Coolerman

If you look at the pic of the boat, the drive is trimmed much much too far in. Can it even be trimmed in any more? It's so sad to see this happen.

Elite Marine

I have been on the Chain for over 15 years. It is getting more crowded and there are definately more ignorant, arrogant boaters than ever before.

This is the third similar type of accident this year on the Chain. All three have been step bottom hulls (Sunsation, Elininator and Donzi) during daylight, two of which the drives were trimmed up for speed. All three accidents happened during high speed turns in areas that these manuevers aren't safe even if performed to perfection. None were caused by collision avoidance.

I agree with lanyards and wearing vests. I do a lot of speed runs in my 24 at 85+ MPH and always wear a lanyard and vest. I am also by myself, not turning with my drives trimmed up to the moon, and in a conventional Vee Bottom. I have a over one hundred hours of seat time in the boat and am not out to impress anyone. For a casual boat ride this is not practical or enjoyable, lets be honest.

Enough with the regulation, licensing and all the safety gear talk. People need to be more responsible, drive to their ability and pay more attention to what they are doing and where. Too many innocent people, just wanting to go for a boat ride are getting hurt due to the captains negligence and ignorance.

All the licensing, regulations, education and PDFs in the world aren't going to prevent stupidity. And so far, the cause all of these accidents have been attributed to stupidity and showing off.

I support safety and safe boating, I just don't believe these are safe people.

Lanyard Safety

It is an awesome product..... I bet more people would wear their lanyards if they realized how convenient they have become. Accidents happen (even at speeds below 35mph), no one intentionally goes overboard -hence the word accident. It takes about 15 minutes to install a wireless lanyard. I don't believe 15 minutes is too inconvenient for anyone when it comes to boating safety.

Lanyard Safety

I work for a "wireless" lanyard company. Lanyards are inexpensive and easy to install. Although all manufacturers do not make them standard, NASBLA is establishing a model act that requires the install and wear of lanyards in all fifty states. You should definitely check it out:
www.nasbla.org
Hopefully this will become law so that we can all be safer on the water.

at100plus

I'm very sad to hear of all these accidents.

One thing that I started doing recently when I realized I did a couple big speed runs and noticed after that my lanyard was on the floor.

I drape the lanyard over the bottom of my steering wheel. Can't steer the boat with it there, reminds you to put it on.

carney

I keep thinking that if you do not put one on and get ejected out of the boat where will the boat end up? I know with mine it will go until it hits something or runs out of gas. the throttles do not move back by them selves.

vandy021

Well said. Anyone of us can make a mistake, esp. at the speeds some of us run