articfriends

When I had my Baja 272, i wore a 100mph rated life jacket most the time IF I was gonna drive real fast, sometimes doing speed runs I also wore a helmet, you get funny looks though! I spun the boat out once at high speed and it coulda ended badly, only had tether on, bow hooked at high speed, went sideways, managed to twitch the wheel as I was partially ejected, I managed to hold onto the steering wheel, pulled my left shoulder out of its socket, feet touched water as I was tossed partly out, tether didnt pull out of switch until I was slammed back into the boat on the floor. I wore a lifejacket ALOT MORE after that. When my wife saw me putting it on, she knew we were gonna be racing someone. I started keeping it behind me on my seat with it spread apart were I could slip my arms into it IF I wasn't wearing one, I made sure there were a couple in cockpit along with 2 throwables in case we ended up in the water with hope you could grab one vs drowning assuming you weren't knocked out.