RNLI Sea Check - How big is the Problem?

[Habebty]

I had a seacheck on my old boat at Ipswich - very useful and suggested several things I didn't even think of. So I booked a seacheck for my new boat when I got it back to Ipswich so that someone else would look over the new boat without the benefit of my rose tinted spectacles. The Ipswich area seachecker phoned me very promptly to make an appointment in fact several times, as was forced to postpone each appointment due to work etc. And never actually had this check done. In Short well worth doing and very courteous service.

I must make another appointment now i've had the boat two years!!!!

 

[Shorn100]

I find it amazing that so many people in your survey feel so confident in their boating skills that they feel they don't need to take advantage of a free service that could save their lives.

There's one thing I've learnt about this sport after 40 years of boating and that is I still don't know it all. If having a SEA Check means I may only learn just one piece of extra information that could save my life, my family's lives and my boat then surely it's worthwhile. What's the risk - it doesn't cost anything except for a cup of tea (although I put a few quid in the lifeboat box at the boat show).

Perhaps this explains why the RNLI rescue figures keep on getting bigger even though so many yotties think they are safe on the water.
Shorn

 

[BrendanS]

If there was a tick box for had a seacheck, but not recently, it might be different. Also, not everyone will read this thread.

 

[aitchw]

Don't read so much into the numbers selecting the first option. The addition of the emotive comments to the basic question is a bad idea as many people may simply not have had the check done for a variety of reasons and would not necessarily subscribe to the attitudes illustrated.