Safety Equipment Poll

[4liters]

It's never going to be perfect. As long as the rules if followed give a good chance of survival in the case of accidents and those rules are enforced to a reasonable level then that should be enough. You're never going to eliminate idiots from the sport just as all the millions spent on road safety awareness and enforcement haven't reduced the road toll to zero.

[maverick]

It's never going to be perfect. As long as the rules if followed give a good chance of survival in the case of accidents and those rules are enforced to a reasonable level then that should be enough. You're never going to eliminate idiots from the sport just as all the millions spent on road safety awareness and enforcement haven't reduced the road toll to zero.

Correct.

[Wind Waker]

+1 standard marine license with a 'kayak' endorsement. I've met some on the water who don't know what the channel markers mean let alone right of way.

[spider25160]

+1 standard marine license with a 'kayak' endorsement. I've met some on the water who don't know what the channel markers mean let alone right of way.

That would be great except as has already been discussed the Victorian boat licence has absolutely nothing to do with safety and is entirely a revenue raiser.

[Wind Waker]

+1 standard marine license with a 'kayak' endorsement. I've met some on the water who don't know what the channel markers mean let alone right of way.

That would be great except as has already been discussed the Victorian boat licence has absolutely nothing to do with safety and is entirely a revenue raiser.

I'll agree to disagree. Its better than no training at all

[Gav]

Think Water ways are bad in port philp bay come up to likes around the grampions give way to small craft & yatch mean get as close as posable at speed.

[4liters]

+1 standard marine license with a 'kayak' endorsement. I've met some on the water who don't know what the channel markers mean let alone right of way.

That would be great except as has already been discussed the Victorian boat licence has absolutely nothing to do with safety and is entirely a revenue raiser.

I'll agree to disagree. Its better than no training at all

Probably, but is it worth the cost to kayak users?

[Digger]

+1 standard marine license with a 'kayak' endorsement. I've met some on the water who don't know what the channel markers mean let alone right of way.

That would be great except as has already been discussed the Victorian boat licence has absolutely nothing to do with safety and is entirely a revenue raiser.

I'll agree to disagree. Its better than no training at all

Except there is no test regarding proficiency in the boat when you get a licence and there will never be as it would cost too much to carry out. I imagine that boaties in their second season will have forgotten much of what they were required to learn to secure a licence.

[Wind Waker]

Until they run aground.

A license costs SFA and if someone can't afford it they really should look for a new hobby as the correct safety gear is probably too expensive for them as well.

A license removes the excuse for not knowing and might just save a life or two.

The kayak component would just need the safety basics i.e. what you should and should not wear, check weather conditions, correct safety equipment, be alert, reminder to practice re-entry, dangers of becoming entangled in a capsize etc.

Think of it as a safety primer rather similar in some ways to the PWC endorsement

[4liters]

You still need to enforce it though, and you might as well enforce the existing rules and see if that helps rather than rushing in new rules. A licence won't do S#!^ if people just ignore it and get into trouble anyway.