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Volume 29
Number 2
January 15, 2003
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Life Rafts

Winslow still leads, but the gap narrows. Viking's RescYou Pro earns a Best Buy.


Boarding a liferaft in a PFD is no easy matter
in a well-lighted wave pool, even for a person
in good shape. Design of boarding aids is crit-
ical.

It's been only a couple of years since our exhaustive series of life raft reviews ("Life Rafts: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly" in the May, June, July, August, and September 2000 issues), but there have been some developments worth covering.

Our current round of tests were held, as before, as a collaboration between Practical Sailor, Powerboat Reports, Aviation Consumer, and Equipped to Survive, the Web-based publication of the non-profit Equipped To Survive Foundation.…
 
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