"Da Chief" wrote in message
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Sospenders, and other inflatable pfd's, are like different pickup trucks.
Some swear by them, others swear at them (or because of them). I have
Sospenders and Mustang models and like both. One caution though, if you
get
the automatic kind then you'd better stay dry or it will go off on you.
First trip out with my Sospenders it rained horribly all day. No problem.
Afterwards I laid it down in the back of the truck (inside the camper
shell). While driving home I noticed this big beach ball in the back of my
truck. Moisture had worked its way over, under, and into the release and
it
did its job of inflating. Cost me $15-20 to refit. Since then I hang up
both
models if worn in the rain. It's a small inconvenience, but I'd rather
have
the automatic feature in case I, or a partner, should be ill or hurt if
I/we
fall in.

LOL. I've had mine go off a couple times. When the guy doing the carpet on
my boat wanted to see what the little cord did, when I left one on the back
deck as I manuevered inot a channel and a branch brushed it off the boat,
when I left them laying on the sole of the boat and it rained, when my kid
wanted to see what the little cord did...

I wish my recharge kits were as cheap as yours.