{"id":3235,"date":"2013-06-28T10:57:48","date_gmt":"2013-06-28T10:57:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tynemouthsc.co.uk\/?p=3235"},"modified":"2025-11-22T10:17:43","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T10:17:43","slug":"kill-cord-timely-reminder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tynemouthsc.co.uk\/index.php\/kill-cord-timely-reminder\/","title":{"rendered":"Kill Cord Timely Reminder"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Investigations into the recent tragic accident in Padstow find that the boat was fitted with a kill cord, but that it was not attached to the driver at the time.<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #1f497d;\">The\u00a0RYA\u00a0reminds all owners and operators of such vessels fitted with a kill cord to;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>1. Test them regularly to ensure that the engine stops when the kill cord mechanism is operated<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #1f497d;\">2. Make sure that the cord is in good condition<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #1f497d;\">3. Always attach the cord to the driver, ideally before the engine is started, but certainly before the engine is put in gear<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #1f497d;\">4. When changing drivers, it is strongly recommended that you should turn off the engine before transferring the kill cord from one driver to the other<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #1f497d;\">5. The engine should only be restarted when the kill cord has been securely attached to the new driver.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #1f497d;\">The kill cord serves only one vital purpose, to stop the engine when the driver moves away from the controls for whatever reason.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #1f497d;\">We all know it makes sense, let\u2019s not have a repeat of this tragedy.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rya.org.uk\/infoadvice\/safteytips\/Pages\/KillCord.aspx\">Read what the\u00a0RYA\u00a0has to say about this.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Investigations into the recent tragic accident in Padstow find that the boat was fitted with a kill cord, but that it was not attached to the driver at the time. The\u00a0RYA\u00a0reminds all owners and operators of such vessels fitted with a kill cord to; 1. Test them regularly to ensure that the engine stops when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[87],"class_list":["post-3235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-safety"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tynemouthsc.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tynemouthsc.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tynemouthsc.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tynemouthsc.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tynemouthsc.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3235"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/tynemouthsc.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3245,"href":"https:\/\/tynemouthsc.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3235\/revisions\/3245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tynemouthsc.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tynemouthsc.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tynemouthsc.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}