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Avoid heafty fines, make sure your life jacket is compliant. All inflatable life jackets must be annually serviced.
Menace inflatable life jackets must be professionally serviced from the 3rd year onwards for recreational users, or every year for commercial operators.
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Universal life jackets are an economical way to ensure everyone on your boat has a PFD. Wholesale Marine carries universal life jackets for adults, youth, and children. These vests are designed to fit a wide range of body sizes, making them a great option for boaters who frequently have guests aboard. For the best value on universal PFDs, we offer universal life jacket four packs from Onyx, Kent, and HO Sports. These packs come with four general purpose vests and storage bag.
Wholesale Marine stocks universal type I, type II, and type III life jackets from the most trusted brands in the marine industry. We offer free shipping on orders over $99, and same-day shipping on all in stock products. If you have additional questions on life vest sizes and fits, our customer service team is available Monday-Friday, 9AM to 6PM EST to answer your questions. Be sure to ask about our Captain's Club Rewards for even more ways to save.
Seago is a well know supplier of Life Jackets their aim and our aim is equip you as we would a friend their lifejackets and equipment is meticulously designed and crafted to push the boundaries of sea safety.
The Versatile Seagard is lightweight with a round neck design for comfort. This popular lifejacket is easy to fit and simple to rearm with a low profile design with a quick-release button and lightweight D shackle
Baltic (Sweden) Legend 165 N Lifejacket is a truly novel design compared to the traditional inflatable life jacket. The Legend fits perfectly without any sign of riding up or gaping on both men and women. In addition to the superb fit, some of the new features on the Legend are a large neck opening, pliable material, padded airmesh back and a larger status window. Large rearming status inspection window, Comfortable fleece lined collar, Easy adjustable waistband, Oral inflation-deflation tube, Lifting becket, Whistle, Fitted Crotch Strap included, Retro reflective patches and toggles, CO2 Cylinder 33g, 5-Years Guarantee.
As discussed previously, protecting your motor from ethanol is very important. However, even more important: protecting boat passengers by paying attention to boat safety. Recreational boating is a great way to pass the summer weekends, but a few quick and easy precautions can assure that you are doing so without risking the safety of you or your passengers. The US Coast Guard offers free Vessel Safety Checks, which is a great way to get peace of mind and assurance that you're cruising on a safe boat. Although there are certified examiners to do these checks, that doesn't mean you can't also check yourself. There are still many things that any Joe-Schmo can pay attention to when boating.
Life Jackets
Life Jackets may not be the comfiest - but wearing them is worth it. Enforced by the US Coast Guard, boats must carry one life Jacket, or personal flotation device (PFD), for each passenger. Also, any passenger under the age of 13 has to wear a life jacket. Not only is it important to have one, it is also important to have one that best matches your style of boating. There are five types of personal flotation devices: off-shore life jackets, near-shore life jackets, flotation aids, throw-able devices, and special-use devices. Although each type is meant to fulfill the same purpose, they have different advantages.
There are five types; however the most common PFDs are off-shore, near-shore, and flotation devices. Off-shore life jackets are the best for rough and remote waters because they provide the best buoyancy. Off-shore life jackets would be best when rescue may be delayed. Near-shore life jackets are better for inland and calmer waters; they only go around your neck so they're better for quick rescues. Flotation devices are the best for more freedom of movement; they're typically used for watersports because of this.
Lights, Signals, Fire Extinguisher
Along with life jackets, all vessels are required to have approved visual distress signals, fire extinguishers, and navigation lights. It is important to verify that your visual distress signals are not expired. While they still may be useful, they will not pass the U.S. Coast Guard regulations. For the fire extinguishers, it's important to make sure that they are in good, operable condition. At night, it is important to have the correct navigation lights; other boats on the water need to be able to spot you in the dark and vice versa. Not only are these three things important because of regulations, they will also help maintain safety while boating.
Correct Registration and Documentation
There are safety tips that protect you, and then there are safety tips that protect your time and fun. Failing to have correct documentation and visible registration can put a stop to your time on the water. Vessels must be visibly registered with display of registration numbers. Registration numbers must be visible in block letters, in a color that contrasts the back of the boat, and no smaller than 3 inches in height. Getting pulled over for a lack of registration would be quick way cut water time short, but it is also a very easy problem to avoid.
Vessel safety checks, offered by the U.S. Coast Guard, take a much closer look at the safety of your boat. Along with PFDs, registration, fire extinguishers, distress signals, and navigation lights, they check:
Upon passing a VSC, you recieve a decal for your boat that lets water police know that you are up to par with current regulations. There are different ways to efficiently check your boat: a personal check using a the VSC online checklist, a virtual check which requires you to answer a series of questions about your boat online, or requesting and scheduling a VSC with a certified examiner. All the options are offered for free, take minimal time, and are a great way to get peace of mind during the boating season.
The boating industry, those providing accessories to boats, those selling accessories and supplies to boaters, beer companies, the excursion tour boat industry, and others have a history of showing unsafe boating practices and behaviors in their advertisements, commercials, web sites, printed materials, trade show booths, and retail displays. Often, the unsafe practices and behaviors portrayed could lead to boat propeller injuries.
We are used to seeing the industry try to defeat propeller cases in court by claiming these practices are unsafe and the injured party assumed the risk when they did this or that. Its going to get harder for the industry to claim that, when the same practices are shown in their commercials.
Evinrude portrays two wake boarders on very short ropes behind their featured large outboard motors. The wakeboarders may be little further back than they look due to flattening of the image by telephoto lenses, but the resulting image gives the impression they are dangerously close to the propellers. It looks like the riders may be getting ready to drop the ropes and start wake surfing.
Additionally, we are used to seeing little kids in the big puffy life jackets. It is not immediately obvious if the little girl is wearing a life jacket or not. We do not see a life jacket on the man portrayed as her father.
The lower right image on their website shows two women at the stern with the Evinrude outboard engine running (you can see the water moving above the prop). One lady is standing right by the swim ladder with the engine running. This image was screen captured 7 February 2014.
We captured this image 21 June 2013. We reduced its size to help slow its spread. We also note we were unable to quickly find this image online when we published this post in February 2014. Mercury may have came forward and asked the source to pull it down. We found a related image on shootinghead.com
It appears Tohatsu has supplied this ski team with a boat featuring triple Tohatsu outboards. It is easy to envision the young woman loosing her footing and falling over the stern into the propellers. This image was obviously taken for distribution as it is available as a high resolution image. It was downloaded 7 February 2014.
A Wal-Mart store built a display from packages of beer and beer kegs that resembled a pontoon boat to help them sell more beer. Drinking and boating can lead to boat propeller accidents. We previously posted this image on 5 May 2013 on our list of Pontoon Boat Bowriding Accidents.
While not directly portraying unsafe boating practices, we suspect many find this ad in bad taste, as well as the fact that Coors was allowed to sponsor such an award. We are sure National Safe Boating Council appreciated the money, but it is a bit like accepting money from the devil. Families that lost loved ones to drunk boaters were sure to be insulted when they heard of this. The ad above was captured from Proceedings of the 2004 International Boating and Water Safety Summit.
Our attention quickly focused on the gentleman at the transom facing rearward. To better understand how he was sitting, we found a photo of the same vessel on Adventure Antigua web site and enlarged it using PhotoZoom Pro 5.
You can now see the boat is underway at speed. The gentleman is sitting on the top of the bench seat, facing the outboards with his left foot on a flat spot on the gunnel, and his right foot bracing against the middle the three large Yamaha outboards powering the vessel.
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