West
Marine Offshore 4000
PFD was armed and stowed inside its original plastic front/mesh back package on the upper crew berth. Heavy rains somehow found their way inside the
boat (that never happens
) and wet the bunk and the
gear on it.
No problemo... I'll just take these soggy things topside and let 'ol Sol dry them out.
Funny thing but 3 hours later I went up and found the
PFD had inflated - it looked like 10lbs of s*** stuffed into a 3lb sack. Hmm - I don't remember falling
overboard.. Maybe I'm not supposed to inflate this thing inside the package?
Go figure...
Let's see -
water plus sun = steam, so the little auto-inflator dissolving pill did its thing and fired the cartridge. Dang it....
At least the thing held air the way it should have.... I should start a new TV show.. ASSV 'America's Stupidest Sailors Videos'....