Don't like my 12 year old SOS suspender inflatable life jackets. They have a built-in harness but keep catching things like winches, winch handles and always at just the wrong time. I'll be checking out a newer, more streamlined set at the boat show.
I have the Lifesling and keep a 3:1 handy billy aboard if I need to haul up an MOB. The plan is to use a boom bail on the very end of the boom for that purpose. Chuck Resolute 1990 C&C 34R Broad Creek, Magothy River, Md ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rick Brass via CnC-List" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Cc: "Rick Brass" <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, September 20, 2015 4:00:20 PM Subject: Re: Stus-List - Inflable life jacket - inflation One has to wonder about a cruising boat without a swim ladder. How would you get into and out of the dinghy? Anyway, on Imzadi I have a snatch block to attach to the end of the boom. Use the Lifesling to get the MOB alongside, then route the line for the Lifesling through the snatch block and to a cockpit or cabin top winch. Haul them up and swing the boom inboard. Also, the main halyards on both my boats are long enough to go through a snatch block on the boom and then down to the surface of the water and still reach the winch. That was a suggestion from a friend in the CG Auxiliary a number of years ago and seemed like a good idea. Rick Brass Imzadi C&C 38 mk 2 la Belle Aurore C&C 25 mk1 Washington, NC From: CnC-List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jim Reinardy via CnC-List Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2015 10:01 PM To: [email protected] Cc: Jim Reinardy <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Stus-List - Inflable life jacket - inflation The theory for getting her back on board was interesting. The boat is an Ericson Cruising 36 with very high topsides and no swim ladder. We tied off a line on a stern dockline cleat, draped the line in the water and loaded the other end on a winch. The boat owner was hoping she could stand on the line and just get pulled up on the winch. In practice, we had a difficult time getting her to a point where she could do this. We had a lifesling with the tackle on board if we had needed it. I have a lifesling on my boat, but not the lifting tackle. I am thinking harder about making that an offseason purchase. Thanks for the thoughtful replies, everyone! Jim Sent from my iPad On Sep 17, 2015, at 3:32 PM, Graham Collins via CnC-List < [email protected] > wrote: 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: <blockquote> 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 Sent from Mail for Windows 10 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] > wrote: <blockquote> 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! ---------- Original Message ---------- From: Indigo via CnC-List < [email protected] > To: " [email protected] " < [email protected] > Cc: Indigo < [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] > wrote: <blockquote> 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 <blockquote> On Sep 15, 2015, at 10:29 PM, Indigo via CnC-List < [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. 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