Thanks for all the comments and honest answers. The point for the thread was as with all of these discussions is to raise awarness through communication. "Transparent communication breeds corrective human behavior".

Boating safety can be broken down into two basic parts.

Preventative Mechanisms and Response Mechanisms. Kill switch lanyards are an active preventative and a response mechanism and as such incredibly important.

Besafe

Not enough, But always during a poker or fun run and when driving Tantrum’s AMT

I should know better. I once hit a wake wrong and I ended on the floor on top of my wife with the boat stuck at full throttle. All I could do was try and reach up and turn the key off. I twisted my wife’s ankle in the process.

Not only do I wear them - I have a buoy with a 4 ft rope as my life jacket slung over the bolsters towards the back with the rope squeezed between so it will release with me if I go over - Its hill billy but its has the lanyards attached to it too - If I go over, I have a buoy and the lanyard on my - boat shuts off and I float with a buoy. The next quest is how many wear a life jacket when not on a Poker run over 65 MPH - This is just a 55-65 thing, anything over 65 one should wear a jacket PERIOD

THAT IS A GOOD POINT! - SPARE LANYARDS!!! for everyone

On Plane Alwyas.
Going from the trailer to the dock or vice versa, no.

Always

when on plane, yes sir.

About 7 years ago when I had my Jet-Ski I hit a wave wrong and got chucked off.First off if you have never hit the water at 55-or 60 its hard!! and you will slid for a while.
When leaving the ski I wacked my ankle preety hard,I thought it was broken at first,so I swam back to the ski using only my arms and crawled up realized my ankle was not broke just a bad sprain.Had I not had my life vest and kill switch on migt have been different outcome
If its my time I would rather go out with the throttles to the stops but if its not my time I would rather just swim back to the boat
From what I have seen 90% of all boating fatalites could be avoided if people would wear life vests and kill switches

I've got one of those Manta Ray flying tubes. Well in order to "maintain" flight you must be going 50+. Well I got thrown off it about 10ft in the air + 50mph = no breath for 5 mins. PFD's are mandatory in NJ for water sports and if I didn't have one on that would have been my last boat trip. I also (laugh now) will be wearing a helmet while flying that thing again. After skipping along (what felt like) concrete for 100 ft I went about 10 ft under and didn't know which way was up. Fun times. Never again

Always