Parties in the Batcheler vs. Malibu Boats Legal Case / Trial in Georgia. Stephan Paul Batchelder & Margaret Mary Batchelder (parents of Ryan Batchelder, deceased). Dennis Ficarra (operator of the boat and Ryan’s great uncle). Malibu Boats West. Malibu Boats LLC. The Trial Jury verdict / award 28 August 2021 $5 million for life of […]
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Malibu Boats loses 200 million dollar jury trial
Posted by Gary
· Saturday, August 28th, 2021 at 11:52 PM
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Categories : Legal Shorts
Feasel propeller case heard by Utah Supreme Court
Posted by Gary
· Thursday, May 13th, 2021 at 01:56 PM
On June 30, 2012 Mr Feasel and Mr Martinez were fishing. They were in a Tracker bass boat powered by a Mercury Marine outboard motor on a Utah reservoir. The boat swerved and both men were ejected. The unmanned boat circled in the Circle of Death. Mr. Feasel, the passenger, was repeatedly struck the propeller. […]
Categories : Legal Shorts
Perpetual Boat Propeller Safety Hazards & How to Mitigate Them
Posted by Gary
· Tuesday, August 8th, 2017 at 02:40 PM
The boating industry has been plagued with certain boat propeller safety hazards / issues for decades, some for over a century. While progress have been made on many fronts, some problems remain perpetual / eternal. Some solutions that have been applied have failed, others have wilted on the shelves for a variety of reasons. Some […]
Safety Hierarchy, Hierarchy of Controls & Haddon’s 10 Countermeasures & Warnings
Posted by Gary
· Tuesday, August 8th, 2017 at 02:03 PM
Engineering Tools Provide Solutions to Long Standing Boat Propeller Safety Issues The boating industry repeatedly just sticks it head in the sand regarding long standing propeller safety issues. We suggest its time to go back to the drawing board on Perpetual boat propeller accident scenarios, like the Perpetual Propeller Accident Scenarios identified in a related […]
Categories : Our Thoughts on Propeller Safety Topics
Worst Boat Propeller Warning Ever: nausea category
Posted by Gary
· Wednesday, February 8th, 2017 at 04:48 PM
Over the years we have seen many boat propeller warnings that were not as effective as they should have been for all kinds of reasons. Over the last 40 plus years I have looked at thousands of warnings on many kinds of equipment and none of them have ever made me sick. All that changed […]
Categories : Preventing Propeller Accidents
Tags : Propeller Safety, Warnings
Warnings for outboard motor can flip into boat
Posted by Gary
· Saturday, July 16th, 2016 at 09:57 AM
Bombardier and Mercury Marine outboard operators manuals have long warned parts of or all of an outboard motor may enter the boat after striking a submerged object. An example from the 2012 250 horsepower Evinrude E-tec manual is shown at right. A big thanks to Bombardier Recreational Products & Vehicles (BRP) for putting their operators […]
Categories : Outboard Flipped Into Boat
Back in May 2015, American Boat & Yacht Council, ABYC, released their consolidated boat warnings. ABYC grouped several warnings together for helm and transom warnings on specific types of boats. Earlier, we furnished a history of the development of ABYC’s consolidated warnings. The Importance and Timeliness of This Review Due to our specific interest in […]
Categories : Our Thoughts on Propeller Safety Topics
Tags : ABYC, ANSI Z535.4, Boating Safety, legal, product liability, Propeller Safety, standards, Warnings
ABYC Consolidated Boat Warnings: ANSI Z535.4 & ALL CAPS
Posted by Gary
· Thursday, January 7th, 2016 at 02:13 PM
We previously announced the American Boat and Yacht Council (ABYC) consolidated boat warnings in our May 2015 post titled, ABYC Releases Consolidated Boat Warning Labels. As we review those labels, one feature of several labels stands out, the excessive use of ALL CAPS. As ABYC talks about the new labels, they repeatedly mention American National […]
Categories : Our Thoughts on Propeller Safety Topics
ABYC Consolidated Boat Warnings: History of their development
Posted by Gary
· Monday, January 4th, 2016 at 12:01 PM
This post is the second of a three part series on the new American Boat & Yacht Council consolidated warnings for recreational boats. We announced the new labels in May 2015 in part 1, our post titled, ABYC Releases Consolidated Boat Warning Labels. History of Development Note – much of our story of the development […]
It has long been known that if you take you hand off the tiller or steering wheel, many outboard powered boats will circle hard to the right due to propeller torque. The boating industry has had various name for it through the yeaers. In the 1980’s some called it the “Circling Phenomenon”. Some call it […]
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