loose canisters - I feel left out

[ShipsWoofy]

Mine have never moved, not once have I needed to tighten up loose life-jacket gas canisters.

It is not as though I do not use the jackets, for the last two years I have insisted, even on sunny calm days that jackets are worn in the dinghy. I even don the jacket if working on the hull or checking mooring warps etc. On average they are getting dumped in and out of the car, worn, thrown around the boat twice a week.

I have 4 manual jackets, 2 XM (main) and a pair from the boat jumble woman, you know the ones... I also have 4 old type beauforts which have also never come loose.

So, am I just lucky, or is this a failing of auto jackets?

I am interested in this for my own knowledge, I have made a quick poll..

 

[tome]

It's particularly a problem with Hammar releases, not really so much with the others

BTW, doesn't having so many different types make safety briefings a bit complex?

 

[ShipsWoofy]

well, the 4 main jackets are basically identical in operation, Tan made the crotch straps so they are the same on both.

The old non foldaway types are there just in-case, they are stored up under the saloon benches, I doubt they will ever come out, but if we have guests who do not have their own jackets then we do have them.

We rarely sail with non sailing guests so it would be expensive to buy jackets never to be used. I might consider buying new jackets in a few years as ours get older, they go down the conveyor belt, throw out the old-old ones. I suppose I could look out for some 2nd hand ones too.