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Tranona you are one of the few talking sense in this thread.

Why would anyone buy a liferaft before first investing time and money sticking foam padding along the sides of the boom, then enforcing the wearing of crash helmets for all family crew?

A boom is a demonstrable killer or human cabbage maker, statistically speaking.

A powered anchor windlass is a evil potential finger amputator, but these get hardly any press compared to Titanic style founderings.

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