On Mon, 17 Nov 2008 10:46:36 -0000, "Trevor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Well, your posts are very encouraging for me and I would fully agree with >your caveats as well, they seem most sensible; I might also consider >investing in an automatically inflating life jacket. A lot of Irish boaters wear automatically-inflating life-jackets all the time, even on canals. The automatic jobbies are much less bulky and much easier to wear than the padded flotation devices. Irish law requires that children wear them all the time when on the deck of a moving boat, and many parents feel that good example is the best way to get the kids to think of wearing lifejackets as the normal thing to do. On Saturday I was at the funeral of a boater who drowned in Shannon Harbour (canal basin at junction of Grand Canal with River Shannon) last week. He fell off his boat into the diamond formed by the bows of four boats (two pointing one way, two the other). His friend made a valiant effort to save him, but in vain. He may have hit his head; the cold may have killed him. bjg
