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    Kids lifejackets group test: 6 models take the plunge to find the best

    • October 28, 2019

    Inflatable kids lifejackets have come onto the market over the last few years. With their slimline and grown-up designs, they are a far cry from the rigid and bulky items…

    How well does your lifejacket work? We put 3 offshore models to the test

    • January 11, 2017

    As I plunge into the sea off the east coast of Iceland, the water temperature shows 6°C and the cold is enough to take the breath away. I am wearing…

    Working on the foredeck in heavy weather

    On too long a lead: how your lifejacket harness could kill you

    • December 28, 2015

    How the lifejacket/harness combination we rely on at sea could prove fatal

    Spinlock’s Lume-On

    Why Spinlock’s Lume-On, a device that illuminates lifejackets, won 2015’s biggest marine design award

    • November 20, 2015

    The concept behind the Lume-On is such a simple one in fact that I’m sure other manufacturers will have sighed a collective ‘Doh’ when it was announced at METS in…

    Wearing a lifejacket

    Wearing a lifejacket or not is a judgement call. We are being brainwashed, argues Skip Novak

    • June 24, 2015

    I first realised there was something amiss when several years ago on a visit to the Hamble River during a dead calm weekend afternoon. I noticed that everyone on every…

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