1. I wouldn’t start a passage wearing my best dress clothes.
2. I wouldn’t be in the cockpit on a passage without wearing a PFD, and
3. I most certainly would be on deck in a passage without wearing a PFD and a tether.
4. I’d be reluctant to start the engine with all the rigging dragging in the water.
My Avatar demonstrates that I would likely not make a good YouTuber (PFD on at the helm). The image was taken at the end of a grand day of cruising the PacificNW waters. The sea had calmed as the evening approached. We still had about 75 minutes to go to reach our home port of Everett, as the sun was setting behind our boat over Whidbey Island.many YouTube people who do not wear PFD's
That was my thought, also. Even with the limited range, they may have been able to hail another boat to relay a message. On another thought, maybe they did but left that part out for dramatic effect.One takeaway from the video is have a fully-charged, back-up handheld vhf radio.