safety Lanyard

[scott resick]

It was probably supposed to be a demo video for fountain. As far as it getting posted it probably ended up on you tube after the hearings.

[Markonline]

For those curious, one of the passengers posted about what happened right here (post #99 etc.)

Most shocking part? The ladies are a mother and her daughter.....

[scott resick]

For those curious, one of the passengers posted about what happened right here (post #99 etc.)

Most shocking part? The ladies are a mother and her daughter.....

no way. Which ones which?

[AirTool]

Its interesting to watch that video one time through for each person. Start with the driver and work your way across to see the impact and then their behavior after.

Very tragic.

[pokesgrad02]

This was at Lake of the Ozarks I believe. Wakes on that lake on weekends are like being on the ocean. Numerous 40' + yatchs. I have several friends who have places there. Most will not get on a boat of less than 30' unless it is a tritoon. That lake is insane. Has strange things happen on it every year. I refuse to go with friends there.

[mpc]

Back to the topic of the safety lanyard, many cars have a chip in the key and as long as you are close to the car you can start it. Why not for boats. You walk away from the helm and the power is cut. At times that may be a bit inconvenient but safer. Let's face if the driver is walking about the boat power should be off.

[SkiTower]

now that's a cool idea. A wristband with a proximity sensor. I like that much better than a keypad.

[DealsGapCobra]

At times that may be a bit inconvenient but safer. Let's face if the driver is walking about the boat power should be off.

I love the idea but would rather not have it cut the power until I was outside of the boat. There have been many times when I have had to jump out of the seat to free a tow rope from the tower or some other obstruction or needed to move briefly to help with docking and don't feel the engine needed to be stopped. In fact, if I did, I would just wear the lanyard.

I remember years ago running down the Intercoastal in Ft. Lauderdale with my father and saw this man 'pop' out of a small V-8 Donzi (16-18') after he hit a wake at speed. We watched in fear as his boat ripped down the canal as we picked him up. Fortunately, the motor turned and it started making circles and hitting a seawall until it knocked out the motor. Thank God, no one was hurt.

[mpc]

[QUOTE=DealsGapCobra;202714]I love the idea but would rather not have it cut the power until I was outside of the boat. There have been many times when I have had to jump out of the seat to free a tow rope from the tower or some other obstruction or needed to move briefly to help with docking and don't feel the engine needed to be stopped. In fact, if I did, I would just wear the lanyard.

Makes good sense - Let's hope the Nautique design team are following this thread.

[DanielC]

There are some good thoughts and ideas expressed in this thread, but reality is the more you idiot proof something, you just find better idiots.

Parts left off any assembly cost nothing, and create no service problems.

[Zach@n3]

I agree watercraft should carry a difference license than a car. This would prevent lots of problems and actually educate someone on safety and operation. That sucks in that video. A friend of mine had a 65mph 19 foot Baja. The only time we would open that thing up was usually when it was just us or a few guys that knew what was going on in smooth water. We didn't wear life jackets but that thing would get scary rowdy at high speeds. If we wanted to travel at speeds in rough water it rarely went over 45mph and it was trimmed down with tabs down. That guy was probably trying to show off. I wouldn't wear a tether if I had one. Likely if the driver is thrown from the boat everyone else will be too and you will have big problems either way. I am usually the most active mover on the boat so being strapped in would be annoying.

Fast boats are fun for long runs but nobody on here has a life style that matches that. I prefer being low to the water and being able to do sports. If it's to rough out there are perfectly good sand bars and lake houses to relax at haha.

[surroundsound64]

I agree watercraft should carry a difference license than a car. This would prevent lots of problems and actually educate someone on safety and operation. That sucks in that video. A friend of mine had a 65mph 19 foot Baja. The only time we would open that thing up was usually when it was just us or a few guys that knew what was going on in smooth water. We didn't wear life jackets but that thing would get scary rowdy at high speeds. If we wanted to travel at speeds in rough water it rarely went over 45mph and it was trimmed down with tabs down. That guy was probably trying to show off. I wouldn't wear a tether if I had one. Likely if the driver is thrown from the boat everyone else will be too and you will have big problems either way. I am usually the most active mover on the boat so being strapped in would be annoying.

Fast boats are fun for long runs but nobody on here has a life style that matches that. I prefer being low to the water and being able to do sports. If it's to rough out there are perfectly good sand bars and lake houses to relax at haha.

Please not another government license.

[ES]

Back to the topic of the safety lanyard, many cars have a chip in the key and as long as you are close to the car you can start it. Why not for boats. You walk away from the helm and the power is cut. At times that may be a bit inconvenient but safer. Let's face if the driver is walking about the boat power should be off.

I love this idea...my riding mower has this, why not my next Nautique!

[scottb7]

I guess it is what it is. Obviously best thing would be if you could move around the boat while in neutral with engine running, but have to plug in or be sitting there to get into gear. I guess best thing would be to just clip the darn thing on and be safer. I try to like once a year. And then invariably I forget to unclip it and move away from helm and pull it out and kill the boat when I don't mean to.

[Markonline]

This thread did make me curious what the most common accidents actually are. Thankfully I stumbled upon the recreational boating statistics 2012 (yay....)

For comparison purposed, it gives the total number of registered boats at 12 million. Sadly, threre's no mention of the mean number of running hours per year per boat.

I found this to be the most helpfull table.



Sadly the report does not do a good job of giving comparitive statistics. Still there are a couple of interesting tidbits.


-There 5.4 deaths per 100000 registered boats compared to 15 for cars (remember, the average boater probably spends a lot more time in his car).

-Nearly a third of all deaths happen while fishing, but only few injuries.

-Aluminum boat seem to be involved in a high proportion of deaths (perhaps related to fishing).

-In 82% of deaths the operator had no or only informal training. Again, it does not point out what part of the population received training. Perhaps somebody could give a guesstimate?

-The report does seem to push lifevests, showing that only 1 in 6 drown while wearing a lifevests. This does raise the question of how many people actually wear a lifevest? Would 1 in 6 really be such a ridiculous number?


Oh, and you guys might be happy to hear that the number of accidents seems to be on a steady decline since 1997 (the year they seem to have started collecting these statitistics), in spite of growth in the total number of boats.


I hope this does not derail the thread, just thought some numbers might be helpfull.