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Combining what I see and my experience with various jet boats, expect a big budget hit with the patrol boats running into all kinds of things if they are jet powered.

WTF are you going on about :unsure: :unsure: Most of us are directly involved in patrol boat work around kids, used to do it, have kids doing it, or are in clubs that do it. Most or all of this thread is about how to not repeat this at our own clubs. Take a chill pill and come back if you...

Yanking the cord is faster than slowing down and shifting into neutral for sure if for no other reason than you have one less move to make and you can do it faster. OTOH you now have no control of the boat. If a person falls from a moving powerboat, IMHO nothing is fast enough to help except...

FYI some engines will still move the prop in neutral. My Mercruiser I/O skiboat did and I would shut down when people were boarding from the water. Speaking of waterskiing, the standard pickup procedure that is second nature to any ski boat skipper that gets the line back to the skier without...

I'll be having a word about this with my son before he takes the RIB out again. This does seem a bit odd, most ways of falling off a RIB leave one outside the path of the engine. The closest I ever came to chopping someone up was when a passenger fell out of a whaler I was running and HUNG ON...

My son did this powerboat course. It was pretty good and I would suggest any club have their instructors take it.