GL: Man Overboard

[Charles and Pat Culotta]

Chesapeake Magazine, there is a brief article on page
> 31 for a transmitter that cuts off the engine if the captain falls 
> overboard
> or sets off an alarm if a passenger falls overboard.


Such cut offs are standard on most, if not all, o/b motors  in the form of a 
plastic piece attached to a lanyard.

This is my opinion. I would not want the eng. of my trawler style to 
automatically shut dwn if I or anyone else fell overboard.
Think of the  ( quite possible) consequences, current, bad seas, limited 
visibility, passing thru a bridge or narrow passage in heavy current, in 
front of an oncoming fast ferry
or ocean going ship. No, I think not. Such decision should be left to a 
human. This is rt up there with the automatic eng shutdown in case of 
overheating.
For the same reasons stated I want to make that decision. I just may want to 
burn up the eng to save the people and the boat-------not necessarily in 
that order.:--)

CCC
CHARLES C., JR. & PAT CULOTTA
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