Integrated trapeze harness & life jacket?

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klozhald

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Registered: Apr 19, 2011

Last visit: Feb 19, 2025

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Posted: May 23, 2020 - 05:11 PM

JohnESAnyway, they gave me an education on the USCG approval process. From what I remember it seems that the USCG has a mandate that a life jacket/preserver is just that and nothing else.

John is correct. A PFD can only be a PFD, and if you sew anything onto it you have destroyed the integrity of it in the Coast Guard's view.
Are you gonna get pulled over by the PFD police and fined? Probably not, but there are reasons why world-wide, all manufacturers of even the high-end inflatable PFDs do not combine them with other use harnesses.

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