Peter, You seem to be asking some legitimate questions here, and you are presenting them in a civil tone, so I suppose the least I can do is answer them for you. When I am kayak surfing I leave my pfd on the beach. I grew up body surfing the waves of Southern California, and even though I never come out of my boat, if it should someday happen I can assure you that I (not necessarily you, or anyone else you understand) would be MUCH more comfortable swimming in large gnarly surf without a pfd on then I would be with one. As far as touring goes, in the past I usually kept my pfd in the cockpit under my legs. These days I have switched to paddling a CLC Northbay with an ocean cockpit and a mere 20" beam, so I have very little (read that "none") room in my cockpit for anything at all. I now must resort to carrying safety items, food and water and such in a deck bag. And yes, I wear my pfd simply because I haven't any place else to put it. So all of this noise I am making on the Paddlewise list is really more out of principle then practice :-) While I cannot show you that wearing your pfd is unnecessary, neither can you show me that wearing one is! The difference here is that I am not asking you to not wear one. You (or at least the others) on the other hand are insisting that I do! Scott So.Cal. *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Tue Apr 23 2002 - 05:44:28 PDT
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