Dogs on boats...

[Pipe_Dream]

Originally Posted by Destroyer

If you have a boarding platform on the back of the you can always train her to go to the platform by being there with some treat/meat/whatever. But in all cases, like RKC said.. ALWAYS keep the life jacket on them. It's just good sense. Dogs get tired just like people, and they can drown.

Good ideas, Destroyer. I have a swim platform -- the human kind -- and no doubt I could coax him to swim toward it, but I don't know if it would be easier than lifting him from the side. I guess if I'm standing on it I can lift him and try to swing him into the boat, but then again I don't know if I want him swimming anywhere near even a still prop. I've seen dog boarding platforms but they only seem to be workable on boats with less freeboard than our V's.