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Rick brought up a good point here.
I am not an advocate of "always" wearing a lifejacket. What I meant was
when outside the cabin offshore.
We basically have crew wear a lifejacket under these circumstances.
Crossing a bar --- everybody wears inside and out.
Mooring, line handling, rigging, fendering --- outside crew wears.
Offshore or any rough water condition --- outside crew wears.
Dinghying --- everybody wears.
I also have a twit filter requirement. If I have one of "those guys" who is
all clubfooted and stumbling around on a boat - or drinking too much. Then
they will wear a lifejacket. (I may have overlooked other circumstances).
Kids - only when outside but with kids it's hard to tell where they will be
from one minute to the next.
We carry SOSPenders inflatables (the long ones) as our primary jackets. We
also now have a pair of USCGAux summer mesh Stearns type III's as our
primary backups. These are the same as the regular CG use. But they are
still a little bulky and are stored away. We carry six other traditional
type III PFD's in storage on the bridge. The SOSPenders are hung in the
main cabin on a coat hook like a sweater for easy access. They are so
comfortable, we often forget to take them off. So that's a good thing. I
have found people staring at me in a dockside restaurant and realized that
I'm still wearing my inflatable.
In fact the SOSPenders inflatables have changed my thinking about
lifejackets and I will tend to wear these far more often than I ever did
before. Get the blue ones so you don't even look like you're wearing a PFD
<G>.
Joe Engel
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