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Originally Posted by Seeker
Funny to me but under NH law sailboards are not required to have pfds (unless a 12 year old is operating). This isn't referring to the old type of sailboards I grew up with just the type where you stand up to operate it and if you fall off the whole rig, sail, mast and boom, falls into the water.
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A PFD can force you up
under the sail, which has just
excluded your air supply.
The World Olympics changed their
mandatory PFD rules when one twin brother of the two-brother crew drowned
under the sail—unable to get any air!
