Hi

"Jacques Mertens" wrote in message ...
Respect for the sea doesn't mean that passive safety should be an
overwhelming priority in choosing a boat or a design, that's what I wanted
to say.

Now if a junior in a boxy Optimist capsize usealy nothing bad happen
except some wet clotches, but if some 60 year old stand up in the 8
feet dinghie at a cold evening with a bit wind , the boat will soon
drift away before the guy reach the surface again, and if you prepare
a jurney with the clotches you would use for a ride on a bike or think
you can use clotches that will soak and get heavy in water , you are
not preparing any passive safety, realy _that_ is where you shuld
remember the "respect" ; with those small things ,like knowing that
you can proberly not alone get back on land while after a short time
in cold water you lost your pover, and can not maneage alone.
What I want to say is, that it is strange spending lots of money on
trivial everyday things , and still have a life jacket that is 20
years old that you never tried if realy work and is impossible to tie
right. ------- As when you are there in the water, you only can think
_one thing at a time_ if you even can think, and things must be _easy
and work.

P.C.