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Re: A celebrity has died thread
« Reply #225 on: September 21, 2020, 02:24:52 pm »
I’m always dismayed at how few people wear life jackets out on the water.  I boat a lot, professionally for work and for pleasure, and always wear a life jacket on my boats, or even in the canoe. 
Yup. Nobody comes aboard the boats I usually drive without an inflatable PFD for adults and standard life-jackets for kids.  In the not so distant past on larger passenger vessels we didn't require this but occasionally parents would request their kids be given lifejackets, predictably these kids would seethe if they were the odd one out who had to wear one. Now of course that's all fine on deck but since you don't want anyone wearing flotation inside a boat for much the same reason you don't want them wearing seatbelts I tell parents their kids need to take life-jackets off when inside the cabin.  Naturally the kids take this as a personal slight now and don't want to be the odd one out.  I also notice there seems to be a cohort that are to big for kids conventional life-jackets and amongst which a certain wise-ass type can't resist popping off their inflatable vest.  We use them to troll for orca. Don't tie the line around their neck though, if you loop it under one arm they spin when you tow them about.

All that said, I spent almost 30 years on commercial fishing boats and the only times I wore a PFD (a cruiser suit) was on the deck of a trawler in the middle of winter, more to keep warm than anything.
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