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Not quite. I race my fair share of tipsy boats, I never leave the dock without my pfd on and strapped accordingly on those boats. When I race on big boats I'm one of the ones who will be more likely to wear it than not. But I have been on a boat in a drifter race where the heat was oppressive...

A PFD may be comfortable to wear shape-wise, but there's no getting around the fact that that it adds a layer of clothing/insulation. On a hot, muggy, windless day you don't want another layer of insulation, in fact you're probably at greater risk of heat stroke from wearing that PFD than...

Blanket statements about safety devices are just inappropriate. Conditions are different place to place, on SF bay or the great lakes in the spring, the water is cold. Certainly on the lakes in the spring it's cold enough that you will be dead in minutes with or without a PFD. Different boats...

Severe weather has different meanings depending where you are. To some areas who rarely see much more than 20, a storm of 35 is of note. Meanwhile somewhere what regularly sees 30-35 and all the boats are set for that won't make much fuss for a sub-40 knot prediction. Never mind that fronts and...

Shitty. Hope we get good news from the organization soon.