simonbertie
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any of you lucky livaboards got the survival kit /bottles etc that you dont want or use.I could swop some cash for it.
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tinker rib survival kit
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trouville
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i would be careful on saving, i have a plastimo 6 place lifraft, i used to pack and check it every year (change food and water)two years ago i left it in my dingy prior to bringing it ashore, i had go away for a couple of days, it rained and rained when i got back the dingy was full to of water as the raft was roped down it was under water.
after the weekend i took it ashore it looked normal but when i checked closly some fittings were unstuck.i took it to an agent, we found all the seams coming unstuck as well,i had decided to buy a smaller one,so we inflated it and it fell apart,ive kept it in a shead just to show anyone who dident blieve me, we could only imagin that its submersion caused the seems to unglue and that on a liferaft!!!
so dont just take everything aboard in hope check thourghly, im still shocked
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after the weekend i took it ashore it looked normal but when i checked closly some fittings were unstuck.i took it to an agent, we found all the seams coming unstuck as well,i had decided to buy a smaller one,so we inflated it and it fell apart,ive kept it in a shead just to show anyone who dident blieve me, we could only imagin that its submersion caused the seems to unglue and that on a liferaft!!!
so dont just take everything aboard in hope check thourghly, im still shocked
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ChrisE
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I'd ask you to reconsider your request. I used to liveaboard, well for a year, and I had a tinker survival set and I now have a liferaft.
Unless the design has changed, the bottles are attached to the transom and are inflated in emergencies via turning on the valve to inflate the tubes. I used the tinker as my tender as well and realised that I couldn't tell if someone had turned on the valve when the tinker was left unattended. So, just in case, I hired a liferaft as well and forgot about using the tinker as our primary liferaft.
I used to check the bottles by opening the valve for a second before we set off on an offshore leg. Six months on, I cracked the valve and there was no gas in either bottle.
All of which led me ot the conclusion that an inflatable tender cannot double up for a liferaft.
Your choice but, as the poster above said, life saving equipment is the last place to look for economies when equipping a boat.
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Unless the design has changed, the bottles are attached to the transom and are inflated in emergencies via turning on the valve to inflate the tubes. I used the tinker as my tender as well and realised that I couldn't tell if someone had turned on the valve when the tinker was left unattended. So, just in case, I hired a liferaft as well and forgot about using the tinker as our primary liferaft.
I used to check the bottles by opening the valve for a second before we set off on an offshore leg. Six months on, I cracked the valve and there was no gas in either bottle.
All of which led me ot the conclusion that an inflatable tender cannot double up for a liferaft.
Your choice but, as the poster above said, life saving equipment is the last place to look for economies when equipping a boat.
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charles_reed
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I hope
you let them know at Lorient. If nothing else they'd be interested in protecting their reputation.
I certainly wouldn't expect a liferaft to dissolve in water. In fact I'd consider it unfit for purpose which makes ant company trading and registered in the EU liable to some hefty fines.
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you let them know at Lorient. If nothing else they'd be interested in protecting their reputation.
I certainly wouldn't expect a liferaft to dissolve in water. In fact I'd consider it unfit for purpose which makes ant company trading and registered in the EU liable to some hefty fines.
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trouville
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i agree, i not sure you imagin the shock when,for so long you hoped you had security of a liferaft.
As with many boating things the cost of checking the raft is prohibitive, for the last 5 years i opened a checked everything yearly,changing food and water, sometimes i did myself but mostly with someone that sold and did the control for a living,now retired.Origanaly i paid, later not, so there is no garentee,but like a parashoot i was very sure all was done properly.
The raft was always in its plastic container.The point is that the raft itsself was in water for 6 days (given the rain started as i left) when we looked at it it looked alright,only when we found a loose glued fitting (ill have to go and look at it again)i decided to inflate it. It was old but well looked after,i decided to buy a new one as the the center was closing i could buy a new one for half price, i decided to try the old one, as i said it was a shock life rafts should never disolve in water.
i always wonderd how i would get into my raft, and always rather hoped if i had to it would be during a calm passage after hitting somthing,rather than in a storm due to failure , this is to long----but just to say the raft should at least inflate and be ready to use at once--- getting in is somthing that should be tried in a good swell---if the rafts falling apart as mine was losing air quickly what would you do???and having had my zodiac fly off the water in a reall storm, i always wonderd if a liferart was better
in fact i always thought i would use my unsinkable and very heavy dingy-a boston
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As with many boating things the cost of checking the raft is prohibitive, for the last 5 years i opened a checked everything yearly,changing food and water, sometimes i did myself but mostly with someone that sold and did the control for a living,now retired.Origanaly i paid, later not, so there is no garentee,but like a parashoot i was very sure all was done properly.
The raft was always in its plastic container.The point is that the raft itsself was in water for 6 days (given the rain started as i left) when we looked at it it looked alright,only when we found a loose glued fitting (ill have to go and look at it again)i decided to inflate it. It was old but well looked after,i decided to buy a new one as the the center was closing i could buy a new one for half price, i decided to try the old one, as i said it was a shock life rafts should never disolve in water.
i always wonderd how i would get into my raft, and always rather hoped if i had to it would be during a calm passage after hitting somthing,rather than in a storm due to failure , this is to long----but just to say the raft should at least inflate and be ready to use at once--- getting in is somthing that should be tried in a good swell---if the rafts falling apart as mine was losing air quickly what would you do???and having had my zodiac fly off the water in a reall storm, i always wonderd if a liferart was better
in fact i always thought i would use my unsinkable and very heavy dingy-a boston
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