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Re: Tethering Kids during charter?
[Re: drcabral]
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We have had our 3 aboard every summer since they were 2 months old. Netting around the boat attached to lifelines and good life jackets as George says. Ours now put on life jackets like seatbelts in a car.
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Re: Tethering Kids during charter?
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06/20/2018 11:06 PM
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We took ours starting pretty young and the main bit of advice I can give is we brought appropriately sized life jackets with us and they always wore them while up top.
Louis from Houston
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Re: Tethering Kids during charter?
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06/21/2018 12:22 AM
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Netting not needed at this age. We took ours starting 3.5 and 7 years. Cat with comfortable lifejacket... No tether as if fall overboard, they could drown before you get them out/ release tether. And they will not be on deck if any significant weather.
Enjoy your trip! If you use a tether, it should be secured so they can't reach the water. We do this with our son on our 43' sailboat. We tether him within the cockpit. He can't even reach the life lines. I think at the ages of these kids though, a tether isn't needed. A life jacket and setting rules on where they can move, how to move and when would be enough.
Matt
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