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Originally Posted by paintitredinHC
Public Service Announcement:
The video provided in the link below needs to be seen by everyone on the lake. Heck, it should part of the boater safety course when you get a license. Aside from making it a prerequisite to getting a license, I figured the next best way to distribute the message is via this forum. This video absolutely nails it. Pass your learning from this video on to your children - and even your children's children's children.
Go ahead an pass it along to all of your neighbors too.
http://www.learnwake.com/videos/prop...niques-part-1/
Happy boating season!
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I found the thought process on the video to be pretty interesting, but one thing struck me as a little strange.
As I remember things in learning boating, if you are towing / pulling someone behind the boat, when you have someone fall into the water, you make your turn to the side that the helm is on; that is if the helm is on the starboard side of the boat, turn to starboard, and if on the port side, turn to port. That way both the observer and the operator have a chance to keep the person in the water in sight. It also allows the boat operator to keep sight of the person in the water as the boat is approaching that person.
In the video, when the person fell, the operator turned to port, with a starboard helm. Otherwise ok, I guess, from a non-wakeboarding boater.
