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Chinook NRS vest is what you need. It’s lightweight and comfortable enough to wear all day. Everyone I know who fishes kayak tournaments have started using these instead of inflatables.
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Chinook NRS vest is what you need. It’s lightweight and comfortable enough to wear all day. Everyone I know who fishes kayak tournaments have started using these instead of inflatables.
§ 160.077-3 Required to be worn.
(a) A Type V hybrid PFD may be used to meet the Coast Guard PFD carriage requirements of subpart 25.25 of this chapter, and 33 CFR part 175, only if the PFD is used in accordance with any requirements on the approval label. PFDs marked “REQUIRED TO BE WORN” must be worn whenever the vessel is underway and the intended wearer is not within an enclosed space.
(b) If hybrid PFD's with the marking “REQUIRED TO BE WORN” are not worn under the conditions stated in paragraph (a) of this section, other approved PFD's will have to be provided to comply with the applicable carriage requirements in 33 CFR part 175 and subpart 25.25 of this chapter.
(c) The following PFD's must be marked “REQUIRED TO BE WORN” as specified in § 160.077-31:
(1) Each Type V recreational hybrid PFD.
(2) Each Type V commercial hybrid PFD.
[CGD 78-174, 50 FR 33928, Aug. 22, 1985. Redesignated and amended by CGD 78-174, 60 FR 2486, Jan. 9, 1995]
Subpart 160.076 - Inflatable Recreational Personal Flotation Devices
§ 160.076-9 Conditional approval.
(a) A conditionally approved inflatable PFD may be used to meet the Coast Guard PFD carriage requirements of 33 CFR part 175 only if the PFD is used in accordance with any requirements on the approval label. PFDs marked “Approved only when worn” must be worn whenever the vessel is underway and the intended wearer is not within an enclosed space if the PFD is intended to be used to satisfy the requirements of 33 CFR part 175. Note: Additional approved PFDs may be needed to satisfy the requirements of 33 CFR part 175 if “Approved only when worn” PFDs are not worn.
I have a Cabela’s one and can’t attest to the auto deploy because I haven’t went swimming in it, but I can attest to the string working because Ive had to replace the CO2 twice after pulling it out of the hatch to throw it in and the string snagging something. It’s interesting trying to put one on that’s already inflated….
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I had two nice ones with my first boat. Left them in my under deck storage, and parked the boat with the bow downhill(not thinking). One good rain and they both deployed. I like to have never gotten them out of the hatch
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Those kayak vests are the way to go. I keep buying them and they keep disappearing, but they are the way to go.
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