Part of the requirements for the Pacific Cup (per the ISAF Offshore Special Regulations) are that you test your lifejacket's ability to retain air. I've never done that; I've auto-inflated it to test that mechanism but never inflated it and waited awhile to assure that its still filled 30 minutes later.
So I manually inflated it this weekend just to check and learned a few important things.
- It meets all requirements (including strobe light that I will not install until just before the race)
- It is impossible to put on once inflated
- It only takes about 10-15 seconds to manually inflate
- I look *good* in yellow
Since we won't have everyone's lifejackets at the inspection, we're all certifying that our PFDs meet the requirements. Beyond that reason, I'm glad I did it just for the fun of walking around my house in a lifejacket.
4 comments:
Don't you look fetching. :)
It's the yellow...it's very flattering.
nay, damn good in yellow!
You should have gone to the store /shopping in it. That wold have been the real test for how smashing you look!
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