No I'm not stoned dick, but maybe you are since you don't understand what I said. I want to know the best way to stop a boat once it's already out of control. Like you said there should never be one, but what happens when there is. What if the kill switch malfunctions, what if the driver isn't ejected but is some how rendered unconscious but still in the captains seat? There will still be boats out of control even if they all have kill switches.

oh I understood you perfectly. My point is that if you are operating the boat as the law requires, there should never be a run away boat. The kill switch operation is supposed to be checked EVERY TIME you crank the engine. It's supposed to be wrapped around a limb with minimal slack. If you do all of those things, you'll never have a run away boat. Even if you don't come out of the boat, there's a 90% chance you aren't gonna in the seat of a boat running 75 mph if you're passed out. All you have to do is crank the engine and pull the lanyard. That'll show you it's working correctly. If a boat driver cannot perform this simple task and gets thrown out and ran over, well that's Natural selection I would say.

Dude get off your high horse and quit letting people piss in your wheaties too. He just had a simple question. "How would you stop a run away boat." A killswitch is a mechanical device and any mech device can fail. So let's say the kill switch malfunctioned and the boat was run away. How would the boat be stopped then?

My guess is probably wouldn't, until it hit a bank or ran out gas

Just hush dude. You apparently didn't read what was said or didn't comprehend it.

It's very simple. Break it down to it's core component. "How do you stop a run away boat". Not "How do you PREVENT a run away boat." You're just an asshole, it's not my fault.

Example : Guy sitting in boat driver seat. Has heart attack. Slumps in seat, but still there. Killswitch still in. How ya gonna stop it. If you can't answer just say so.

Wear your life jacket with a kill switch attached. That and those guys are idiots running any high performance boat without a hot foot on it. If I was stupid and didnt put on the jacket and got tossed, my foot would come off the hot foot, motor would drop to idle, big wave over the back of the boat and it would just sit there idling. Hot foots are not completely full-proof but are dang sure close. I wouldnt own a HP boat that wasnt rigged out with one.

lol I'm just an asshole? You apparently can't come up with a reasonable debate so you start name calling? Well if you wanna asshole I guess I'll be one.

Since you can't grasp this concept let's spell it out for you. Let's look at youre example; guy has a heart attack in a boat.

Any halfway smart person that has been around boats for longer than ten seconds knows that on any single engine boat design, standard rotation of the propeller is right hand rotation. So anyone knows that when you take your hand off the wheel, and given enough time, that rotation of the propeller will overcome the steering wheel and will make the boat steer a hard right. And even in a jonboat, when the boat takes a hard right and you're unconscious, you WILL NOT stay in the seat. And if the kill switch is hooked to your body as the law requires, it will kill the engine.

Now there again, if you didn't hook it up, or you didn't verify that it works, that's your problem. The only ways to stop a runaway boat at that point would be a remote kill switch (yes they make them) a remote fuel cut off (yes they make them), a dukes of hazard side by side switcharoo, or a damn good shot with a rifle.

Now then you got what you wanted, so shut up and troll somewhere else.

See there, I don't own a boat so I didn't know about remote kill switches or remote fuel cutoffs, or how the boat will eventually cut hard right. That's all people like me didn't know and wanted to learn out of curiosity. No one disputed that you should wear the kill switch and that's it law.

One reason I like bass club fishing. You must obey all the rules on the water or be disqualified. If the big motor is running, you MUST have your life jacket on and you MUST be wearing a kill switch.

It's habit now. Any time I'm on the water in my boat, I have my life jacket and kill switch on.

well now you know