Ohara's sospender recharge question got me thinking.

1. What PFD do you use/prefer for
a. Fishing.
b. Cruise speed.
c. Sleeping on the boat
d. Hot weather
e. Cool/cold weather

Does anybody keep more than one PFD aboard for these different
conditions?

How do you test inflatables?
Seems you would want to know it will work when you go in the drink.

For the boating I've done we always just had floating cushions aboard,
but that was lakes where you could probably swim ashore in a pinch.
When I get my boat and get on the ocean I'll probably want to be
wearing a PFD at all time.
Is that what you guys do?

--Vic

"Vic Smith" wrote in message
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Ohara's sospender recharge question got me thinking.

1. What PFD do you use/prefer for
a. Fishing.
b. Cruise speed.
c. Sleeping on the boat
d. Hot weather
e. Cool/cold weather

Does anybody keep more than one PFD aboard for these different
conditions?

How do you test inflatables?
Seems you would want to know it will work when you go in the drink.

For the boating I've done we always just had floating cushions aboard,
but that was lakes where you could probably swim ashore in a pinch.
When I get my boat and get on the ocean I'll probably want to be
wearing a PFD at all time.
Is that what you guys do?

--Vic

I sure as heck do on my small open boat.a
Even on the Mirage 33 sailboat, I ways wore my PFD when out of the harbour.
My current model.....
http://ca.binnacle.com/product_info....roducts_id=655

On Tue, 23 Sep 2008 11:33:29 -0300, "Don White"
wrote:


"Vic Smith" wrote in message
.. .
Ohara's sospender recharge question got me thinking.

1. What PFD do you use/prefer for
a. Fishing.
b. Cruise speed.
c. Sleeping on the boat
d. Hot weather
e. Cool/cold weather

Does anybody keep more than one PFD aboard for these different
conditions?

How do you test inflatables?
Seems you would want to know it will work when you go in the drink.

For the boating I've done we always just had floating cushions aboard,
but that was lakes where you could probably swim ashore in a pinch.
When I get my boat and get on the ocean I'll probably want to be
wearing a PFD at all time.
Is that what you guys do?

--Vic

I sure as heck do on my small open boat.a
Even on the Mirage 33 sailboat, I ways wore my PFD when out of the harbour.
My current model.....
http://ca.binnacle.com/product_info....roducts_id=655

Wooo-eeee. A hundred bucks.
What do you mean "out of the harbour?"
This is sort of what I'm trying to find out about PFD usage.
Can't drown in the harbor - harbour?

--Vic

"Vic Smith" wrote in message
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On Tue, 23 Sep 2008 11:33:29 -0300, "Don White"
wrote:


"Vic Smith" wrote in message
. ..
Ohara's sospender recharge question got me thinking.

1. What PFD do you use/prefer for
a. Fishing.
b. Cruise speed.
c. Sleeping on the boat
d. Hot weather
e. Cool/cold weather

Does anybody keep more than one PFD aboard for these different
conditions?

How do you test inflatables?
Seems you would want to know it will work when you go in the drink.

For the boating I've done we always just had floating cushions aboard,
but that was lakes where you could probably swim ashore in a pinch.
When I get my boat and get on the ocean I'll probably want to be
wearing a PFD at all time.
Is that what you guys do?

--Vic

I sure as heck do on my small open boat.a
Even on the Mirage 33 sailboat, I ways wore my PFD when out of the
harbour.
My current model.....
http://ca.binnacle.com/product_info....roducts_id=655

Wooo-eeee. A hundred bucks.
What do you mean "out of the harbour?"
This is sort of what I'm trying to find out about PFD usage.
Can't drown in the harbor - harbour?

--Vic

Here, the water is calmer in the harbour than out on the open North
Atlantic.
If I had fallen overboard I was confident (hopeful) that the boat would come
back and at least toss me a ring so they could keep me afloat until I
climbed the stern boarding ladder.
Out on rough water...not so confident.

On Sep 23, 10:45 am, wrote:
On Tue, 23 Sep 2008 09:37:30 -0500, Vic Smith



wrote:
On Tue, 23 Sep 2008 11:33:29 -0300, "Don White"
wrote:

"Vic Smith" wrote in message
. ..
Ohara's sospender recharge question got me thinking.

1. What PFD do you use/prefer for
a. Fishing.
b. Cruise speed.
c. Sleeping on the boat
d. Hot weather
e. Cool/cold weather

Does anybody keep more than one PFD aboard for these different
conditions?

How do you test inflatables?
Seems you would want to know it will work when you go in the drink.

For the boating I've done we always just had floating cushions aboard,
but that was lakes where you could probably swim ashore in a pinch.
When I get my boat and get on the ocean I'll probably want to be
wearing a PFD at all time.
Is that what you guys do?

--Vic

I sure as heck do on my small open boat.a
Even on the Mirage 33 sailboat, I ways wore my PFD when out of the harbour.
My current model.....
http://ca.binnacle.com/product_info....roducts_id=655

Wooo-eeee. A hundred bucks.
What do you mean "out of the harbour?"
This is sort of what I'm trying to find out about PFD usage.
Can't drown in the harbor - harbour?

--Vic

Look around the docks in your marina sometime and tell me how you
would get back out of the water if you slipped off the dock. Most
marinas lack any provision for this. It gets even harder if you are
injured in the fall, or hypothermmia is setting in.

You might want to put on that PFD when you get out of your car.

Any of us who step out on the dock wear a pfd. We wear pfd all the
time on the boats. In summer, its inflatables. In winter, the usual
jacket type will do but we prefer the inflatables with built in
harness for tying in.

On Tue, 23 Sep 2008 12:15:56 -0400, wrote:

On Tue, 23 Sep 2008 10:45:52 -0400, wrote:

Look around the docks in your marina sometime and tell me how you
would get back out of the water if you slipped off the dock. Most
marinas lack any provision for this. It gets even harder if you are
injured in the fall, or hypothermmia is setting in.

That is the good thing about SW Florida In most places you can wade
ashore and the water is still 70 in the winter.

I always look for how to back when on a dock.
Seen lots of places where it's no easy trick.
Hang on to a buoy and wait for a boat at some bridges.
At my sister's Punta Gorda canal dock the water's only a few feet
deep. But the barnicles/shells on the seawall look vicious to the
skin if you try to climb out.
I'd probably stand there until somebody brought a ladder.

--Vic