G'Day Pam, It's great to hear about your group practices. Clubs that acquire skill at running training sessions are worth their weight in gold. Like you, I carry flares in my PFD. The bags that I've come across tended to leak slightly after a lot of time practising in the water. I became concerned that the plastic bags were trapping moisture and humidity that might degrade the flares. I sometimes use a dry bag packed inside my PFD to hold a small emergency kit including a hand held dual smoke/flare and a few other small emergency items; a tethered water proof telephone bag for a pack of mini rocket flares and a separate tethered bag for an epirb. I'm trying out various ideas in which the epirb is either tethered to the bag or operable within a modified and tethered bag. The nice thing about bags is that they can be opened and dried out if they get a few drops of water inside. All the best, PeterO *************************************************************************** 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 Mon Nov 12 2007 - 00:14:30 PST
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