comp vests that float

(wakecourage) · (wakecourage) **Join Date: Aug 2008** 06-23-2009, 8:50 AM

Looking for a comp vest that will still keep me a float. Im sure there are some comp vest that will still float but just don't meet all the specs to become coast guard approved. help please!

(behindtheboat) · (behindtheboat) **Join Date: Aug 2006** 06-23-2009, 8:59 AM

why not get an approved vest that is super light and thin, then you don't have to worry?

my helium swat vests have been great, and when the po-po rolls up, I smile.

The floatiest comp vest i've seen was the old intensity's, Jet Pilot seems to have some floaty ones as well.

(Message edited by behindtheboat on June 23, 2009)

(andy_nintzel)

I would suggest A Helium USCGA Approved they rock!

(wakecourage) · (wakecourage) **Join Date: Aug 2008** 06-23-2009, 9:45 AM

i curently have a SWAT vest that i bought about 3 years ago....It has to be the bulkiest heaviest vest on the market!!! Have they gotten that much better?

(behindtheboat)

they have improved quite a bit, but with regards to the USCGA vests, they are the least bulky, lightests vests I have seen or tried on. Non-approved vests that "float" will probably be about the same bulkiness/weight.

Where I live, riders must wear an approved vest, so I got the best approved vest I could find

(deepsouthryda)

i just got a jet pilot skyhawk on close out and it is amazing. Everything you want in a comp vest as far as flexibility, comfort, thin, and it floats great

(wakecourage) · (wakecourage) **Join Date: Aug 2008** 06-23-2009, 10:45 AM

anyone try the helium division cascade vest? Its a comp vest but helium says its the most bouyant comp vest

(johnm_ttu) · (johnm_ttu) **Join Date: Jul 2005** 06-23-2009, 10:52 AM

Quite a few people have commented to me that the Billabong Modernizm floats better than Jet-Pilot.

(hillbilly) · (hillbilly) **Join Date: Aug 2002** 06-23-2009, 9:15 PM

CWB Faction floats pretty good.

(akdivision) · (akdivision) **Join Date: Mar 2007** 06-26-2009, 11:10 AM

My new billabong nova comp vest floats great!

(innov8) · (innov8) **Join Date: May 2005** 06-26-2009, 11:59 AM

No comp vest floats great when you knock the air out of your lungs, buy a new JP Murray CGA or the Hyperlite side entry CGA, both nice and thin and will float you.

(bskennn) · (bskennn) **Join Date: Jun 2009** 06-28-2009, 9:50 PM

i just ordered a billabong Modernizm i hope it floats lol

(irishrider92) · (irishrider92) **Join Date: Jun 2009** 06-30-2009, 1:27 PM

Got a Billabong Modernizm at May. Have to say its not the best but then again I basically sink in water. Did a water lifesaving course and the only guy who could team with me was a competitive swimmer!