He fell in from another boat in February in an Itchen marina with no ladders. He swam to my boat and got himself out. He was alone and was not wearing a life jacket. If I was the RNLI I’d call that a life saved.
Chris H
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Only thing I’ve seen wearing a life jacket in the med……..is a dog.
Offshore57
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Yep...Southsea
petem
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Horses for course. Single handed or a windy day in Winter in the Solent or at night when there's nobody about I would wear one.
Daytime boating in the Med, never bothered. Nor does anyone else.
Daytime boating in the Med, never bothered. Nor does anyone else.
petem
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I wonder how many motor boaters die in the UK each year because they're not wearing a life jacket?
jon and michie
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so these guys on a superyacht sinking yet I cant see 1 lifejacket being donned - this is shocking in terms of the crew and captain
finestgreen
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Would I be wrong (as well as thread-drifting) to say it also seems quite premature? I've always been taught to wait until you're stepping up from the boat to the liferaft - perhaps bigger boats are different?
jon and michie
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Definiteley different Captain and crew should have mustered all the passengers and supplied them with lifejackets also no alarms going off although power could be out by now
Seastoke
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Is that for 2
