How much does it take to get these things to go off prematurely?

I know I worried about it last summer. The fog was incredibly thick,
water was running off of every thing, rigging, arms, glasses.
Everything was just soaked.

Howard

Gary wrote:
Mys Terry wrote:

On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 14:57:40 -0500, Ryk wrote:


On 16 Feb 2006 07:33:05 -0800, in message
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"purple_stars" wrote:


as low tech as a foam filled vest is there's something about it i find
reassuring, that something being that if it gets punctured it won't
sink. maybe keep foam filled vests near the ditch bag and put them on
if you have time before you go over the side, keeping the inflatable on
most times in case you accidentally fall overboard ?


I'd pick the foam vest if I knew I was going in the water. If nothing
else, mine would provide somewhat better insulation against
hypothermia, which is exactly the thing that keeps me from wearing it
when sailing around on a nice warm day. My Mustang inflatable with
harness is quite comfortable even on hot days, although I had to
relocate the approval labels to make it comfortable to wear over just
skin.

Ryk



To me, the best feature of a foam vest in rough conditions is the
padding when
you bang into things. My ribs are very grateful!


Mys Terry

I'm with the guy who has both. We have the manually inflated mustangs
with harnesses for everyday where and positive flotation ones for the
real emergency. I don't like the auto inflaters because the sometimes
inflate when you don't want them to. Of course there is the bang on the
head argument but I'm hoping the cold water will wake me up!

Gaz