rcgreat
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How many of you run a kill switch with a lanyard on you jon? My outboard does not currently have one but I am thinking of adding one for safety. Is it necessary?
Specknreds said:Do you have a tiller or remote steering? It's the law in Louisiana. In LA you also have to wear a life jacket while underway on a tiller driven boat. I had a accident with a rouge wave and every since then I have used it.
rcgreat said:Specknreds said:Do you have a tiller or remote steering? It's the law in Louisiana. In LA you also have to wear a life jacket while underway on a tiller driven boat. I had a accident with a rouge wave and every since then I have used it.
Its a tiller steer motor. I dont think its a law in FL. (I will check and make sure) and I know its not law to wear life while in motion unless you are under 12.
Specknreds said:rcgreat said:Specknreds said:Do you have a tiller or remote steering? It's the law in Louisiana. In LA you also have to wear a life jacket while underway on a tiller driven boat. I had a accident with a rouge wave and every since then I have used it.
Its a tiller steer motor. I dont think its a law in FL. (I will check and make sure) and I know its not law to wear life while in motion unless you are under 12.
Please check into the FL law. I will check later. I will be in FL at the end of Sept. fishing for a week out of Homosassa River. I'm bringing my boat and it is tiller.
The life jacket law in LA is when your outboard is running no matter your age.
CarlF said:Its cheap life insurance. Watching you boat go out of sight as you bob in the water would suck. Worse would be it circling back & running you over.
ben2go said:My engine has no provisions for a dead man switch.I do wear my pfd.If it had one I would use it every time.
Is that plate the only thing that can ground out the ignition....?ben2go said:I know but my engine doesn't have a wire to use to connect to.It has a plate under the fly wheel, that grounds out the ignition, when the throttle is back down to stop.I don't have a button or anything.Only wire I have is the plug wire.The points and condenser wire is solder and under a water tight cover.
Have you tried pushing the red button on the kill switch in to stop it? When I first got a motor with a kill switch, I thought the only way to stop it was to yank it, and used it like that for a friggen year and a half. Then, one day I was tooling down the lake (with a 4 horse, it is fairly slow), and musta been messing with the front of the tiller, and the motor just quit. I then realized that if you push the button in, it stops it. #-o #-oGrumMan said:=Not sure if something is wrong, but the only way to shut the motor off is to pull the kill switch, must be installed to start the motor. Real pain the @$$! I'd like to bypass it.
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