2nd kill cord?

[bingomike]

After a day out the other day, I became aware that perhaps i wasn't paying enough attention to my passenger sat directly behind me on me new seat pod and could have lost him overboard and not realised for a few minutes...

Has anyone thought of fitting a 2nd kill cord to seats behind? or even some sort of switch that would illuminate a light in your line of sight on the front console?

Any thoughts?

Mike

[Cookee]

Piece of cake to fit a second killcord - Yamaha ones are very waterproof and all you need is two wires from the existing switch.

[Razorbill RIBs]

Originally Posted by Cookee

Piece of cake to fit a second killcord - Yamaha ones are very waterproof and all you need is two wires from the existing switch.

We had some little RNLI SIBs which were being used for a youth training (future crews?? or did i make that up?) programme.....they had a twin killcord arrangement but using one switch IIRC, but can't recall how it worked....as Cookee says, easy to wire in a second switch

[Portholme]

could you attach two lanyards to the same kill switch? it's unlikely that one peron falling overboard would pull the other over with a lanyard but it would stop the boat.

[Nos4r2]

I'd personally use an old Mercury killcord-it's a switch with a hood and a loop-so if you're solo you don't need to use a killcord on it and you can reset it just by flicking the switch if someone goes overboard.

I wouldn't want to be joined to someone in any way. A capsize could turn very nasty if you both end up attached together and underwater.

[chris123]

The fourth crew seat at the back of the RNLI's Atlantic 85 has a killcord switch and killcord.

Pulling the killcord switch triggers an alarm light on the helmsman's panel, and an audible alarm siren - it is not connected to the engines.

Cheers

Chris

[Polwart]

Multiple Kill Cords

[watersidemat]

Make sure you have at least 3 people on board.

Buddy system, one will notice if one is missing and tell the helm.
Losing one crew overboard is unlucky, loosing two at once?
Time to re do PBL2

You should notice if the helm goes missing


RYA instructors are supposed to have their kill chord attached to the students kill chord so if the instuctor falls that will pull the main kill chord in the box.

[Waterman]

connecting to an Alarm on helm seems like a better idea as the driver may need to move quickly to recover and if he had to fiddle around trying to reset/replace the kill cord the man over board was wearing could lose vital time not to mention if it was pulled accidentally when operating in surf etc.

[wavelength]

2nd kill cords only for teaching juniors --easy to rig to one switch and a cost free option whatever the switch type in a way that whilst operating the switch they do not pull on another overboard.

Make sure you have at least 3 people on board

I dont know that many people (or at least not that I want to take out on my boat for the day and who can put up with me )