SPINLOCK DECKVEST LITE
Price £109.95 spinlock.co.uk
Pros: stylish, slimline feel, easy to repack and few things to snag.
Cons: might feel a little restrictive or suit larger bodies.
This is a stylish, comfortable, sculpted jacket at a competitive price point.
It really took some effort to get it to activate manually, so it’s worth checking the wearer is strong enough to do this (it does auto-inflate but the wearer should always be able to activate a lifejacket manually in case auto-inflation fails).
It has one of the brightest bladders in a fluorescent yellow, but when in the water the waist buckle slipped too easily, became loose and needed retensioning. Double check the buckles and their friction mechanism as new webbing straps have a tendency to slip
