Which idiot had the idea....

[snowleopard]

...of packing liferafts in smooth rounded plastic containers? You run a severe risk of dropping them while trying to load them on/off the boat and lifting them overboard when you're cold and wet could be impossible. Why aren't they provided with some way of getting a grip on them?

 

[JREdginton]

Because the reduction in transport related damage and subsequent services would reduce the 'brother in laws' income? /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[Gin]

Not only are they cumbersome without handles but bloody impossible to retrieve and open when the lanyard pull fails to inflate them automatically!!!!!!!!

 

[Fr J Hackett]

My Avon has recessed grips in the case, still heavy though. But like the frightened man with a bucket I am sure under the right circumstances it will be as light as a feather.

 

[mikefleetwood]

I was just reading the instructions on Fisherman's liferaft (in his trailer this morning) - there is a printed panel with 6 illustrated steps. Step 2 says throw it in the sea - how are you supposed to read steps 3-6?

 

[peterb]

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Step 2 says throw it in the sea - how are you supposed to read steps 3-6?

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<u>Before</u> you need to use it? Just like fire extinguishers and flares?

 

[BlueSkyNick]

The Plastimo canister raft I bought for the last boat had two rope handles each covered in a plastic tube, so easy enough to carry.

The problem was that we carried it from the car to the garage upside down, and the tap holding the two halves together coulndt take the weight and the canister opened up /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif

 

[thailand69]

I too have struggled with a 6 man liferaft in a hard case on a few occassions (not mine! - I just get roped in for moving the b#gger!)...........the "best" way I have found for transporting to and from the boat (especially on a drying mooring and lugging accross the beach - never been brave enuf to manhandle it into a floating dinghy!) is tying rope around it in a + pattern. and resting a lot /forums/images/graemlins/ooo.gif

FOOKIN HELL /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif

When typing this I recall a conversaation I has this afternoon with the owner of the said liferaft.

We were discussing clearing out his garage and what stuff he could get rid off......I saw a trolley and suggested may not need this. The answer was that he had had it for years and although it was used only now and again for transporting bags of sand and concrete blocks, it was very useful for that purpose.........and we BOTH wondered what else it could be used for, before the conversation drifted off........

How many times have I / we struggled with that fookin liferaft by hand /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif

Live <u>and</u> learn??? /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif