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Old 08-06-2009, 11:56 AM   #1

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Hello All

My boats kill switch was removed before I bought it, I just wondered how many of you use this feature? I was going to install a new one, And just wondered if most people use them or not.

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    I have never used them in any of the boats I have. If it's that rough out, we don't go out. In my years of boating, it has yet to happen to me, but if it gets that rough while we're out, I hope I'm smart enough to use someone else's dock or wait in a cove until the storm has passed.

    Jet skis and wave runner... always. But I haven't used the one on the boat.

    All that said, I think in most states you're required to have a kill switch on the boat. I'd have to go re-read the regulations to be certain though.


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    I used to be a Professional Bass Fisherman and we had to have them hooked to our life vests. After 10 years of 15+ tournaments a year I never once needed the kill switch. It was a very big hassle, it would always get pulled when you didn't want it. I would never use one again.
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    I often clip mine on when I'm going to be cruising around the lake at high speed. But I'm new to power-boats (The Admiral and I are blow-boaters ), so I tend to be extra-cautious. Besides: The lake we're on is large, so it has a lot of fetch. Lots of fetch means lots of open water for the wind to catch and bring up chop. There are also a lot of very large power-boats out there that raise some pretty impressive wakes.

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    My boats kill switch was removed before I bought it, I just wondered how many of you use this feature? I was going to install a new one, And just wondered if most people use them or not.

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    Default Re: Kill Switch

    It's now over a month since I commented on this issue, and...

    I'd gotten out of the habit of clipping on the kill switch lanyard. There didn't seem to be any point in a boat our size. Then, last weekend, coming back just after dark, cruising at about 25-30 MPH, light waves/chop, there was a boat about 3-4 times our size off the port bow on a collision course. I steered well to starboard well in advance of it becoming a problem, so we'd clear well to port of one another. Next thing I know, this other boat changes course to put us back on a collision course! I quickly altered course again well to starboard, to again put us in a position to pass one another well to port, and the other boat apparently finally got it, and also altered his course to starboard, increasing the distance.

    Then I passed over his wake, at relatively high speed, length-wise, rather than cross-wise. It was all I could do to stay more-or-less at the helm. If I'd been tossed out of my seat, without the engine being killed, the results would've been less than amusing. Sure, I should've immediately slowed-down. Sure, I should've turned into his wake. But the point is I didn't, because of the immediacy of the situation and, honestly, my inexperience. While I hope I react better to a similar situation in the future, should it happen, there's always the unexpected.

    So, henceforth, I'll be clipping in.
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