Hello Fellow RV'ers. As an RV'er and a member of the US Coast Guard Auxiliary, We like to travel and go boating where available. We want to remind everyone that National Safe Boating Week is May 16-22. This is the week before Memorial Day Weekend. The Coast Guard and the Auxiliary strongly encourage everyone to use safe boating practices and always" WEAR YOUR LIFEJACKET"!Let's have fun this summer and please, BE SAFE.For more information, I invite you to check out our website at www.cgaux.org, Thank You.

trackside wrote:Hello Fellow RV'ers. As an RV'er and a member of the US Coast Guard Auxiliary, We like to travel and go boating where available. We want to remind everyone that National Safe Boating Week is May 16-22. This is the week before Memorial Day Weekend. The Coast Guard and the Auxiliary strongly encourage everyone to use safe boating practices and always" WEAR YOUR LIFEJACKET"!Let's have fun this summer and please, BE SAFE.For more information, I invite you to check out our website at www.cgaux.org, Thank You.always" WEAR YOUR LIFEJACKET" For children under a certain age, it is the law, but there is no way I am wearing one in 100 degree heat. As a long as there is one for everyone in the boat I am within the lawGuy

Guy Roan wrote:trackside wrote:Hello Fellow RV'ers. As an RV'er and a member of the US Coast Guard Auxiliary, We like to travel and go boating where available. We want to remind everyone that National Safe Boating Week is May 16-22. This is the week before Memorial Day Weekend. The Coast Guard and the Auxiliary strongly encourage everyone to use safe boating practices and always" WEAR YOUR LIFEJACKET"!Let's have fun this summer and please, BE SAFE.For more information, I invite you to check out our website at www.cgaux.org, Thank You.always" WEAR YOUR LIFEJACKET" For children under a certain age, it is the law, but there is no way I am wearing one in 100 degree heat. As a long as there is one for everyone in the boat I am within the lawGuy Come on man, wear your life jacket... makes it much easier for the authorities to find your body.:S

I was raised on the water and have been running rivers for 60 years. Wear a lifejacket. Wear it in canoes, kayaks, SUPs. etc. Kids should wear one all the time. Look out for cold water. Dress for immersion if you are in a craft that can get you wet.

I never wore a life jacket but they were available. But then I had a big boat. One thing I always objected to was how the cops could pull you over and board your boat for no reason, which is against the US Constitution. Highway cops can't pull you over for no reason but the the water cops can? Bucket of worms has been opened.

I am all for PFDs when riding jet skis, water skiing, wake boarding, operating a small fast boat but where I live PFDs are not mandatory, not even for small children.Before the RV & while our kids were growing up we were very avid boaters. Our daughter was 6 days old when she spent her first night on a boat, a 21' cuddy cabin on anchor. We had one heckuva thunderstorm that night.Our kids never did wear PFDs onboard. We had safety rules for them & they were enforced. No walking along side decks while underway. No sitting with feet over the side unless a handrail stanchion was between the legs. As soon as they could swim we had MOB drills in open water so that they would know what it was really like to be out in the open watching their boat get smaller.They learned that water is a dangerous thing from an early age & to respect it. We never did have one of them accidently go overboard. They know that the coastguard is not going to rescue them just in time as seen on TV.People do dumb stuff on the water. Kids bow riding is one of the worst. That PFD won't be much use if they go overboard & the boat runs over them striking them with the running gear.

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Desert_Captain
Explorer III
May 16, 2020
Guy Roan wrote:
trackside wrote:
Hello Fellow RV'ers. As an RV'er and a member of the US Coast Guard Auxiliary, We like to travel and go boating where available. We want to remind everyone that National Safe Boating Week is May 16-22. This is the week before Memorial Day Weekend. The Coast Guard and the Auxiliary strongly encourage everyone to use safe boating practices and always" WEAR YOUR LIFEJACKET"!Let's have fun this summer and please, BE SAFE.For more information, I invite you to check out our website at www.cgaux.org, Thank You.

always" WEAR YOUR LIFEJACKET"

For children under a certain age, it is the law, but there is no way I am wearing one in 100 degree heat.
As a long as there is one for everyone in the boat I am within the law

Guy

Come on man, wear your life jacket... makes it much easier for the authorities to find your body.

:S
Guy_Roan
Explorer
May 16, 2020
trackside wrote:
Hello Fellow RV'ers. As an RV'er and a member of the US Coast Guard Auxiliary, We like to travel and go boating where available. We want to remind everyone that National Safe Boating Week is May 16-22. This is the week before Memorial Day Weekend. The Coast Guard and the Auxiliary strongly encourage everyone to use safe boating practices and always" WEAR YOUR LIFEJACKET"!Let's have fun this summer and please, BE SAFE.For more information, I invite you to check out our website at www.cgaux.org, Thank You.

always" WEAR YOUR LIFEJACKET"

For children under a certain age, it is the law, but there is no way I am wearing one in 100 degree heat.
As a long as there is one for everyone in the boat I am within the law

Guy

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