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re: This is why you wear life jackets and kill switches
Posted on 1/17/17 at 10:36 am to AFtigerFan
Posted on 1/17/17 at 10:36 am to AFtigerFan
I believe the mechanical failure part, just before they are tossed you can see him turning the wheel but the boat isn't responding then the wheel spins all the way to the left when he lets go but the boats going to the right. I always where my kill switch though I don't wear my pfd as much as I should, one positive of tournaments is getting folks more used to using both of those safety devices.
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Posted on 1/17/17 at 10:46 am to TxWadingFool
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just before they are tossed you can see him turning the wheel but the boat isn't responding
That's because the the foot of the motor was out of the water.
Posted on 1/17/17 at 10:54 am to TxWadingFool
Mechanical failures can happen to any boat including new ones, there was a boat shop employee out test running a new boat down here a couple years ago and it blew the fitting off the hydraulic steering line and it threw him out and it came around and hit him and he didn't survive the accident. A applied Kill switch probably would have saved his life, steering failure of some type is my biggest concern on mine when running as fast as we are.
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