A Free fall Lifeboat is to be davit launched every 3 months and either simulated or launched in free fall mode once every 6 months. However a lot of new boat manufacturers do not recommend repeated free fall launching. With simulation and davit launch now fast becoming the new normal, this is one experience that most youngsters will never have a chance to get. As for me, this boat is over 25 years old and has been launched in free fall over 50 times, as in the early years, we used to do it 3 mon