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Post by CorneliaGale on Sept 9, 2013 20:28:21 GMT -5
Wondering how many people use the lanyard attached to the kill switch on their boat. Reason on one of the forums I look at there is a thread about two guys going out of the inlet over the weekend and both were thrown out of the boat and one of them made it shore the other did not, the boat kept on going and had to be boarded to stop it. I know I don't use one on may boat, heck I don't have one. Thinking of installing one on mine after reading this. Just though it might be a interesting thread.
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Post by hotdog on Sept 9, 2013 22:05:38 GMT -5
I've never used the one on my boat. I know I should but I guess it's like those seat belts.
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Post by mwardncsu on Sept 9, 2013 22:24:10 GMT -5
This takes away the excuse for not using your kill switch - a wireless kill switch - you wear the transmitter and if you fall in the water it breaks the link and will kick the switch. Can have multiple transmitters for you and passengers - attach them to your lifejacket (oh yeah, probably not wearing that either...) or stick it in your pocket. www.autotether.com/ However it won't make you use it..... I have one and can't say when I turned it on last.... yeah, I know...... |
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Post by CorneliaGale on Sept 9, 2013 22:47:43 GMT -5
They were talking about a couple of those on the thread too. Its a shame that it takes things like this to make you think about what could happen.
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Post by mytoyzfishing on Sept 9, 2013 22:56:14 GMT -5
My pontoon does not have one. My bass boat on the other hand I use it everytime I'm at the wheel. Clipped right to my live jacket. I test it at the begining of the day everytime as well. Also use a hot foot. There was an articale I had read a while back that made me get one installed. A guy driving the boat had a medical emergency and went unconsiouse at the wheel. He bounced slightly from the seat when he hit a wake but but not enough to pull the switch. With a hot foot you drive it like a car no foot on the gas pedal no throtle. It saved him from slamming into a bridge piling going 60mph.
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Post by Brian on Sept 11, 2013 19:16:59 GMT -5
I always use one... If you get thrown from the boat for whatever reason without a kill switch, you either you get run over by your own boat when it circles around, or if it's cold and/or you are out of swimming range of land, you die of hypothermia while watching your boat go in circles around you.
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Post by Brian on Sept 11, 2013 19:18:37 GMT -5
I also keep a spare kill switch clip in the glove box and show it to my passengers and make sure they know how to use it if I end up in the water and they don't.
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Post by leeb on Sept 16, 2013 9:14:14 GMT -5
If I am crossing an inlet yes I wear it. If I am under way in rough seas I also wear it. Riding on Smith Mountain Lake....um no.
I do know of two people who have gone overboard on SML and their boat got away from them....one was driving a House Boat.
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Post by mytoyzfishing on Sept 17, 2013 21:56:25 GMT -5
I think its a little bit different with a lot of the CC's that a lot of guys on here use than say a bass boat like I use. There have been 3 occasions where the passenger in my bass boat has almost gotten ejected from the boat from not paying attention while running up or down lake. boats that sit lower to the water are going to be more at risk of getting ejected. Where a high rail CC if the dirver gets bounced off his seat or leaning post more than likely he might fall to the deck. If I get bounced out of my seat the likely hood of me going over is greater since I sit right at the rail and its only 18" above the seat
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Post by CorneliaGale on Sept 17, 2013 23:50:13 GMT -5
The boat over the weekend was a CC 20' range, they were going through a inlet and hit heavy seas and both of them got thrown out of the boat, the boat kept on going and one of them with the help of someone on a kayak made it to the shore, the other one didn't make it. I know the inlets are a lot more dangerous, but when you get caught off guard and hit a large wake there could be a chance of this happening on the lake. Some of the large boats on the lake leave a giant hole behind them when you go up the lake, I know I've taken waves over the front rail of my pontoon a few times on the lake.
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Post by mytoyzfishing on Sept 18, 2013 1:51:05 GMT -5
The boat over the weekend was a CC 20' range, they were going through a inlet and hit heavy seas and both of them got thrown out of the boat, the boat kept on going and one of them with the help of someone on a kayak made it to the shore, the other one didn't make it. I know the inlets are a lot more dangerous, but when you get caught off guard and hit a large wake there could be a chance of this happening on the lake. Some of the large boats on the lake leave a giant hole behind them when you go up the lake, I know I've taken waves over the front rail of my pontoon a few times on the lake. this made me think of the time I completly soaked my wife and mother-in-law. Took the wake of one of the large cabin cruisers and it sent a tidal wave over the front of the pontoon where they were sitting  the wake was so big that I got partially wet sitting towards the back of the pontoon which is 26' foot long. There's several boat accident video's on you youtube. One that always pops up is a bass boat that hit a wake and went air born throwing the driver and rendering him unconscious. Only thing that saved him and the boat of the other boat was his kills switch and life jacket. |
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Post by mytoyzfishing on Sept 30, 2013 9:09:27 GMT -5
Heres one of the video's this reminded me of
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Post by chefstriper on Oct 29, 2013 16:50:59 GMT -5
I always wear the kill switch when running and life jacket too. Only take jacket off when in seat fishing. My 80 year old father wears his life vest at all times. Even when loading boat in lift.
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the wake was so big that I got partially wet sitting towards the back of the pontoon which is 26' foot long.