Does you lifejacket have a pressure release valve?

[FishyInverness]

I don't know about other models, but the Spinlock Deckvest has a "double green" indicator that shows through a window in the LJ when it is fully armed.

Due to the nature of the sailing I do, I tend to wear a LJ a lot of the time that I am sailing. Personal preference.

Also due to the nature of the sailing I do, I am often out in **** weather, so the LJ gets wet, and often salty.

My standard practice is to bring the LJ home, inflate it orally, rinse it and hang it to dry. Then repack it. Pretty much every time I go sailing.

For me it is like any other piece of equipment. I wash my clothes when they're dirty, rinse my drysuit after it gets salty. Then let them dry before putting them away.

I get the feeling a lot of people just take off their (wet, salty) lifejackets and hang them in a damp locker. Not the best way to treat something that you have bought to help save your life.

All in my (very rarely humble) opinion.

I like people like you!

Regrettably the latter camp (through inexperience and lack of knowledge of what it is they have bought perhaps) are quite common, and often then blame the retailer when the Lifejacket goes off in the cupboard at home "It was nowehere near water at the time, it's faulty!"

I am very fond of the UM Pro system that Spinlock use, on the last LJ redesign we changed the firing system on our jackets to use this one now, a good quick visual check to see that everything is as it should be.