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Do these self inflating types work with a
compressed air cylinder?? If so, how many times can you inflate them per
cylinder, and are the cylinders refillable?? Or throw away??? Are they like the
air BB guns.. Those little cylinders like that??? Chuck
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Sent: Sunday, August 20, 2006 5:19
PM
Subject: Re: [VFB] PFD's
I wear an automatic inflating pfd when I am solo. I went with
the waist model rather than the over the shoulder. It's the first thing
I put on when I get into the boat.
On 8/19/06, DonO
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
An
article about a flyfisherman that drowned caught my
attention. They were
striper fishing and got caught up so they
didn't notice the weather moving
in. The transom of their
boat got a wave over it that killed the battery
and bilge pump (?), and
by the time they got the motor started, they were
near the
rocks. In their attempts to get away from the rocks, they took a
wave over the transom and it killed the motor (again, ?). The
boat sank and
both ended up in the water. One had a PFD
(Personal Floatation Device) and
was saved four hours
later. One was not wearing one and drowned.
I've been
searching for the perfect PFD for all occasions, and it's hard to
narrow
it down to one. I have many, but I'm thinking of an inflatable
for
fishing 'unencumbered'. Has anyone had good/bad
experiences with
inflatables?
DonO
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