In Reply to: Warning re Fast Boats to Gilis posted by cyberbirth on Sunday, 8. August 2010 at 15:28 Bali Time:
when going by fast boat is the fact that many are almost completely enclosed apart from the rear where you enter and exit and windows have to remain closed because of the amount of spray caused by the boats hitting swells at high speed.
If you have safety concerns now then best go via Lombok by plane.
If one of these boats capsized I doubt many would be able to get out due to the seating arrangements and amount of people on board no matter how many life jackets and safety equipment they had.
I hung back both trips so I was near the rear open sections,bit noisier but felt a lot safer.