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| I swim for 40 minutes regularly at the local Y, but know from experience that between cold water and wet clothes I am not going far if I go over board. Something else to remember is that if you can get to your motor, many have a switch on the motor that will raise and lower the motor. Right after I got a boat with a Merc 90 the tech who set it up told me that tip. One nice summer day, I anchored in shallow water, went over the side, swam to the back, grabbed the motor and hit the switch. Lifted my 200 lb carcass no problem. I could have slid down the motor and into the back of the boat. Even if it just gets you out of cold water and not into the boat, your chances of survival are better.
You hope you never need to do something like that, but it makes sense to practice it, under controlled conditions, before you are in an emergency situation. | |
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