Everyone should where life jackets. Read the Coast Guard report from Dauphin Island Race Disaster. Nobody wearing a life jacket died.
NOYC should require all boat users of NOYC boats to wear life jackets 100% of the time.
I saw SYC Patrol II out in May and one person on the boat, in shape healthy middle age person and good swimmer was wearing a life jacket.
We need our sailors and power boat operartors using club boats to be required to wear a good life jacket.
You hardly ever read about someone dying wearing a life jacket when on the water. Let's manage the risk.