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PFDs
On 2/20/2011 10:51 AM, slide wrote:
On 2/19/2011 10:30 AM, CaveLamb wrote: slide wrote: Before you go further in this, though, I strongly suggest you try retrieving someone from the ocean as if it were a MOB drill. Getting someone on deck from most boats with significant freeboard is MUCH more difficult than most people envision. We practice all the time, slide. But my boat has a sugar scoop stern with a drop down stern ladder. Retrieving hats is harder... Sugar scoop would make it MUCH easier. If you turn it around, you need so ask why anyone would NOT wear a PFD. Comfort and style would be the only reasons. Frex, when we sailed (and will again) we tend to go naked if it's warm enough. I had a sugar scoop transom on my old Parker. Not only did it make it easier to board the boat from the water but it allowed a place for the water to run out of the boat when I took on the ocassional greenie over the bow. Some naysayers poo pooed the transom arrangement but the good folks at Parker boats informed me that it was a safety feature. |
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