I did a safety at sea course, which involved spending some quality time
in the pool wearing full gear and my PFD (inflated). I found it
difficult to maneuver with it fully inflated, but could let some out and
was able to do the required stuff (swim, climb into the liferaft) with
it on. For me a crotch strap add-on does make it easier as it keeps
things lower, I tried it both ways.
As for re-boarding, a ladder isn't much good if it does not get a couple
of rungs under water - not many of us can lift our body weight and wet
gear up with our arms, when already exhausted. We also bought a
lifesling and have tackle ready in case someone has to be hoisted aboard.
Graham Collins
Secret Plans
C&C 35-III #11
On 2015-09-17 2:53 PM, Jim Reinardy via CnC-List wrote:
This is a bit of a tangent, but I wanted to get some feedback on a
recent event in our marina that has a lot of us talking.
We have some friends that own a cruising boat. The wife has been a
little hesitant about sailing in part because of poor swimming ability
causing a general fear of water. She decided to confront her fears
head on by volunteering to do a live person overboard drill. We got a
bunch of people on board their boat and enlisted a smaller boat as a
chase boat. She put on an inflatable life jacket with an expiring
sensor and jumped in the water in the harbor. It was at the end of a
stretch of hot weather so there were fewer fears about hypothermia and
the waves were negligible, which is as good as it gets for Lake Michigan.
The PFD inflated immediately and brought her to the surface just fine,
but she found that the inflated bladder pretty much immobilized her.
She could not lift her head properly or move her arms to maneuver to
the throwables in the water. One of the people in the chase boat
ultimately jumped in to get her over to her boat and we got her back
up on deck, but it was a more tense process than any of us expected.
Our friend confronting her fears was actually satisfied with the
result, she was able to remain calm and ultimately got back on the
boat without injury, but it raised some doubts about inflatable PFD’s
with the rest of us.
Anyone have experience with actually deploying an inflatable PFD?
Were you able to maneuver? Did you need to partially deflate the bladder?
As a side note, we have gone looking for a good quality non-inflatable
PFD with a harness and crotch strap, which is becoming a requirement
for some races now and pretty much came up empty at this point.
Thanks,
Jim Reinardy
C&C 30-2 “Firewater”
Milwaukee, WI
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*From: *Kevin Driscoll via CnC-List
*Sent: *Wednesday, September 16, 2015 5:08 PM
*To: *[email protected]
*Cc: *Kevin Driscoll
*Subject: *Re: Stus-List - Inflable life jacket with harness
recommendation
My Kong tether has snap shackle for self eject.
On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 11:53 AM Danny Haughey via CnC-List
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
don't forget to sign up for the PYacht email list before you place
your order and they'll give a 5% off code on a purchase over $100
five bucks is five bucks!
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From: Indigo via CnC-List <[email protected]
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To: "[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>"
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
Cc: Indigo <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
Subject: Re: Stus-List - Inflable life jacket with harness
recommendation
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2015 08:28:37 -0400
I don't recall - one of the early posts on the subject. At the
price of these at pyacht I might be tempted to replace my "spare"
old style tethers.
--
Jonathan
Indigo C&C 35III
SOUTHPORT CT
On Sep 16, 2015, at 08:03, Frederick G Street via CnC-List
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Mine does. Which one are you looking at? I’ve got the “Y”
tether with one six-foot leg and one three-foot leg; both of
those have the positive-action carabiners. The harness end
has a snap shackle with a pull-lanyard. Like this:
http://www.pyacht.com/cgi-bin/pagegen.pl?pr+kng283sete.htm
— Fred
Fred Street -- Minneapolis
S/V /Oceanis/ (1979 C&C Landfall 38) -- Bayfield, WI
On Sep 15, 2015, at 10:29 PM, Indigo via CnC-List
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
I am surprised to see that the Kong tether as illustrated
does not have a snap-shackle for use at the harness end to
enable quick disconnect if needed. With any tension,
you'd need to cut the tether in order to get free if you
were, say, trapped under water.
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