Lifejackets

[rickp]

So during our YM exam, we stopped for dinner (a lovely stew by Wiggo - he has many talents /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif) on the HM pontoons in Cowes. Just as we'd finished, I hear a call from the pontoon and we see a guy in the water, hanging on despite the current. The examiner and I pull him out and we offer to let him warm up on our boat - which was politely declined.

He'd been cleaning his boat and fenders and had done what I've nearly done myself so many times - followed the boat as it moved away from him....

So would you wear a lifejacket when cleaning the boat down in a tidal river? I haven't done in the past - but would certainly consider it in the future. I was disappointed to see the same guy rowing his inflatable less than an hour later without a lifejacket. /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif

Talking of which - our examiner had a stormy - a combined waterproof and lifejacket which looked quite neat...

Rick

 

[Solitaire]

Well done! As we speak Jon is talking to Rob and getting a debrief.

 

[DAKA]

Its a good point, while washing the boat down probably not .

Two years ago, the River I moor on was in flood and I put a life jacket on just to check the mooring lines but I felt like a plonker not diligent which I guess is the biggest problem.

 

[duncan]

indeed I certainly feel more comfortable with the belt and braces approach to an obvious threat but am very poor with the mundane - where of course the real threats probably lie for most of us.

roping myself up to go down the pontoon last December in the storm - big tick

lifejacket in the tender? unlikely I am afraid.

 

[Wiggo]

Ah, now I'm pretty good with the tender, but it does go like stink. And I wear the killcord (and insist the kids do, too).

 

[duncan]

...........that is not a tender! /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

oh and we have uprated the water defenses now so be warned.

 

[Wiggo]

You've not seen the new one...