Man Overboard Poles?

[DoubleEnder]

Are they a thing of the past? Have not seen many in recent years.

[tommays]

Still have to keep them on the race boat and if you have and MOB at night you will really regret NOT having one with a strobe so the MOB and the boat can find it

[svHyLyte]

You may not see MOB Poles as often as many yachts are now equiped with something like this: MOM-8A Man Overboard Module

[Squidd]

$700..??

I'm gonna build a MOB pole out of PVC, lead weight and a foam floatie...tie it to my life ring...

Will post pics when done.

[jackdale]

Most charter boats that I use for teaching have MOB poles. We use them for teaching MOB. I tell the students in a real situation to get one in the water as a datum point. The flag is very useful in determining wind direction.

I wish that the poles would be equipped with a piece of line attached to either side of the float; an MOB could hold that line.

[hellosailor]

Yeah, Squidd, the prices are absurd. Friend of mine needed one for a nearshore race. Eight foot+ stick of bamboo, a gallon jug foam filled & adhered with a $5 can of spray foam, some lead tire weights (used, free) melted in a can fastened to the bottom, another $5 for a nice can of white paint.

Total cost about $15, $20 with the dayglo paper laminated as a flag up top. Strobe optional and extra, nice idea. But $700...for $700 I'd make one up out of carbon fiber with a cappucino machine and ebook reader to entertain the guy hanging onto it in the water.

[tommays]

Pickup stick with a C-LIGHT tethered to a horseshoe with the built in drogue for raaces that finish in the dark