Safety Equipment
This department includes the items you may need to be safe on the canals
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Wooden Side Fender Hook

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These hooks allow you to quickly attach side fenders to your boat. This means you only need fenders for one side of your boat. The standard size fits over rails up to 45mm wide, whilst the wide one fits rails up to 65mm wide.

Made of varnished marine grade plywood.

Automatic Inflating Lifejacket

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This is the ideal lifejacket for both comfort and safety. It is very compact when worn with just a thin material covered pad like a waistcoat and can either be inflated manually or (more likely) automatically on entering the water.

Replacement kits are available and are easily fitted once the jacket has been inflated.

These jackets are available in red, khaki green or navy blue, although we don't always have all colours in stock. If you don't mind which colour you have, please choose the 'No preference' option

Folding Ladder-Plank

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The name describes it well. For most of the time it can be a lightweight boarding plank, but on those unfortunate occasions when someone falls in, it can be immediately turned into a rescue ladder.(It is also useful for access when blacking the boat, too)

The total weight is only 10kg, which is lighter than the average wooden plank.

The ladder-plank folds up when not in use and stands on its own four feet so you don't need to use pole and plank holders. Click icon below picture to see ladder folded.

These ladder-planks are just under 6 feet long and the ladder part is 15" wide with a steadying support 25" wide on one end.

Waterbuoy Float

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This is the product recently featured on 'Dragons Den'. We were so impressed with its capabilities that we got some as soon as possible. Now you can get one (or more).

What is a Waterbuoy? It is a small keyfob like device which can be attached to your keys, your mobile phone or anything else valuable to you which you might lose overboard.

Once immersed in water it automatically inflates a reinforced balloon strong enough to lift up to a kilogram of wieight to the surface and flashes a light within it too to make sure you can find it.

With all the data now being stored on mobile phones it is imperative that yours has a Waterbuoy attached to it. Even a windlass can be lifted to the surface by a waterbuoy!