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Old 04-20-2022, 10:15 AM   #3
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Any device you pick needs to be considered as part of the system you will use to get a helpless MOB back safely aboard. Think person knocked unconscious or in cold water (not likely in Placida). There have been plenty of discussions here over the years about how to recover a person, especially if it is a woman recovering a male partner in a high freeboard vessel like a trawler. A ring is probably not going to be too usefull in such a situation - you would want something which could be arranged under the armpits of the MOB, even if it required jumping in to do it or managing it from the swim platform (goes to my objection to cluttering swim steps with thinks like dinghies).
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