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10 So I'm finally going to buy a PFD I might wear (Read 7342 times)
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Re: So I'm finally going to buy a PFD I might wear
Reply #10 - Aug 10th, 2012 at 2:29am
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I just bought a new pfd this year and absolutely love the stearns paddling vest I picked up at Cabelas. I guess its made for fly fishing in mind, but with the design basically a paddling vest with a ton of useful pockets it fits my use perfectly
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Reply #11 - Oct 25th, 2012 at 4:34pm
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A near miss for a couple of outdoorsmen.  Received this email from a paddling partner this morning.

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Reply #12 - Oct 26th, 2012 at 12:58pm
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experience is no bar to stupidity    a pfd might have kept them warmer, but wouldn't have gotten them to shore in apparantly very strong tides.  even if they hadn't flipped the canoe over, they might still have gotten washed out to sea ?  so underestimating the force/power of the tides was thier biggest mistake.
  
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Reply #13 - Oct 28th, 2012 at 1:25pm
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flat water canoeing / kayaking i wear a self inflating pfd, the kind with the co2 cartridge. i find it very comfortable and often times still have it on many hours after paddling. Everything else i've tried so far, i make up excuses to take it off.
  
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