Chuck wrote: >I am not interested in the warm water debate! It is worth noting that >the dissenters always jump back to the warm water environment. In >the cold water environment, safe? The boater with or without the pfd >doesn't matter. The swimmer will soon be missing! Where could >John be? Good point so it is worth consideringt the cold water environment. I live in Nova Scotia and when the surf is up the area in front of our house is consdered a fine surf break. Then there are a bunch of surfers paddling their surf boards, standing up on their surf boards and swimming (They seem to fall off occasioanlly). They don't wear life jackets. Meanwhile we get a few kayakers in what look like whitewater boats to me also surfing. They wear lifejackets. So that brings me back to my question that Chuck did not answer. Maybe there is some other set of conditions worth investigating to get it answered. If Chuck isn't interested in answering my question maybe some one else can. Oh yes, keeping the life jacket on deck serves a useful purpose. You never can tell when you might run across someone who needs one more than yourself. Cheers John Winters *************************************************************************** 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 Fri Mar 23 2007 - 08:45:45 PDT
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