Thread: Wear Your Life jackets fellas

After watching the ABs vs France , the father in law and I went out of the mount for a fish - we dropped a long line and some spot and then went in towards Rabbit for a stray line . We settled in for half an hour with a few other boats around we had a small 1m swell coming in & a light breeze - A boat to our left pulled anchor and started moving - At a glance it looked small and low in the water - A couple of minutes later I hear a Yelp and look over my shoulder to see the same boat flipped up with the Bowe upside down and pointing to the sky - the two occupants flapping about in the water. We got onto the radio and called Coast guard gave them a sit rep and went to offer assistance - Luckily there where a few boats around so there was plenty of help and the situation was under control quickly. The coast guard took about 20min to arrive and sorted it all out

Gives you the shits tho - what seems like a great day on the water with no real risk / winds / massive swells etc - can soon turn pear shape. They had life jackets on and swam to the closest boat - Also makes you think how the situation could have been a whole lot different if you changed a few of these variable's.

A great lesion on wearing your life Jackets Lads

+1 ALWAYS wear a life jacket....your NOT a wuss if you do....its really about common sense not machoism.....

+1

I'm more than capable at swimming 2km but always wear a life jacket. One of those variables is your ability to do anything if incapacitated.

Poor buggers!

Sounds like a close call. Timely reminder.

They get swamped? Or had slowly been taking on water?

Good to see they had jackets on.

Originally Posted by JoshC

They get swamped? Or had slowly been taking on water?

Good to see they had jackets on.

Im Not sure - I think they may have got swamped - the boat looked real low in the water with bugga all free board - more a Jet /speed boat than a fishing boat - would have only taken both of them to be on one side of the boat throwing the balance out & being already low in the H20 could have easily been hit with a good swell and as they say .............the rest is now history .....

I wear the forum beanie as well helps to stay afloat

Originally Posted by Dundee

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Cutting a dashing figure in that picture Dundee

Originally Posted by Dundee

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Looks like Port of Tauranga Dundee?

Originally Posted by Gibo

Looks like Port of Tauranga Dundee?

Busted by Gibo

Originally Posted by Dundee

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No compromise on the camo wardrobe eh Dundee, even when you're out on a blow-boat!

And don't forget your googles hey DD

Good time to think about inflatable life jackets – they should get a regular check over – take a look at the Hutchwilco web site –
INFLATABLE LIFEJACKET SERVICING - Hutch Wilco
One word of advice – if you have removed the gas bottle - don’t yank the operating handle unless you want to spend some money – the tiny bit of green plastic that holds the handle in place on my ones is only available within a full rearm kit - $39
Two out of my three had very loose gas bottles - not sure if they would have inflated or not