COASTAL + OFFSHORE LIFEJACKETS

ntil just over a decade ago, I never wore a lifejacket. Throughout the ’80s, ’90s and 2000s I casually went about never wearing one and never worrying about it. Until one day I was rowing out to my mooring with my dog after a long day at work in the city, in a 2.4m round-tail dinghy. In the dark. A friend and sailing instructor commented on my lack of lifejacket. ‘Ebb tide runs fast through here,’ he said