What is the best Coast Guard Approved Lifejacket for riding...?

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  • yellowMIL
    • Dec 2007
    • 40

    • charlotte

    • 2006 San 220 TE 1990 SNCB

    What is the best Coast Guard Approved Lifejacket for riding...?

    Looking to pickup a newer style Lifejacket, who makes the best and what is everybody wearing now.....
    If not Coast Guard approved why..?
    Wakeboard / Surf / Ski.....
  • Chexi
    1,000 Post Club Member
    • Jan 2025
    • 2119

    • Austin

    • 2000 SAN

    #2
    Hyperlite Side entry. Feels as close to a non USCGA vest as you can get. Great mobility, lots of padding for those tough falls, and lots of buoyancy.
    Now
    2000 SAN

    Previously
    1999 Air Nautique
    1996 Tige Pre-2000
    1989 Lowe 24' Pontoon / Johnson 100HP outboard

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    • mdvalant
      • Jan 2010
      • 155

      • IA

      • '90 Ski Nautique '00 Sport Nautique 75th

      #3
      For non USCGA I wear Jet Pilot Attack vests.

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      • GoBig
        Senior Member of PLANETNAUTIQUE
        • Apr 2008
        • 551

        • Santa Cruz, CA


        #4
        I've always used O'Neill. They are the original neoprene company and have been making wetsuits and the like since the 1950's. Quality is second to none.
        2003 SANTE

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        • 210GA
          • Aug 2008
          • 282

          • Cartersville, Georgia

          • 2008 SANTE 210

          #5
          I'm not on the flesh tone life jackets

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          • Chexi
            1,000 Post Club Member
            • Jan 2025
            • 2119

            • Austin

            • 2000 SAN

            #6
            I used to wear non-USCGA vests due to the greater range of motion, but after bruising my ribs pretty bad, I sought and eventually found the Hyperlite side entry. It is close to my Watson non-USCGA in freedom of motion, but takes the impacts way better.
            Now
            2000 SAN

            Previously
            1999 Air Nautique
            1996 Tige Pre-2000
            1989 Lowe 24' Pontoon / Johnson 100HP outboard

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            • yellowMIL
              • Dec 2007
              • 40

              • charlotte

              • 2006 San 220 TE 1990 SNCB

              #7
              thanks for the help....

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