When do you wear a lifejacket?

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When do you wear a lifejacket? Always, when underway, or almost never....?

Are your lifejackets checked regularly or every season, or are they rather neglected?
 
But having said I hardly ever wear one now I have a crew to set an example to and (hopfully) to fish me out if I fall in I am going to try and get in the habit of wearing it all the time, sailing solo there did not seam much piont!
 
You missed the option "I am a racer and wear my lifejacket when the race committee flys flag yankee, or at night, when alone on deck, or when reefed as per the RORC rules"

Which to be fair are generally good guidelines and have got racers into good habits at night and in the stronger stuff.
 
Or, when do you wear heavy seaboots and superstitiously refuse to learn how to swim?
When sailing on a square rigger that hasn't a hope of stopping and picking you up if you fall overboard.
 
I wear and my crew wears lifejackets and harnesses at night on deck, during the day when roughers, in the dinghy at all times.
 
At all times on deck. It is a rule taht is easy to follow and enforce with all the usual family crew. Then there are no debates about it, and decisions to take. Plenty of otehr decision to think about, like playing with the sails etc.

Why do peeps find life jaclets uncomfortable?
 
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At all times on deck. It is a rule taht is easy to follow and enforce with all the usual family crew. Then there are no debates about it, and decisions to take. Plenty of otehr decision to think about, like playing with the sails etc.

Why do peeps find life jaclets uncomfortable?

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+1. Simple rule alright!
 
Always:

At night.
In the Dinghy.
When working out of the cockpit (includes sail work and mooring/bething).
When the skipper or helm says so.
When a crewmember wants to.

All my lifejackets have harnesses and lines, and I ask crew to carry the lines at all times and clip on when needed.

J
 
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Eating a meal in the cockpit at anchor?
Going for a swim?
Sunbathing?

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A) For non swimmers and the nervous, yes.
B) Well then they're in the water aren't they /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif
C) I have a boat, not a sun lounger!!
 
As a river based mobo with children on board the rules are:

1. When tidal everybody waers a lifejacket, even below decks or on the bridge
2. When working on deck all children must and adults may choose
3. When in the dinghy all must wear a lifejacket

Children get foam waistcoat jobs, adults are on inflatables with pull cords.
 
I did the Basic Sea Survival a few weeks ago. I had done something similar over 20 years ago. . At the end of the session we took our life jackets off and jumped in the pool, clearly we needed them.

Our Instructor summed this up very well , saying " its clear that when in the water life jackets are a necessity, on board they may not be but I will leave it up to you, how you make the transition if you unexpectedly find yourself over board"

Its all about risk and how we manage it.
 
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Children get foam waistcoat jobs, adults are on inflatables with pull cords. ......

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Just to be pedantic:

The waistcoats jobs as you put it are not 'lifejackets' they are 'buoyancy aides' and are built and designed for a different purpose.
 
Those pontoons can get pretty doddgy.!

The size, stability of boat , sea conditions, day, night and weather all play a part in this .

There is not, one rule fits all.
 
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