{"id":1514,"date":"2016-01-26T10:31:02","date_gmt":"2016-01-26T16:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/?p=1514"},"modified":"2016-01-29T21:59:49","modified_gmt":"2016-01-30T03:59:49","slug":"apba-vh-lifejacket-recertification-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/apba-vh-lifejacket-recertification-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"APBA V&#038;H Lifejacket recertification issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"t pg-1m0 pg-1x0 pg-1h1 pg-1y0 pg-1ff1 pg-1fs0 pg-1fc0 pg-1sc0 pg-1ls0 pg-1ws0\">\n<p><em>From APBA V&amp;H Chief Inspector &#8211; <a href=\"mailto:rich@pelican-point.com\">Rich Evans<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>There seems to be a great deal of consternation at the moment about re-certification of lifejackets.<br \/>\nThree areas that cover lifejackets are the manufacturing standards as rewritten in 2013, the General Safety-Racing Rules, and the Vintage By-Laws Article VI Paragraph 13.B. The By-Laws may be found on the APBA website.<br \/>\nAt points in the past, it was required to re-certify your jacket on a regular basis. This is no longer required unless (a) you wish to do, or (b) your inspector feels that your safety would be best served by re-certification.<br \/>\nThe reference in the Vintage By-Laws to a re-certification date is made simply to establish the fact that, if the jacket is re-certified, it is properly labeled by the person who did the work.<br \/>\nVintage By-Laws are found at:\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apba.org\/sites\/all\/files\/documents\/2015-V%26H.pdf\">https:\/\/www.apba.org\/sites\/all\/files\/documents\/2015-V%26H.pdf<\/a><br \/>\nGeneral Safety-Racing Rules: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apba.org\/sites\/all\/files\/documents\/2016-GSR-GRR_0.pdf\">https:\/\/www.apba.org\/sites\/all\/files\/documents\/2016-GSR-GRR_0.pdf<\/a><br \/>\nLifejacket specs are at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apba.org\/sites\/all\/files\/documents\/2013-APBA%20LIFE%20JACKET%20BASIC%20MANUFACTURING%20SPECIFICATIONS.pdf\">http:\/\/www.apba.org\/sites\/all\/files\/documents\/2013-APBA%20LIFE%20JACKET%20BASIC%20MANUFACTURING%20SPECIFICATIONS.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/apba-vh-lifejacket-recertification-issues\/acme-discount-life-vests\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1515\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1515\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/diver.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"476\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/diver.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/diver-126x150.jpg 126w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From APBA V&amp;H Chief Inspector &#8211; Rich Evans: There seems to be a great deal of consternation at the moment about re-certification of lifejackets. Three areas that cover lifejackets are the manufacturing standards as rewritten in 2013, the General Safety-Racing Rules, and the Vintage By-Laws Article VI Paragraph 13.B. The &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1514"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1523,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1514\/revisions\/1523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}