Connecticut requires canoeists and kayakers to wear PFD's from Nov 1st to April 1st (I'm pretty sure these are the dates). Guess it's so the police can find your body easier in case you weren't wearing a wet/drysuit. "Sailboat Restorations, Inc." wrote: > I believe some states do have such a regulation (in fact I believe > Connecticut may be one of them, but I'm not certain). It may not be in the > federal regs, but federal law is not the only law in the US. > Mark -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wayne Smith wsmith16_at_snet.net Check out my sea kayaking & homebrewing page: http://pages.cthome.net/wsmith16/home.html *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced/forwarded outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Sat Sep 09 2000 - 23:08:25 PDT
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