Bouyancy Aids

Whats the point in one that makes you float face down if your unconcious? more dangerous then anything.

But bouyancy aids are just that they help you float. If you want to float face up you need a life jacket which by design will bring you up face up.

Persoanlly I use a high cut jobby from our French friends at Decathlon, give me unrivalled movement (I had a Gul Garda before) and it was very wallet friendly.

Paul

I've switched to using my old vest type aid (like a waistcoat but made out of strips filled with litttle plastic bubbles).  Fantastic, so much freedom of movement, so light and so easy to get back up onto the centreboard when capsised.  In other words - so much safer!  They don't make them anymore but I'm leaving my closed cell foam high cut jobby at home.  I can't see over it to see if my hook is snagged, I can't get it up over the edge of my centreboard when I've capsised and anyway it rides up under my ears and nose when I'm in the water.

When will they stop measuring the effectiveness of a bouyancy aid by its bouyancy instead of its practicality.  Will somebody please make a modern version with a large back panel of closed cell foam that goes down to the waist and just a small thin layer at the front so as not to be bulky?

I know we've been here before but I can't find it in the forum.