Comment on Taking a spin around the pond in my boat
JoMiran@lemmy.ml 6 days ago
No lie, I kinda love it. Like a backyard tree house but this one gently rocks.
Comment on Taking a spin around the pond in my boat
JoMiran@lemmy.ml 6 days ago
No lie, I kinda love it. Like a backyard tree house but this one gently rocks.
OwOarchist@pawb.social 6 days ago
Fucking amazing repurposing of an unusable old sailboat into a really cool kid’s playhouse.
Bytemeister@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Kid’s playhouse + pond is asking for tragedy.
BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Won’t do it twice though, will they?
titanicx@lemmy.zip 5 days ago
Depends on how many kids you invite over.
OwOarchist@pawb.social 5 days ago
Not if the kids know how to swim … or the pond is really shallow.
Bytemeister@lemmy.world 5 days ago
It doesn’t really matter.
I’m gonna guess that your comment was a little tounge-in-cheek, but for people who don’t really know, if the water is deeper than about an inch and a half, you can drown in it. How well you can swim doesn’t really matter either, because the problem isn’t swimming, the problem is how you ended up in the water in the first place.
Jumping into the water when you are in the proper attire, and ready for it, is a relatively harmless situation, and even the most mediocre swimmers would have no issue keeping their head above water. Suddenly being in the water, upside-down, wearing pants, shirt and shoes (or even more clothing), is an entirely different situation that is dangerous even to experienced swimmers. Even worse, you may not be all the way in the water, your foot or leg may have been tangled during your fall, so just the top half your body is in the water, and now you need to get almost your entire weight lifted out of the water just to grab a breath.
This is why lifejackets are essential for any kind of boating. They don’t actually add that much buoancy to you (most people naturally float) but they add bouancy to your chest, and neck to keep your head out of the water if you are incapacitated.
Having a playhouse boat on a pond, like the picture, is very risky. Unless you are treating it like a real boat, and making sure that your kid treats it like a real boat too, then you are asking for a tragedy.