Life jacket question

[mshunter77]

Invest in the inflateable ones and wear it all the time, it is a small investment that can pay big rewards.

[Seymore]

[Wingman]

We have to wear our auto inflate pfd's anytime we are in our work boats. Kept me from getting drowned by a drunk one night in Lake Ferguson. As soon as we hit the water, it inflated. Once you get used to wearing it, it's really not a bother. Heck of a lot cooler than a big pfd with buckles.

We also had a drowning during duck season. Guy had his waders on. I don't want to go into details but he had almost gotten them off before he drowned. He was in about 17 FOW.

[mshunter77]

20 year old drowned down here on the coast this weekend. Was wade fishing and fell in a hole and I guess his waders filled up. Sad story.

[deltadukman]

People with inflatables. How sensitive are they to water? Meaning will they be ok if I put them inside a musty hatch in my boat and its parked in my garage in 300% MS humidity?

[Wingman]

Yes. Mine stays either in the boat or truck. Heat and humidity never have affected mine. I am told the older ones had problems though.

[mudsucker]

[champcaller]

[Seymore]

[Wingman]

Mustang MD3183

Checked tons of boats over the holiday weekend. One guy had to move all of his stuff off of the front hatch, open the lid, and then extract a tackle box that was the same size as the hatch hole to get to his PFD's. When he put them back he put all of the PFD's in there and the box on top of them. I suggested that as long as it took him to get everything out of the way and to the PFD's while he was being checked, that it would probably take much longer in an emergency. You could see the light bulb turn on in his head, so he rearranged things a bit.

[Smoke68]