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If you google "flotation belt for swimming" you'll see a number of different models.

Parafunalia used to sell these a few years ago for about $25, and it seemed like it could cost about 12.95 at Walmart.

You know that for a while earlier this summer, Family Dollar was selling 48"x 4" diameter noodles for just one dollar, and these could easily be made into an el cheapo-depot swimmers belt by threading a rope down through the center hole, and cutting the length down to what's right for the user ...... and these would probably work pretty good.

People don't wear the pfd's because they are too hot and bulky for warm weather use, and on-board a motorboat their real need seems very remote, but out on a tippy-dippy small 13' sailboat, there's plenty incentive to wear one ..... plus even today on July 14, a pfd goes a long way to keeping one's body temp warm if you need to stay in the water for ......say......thirty minutes....while flip-flopping around with an upside-down sailboat.