This is crazy...
U.S. ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS who manages Pine Flat lake (near Fresno, CA) among many other lakes in CA is requiring life jacket wear for most boaters next year at Pine Flat:
When Pine Flat implements the new life jacket policy in April 2011, life jacket wear (U.S. Coast Guard-approved life jackets) will be required for:
1. Everyone swimming more than 100 feet away from the shoreline.
2. Everyone aboard all non-motorized vessels, regardless of length, at all times.
3. Everyone aboard motorized vessels up to 16-feet in length, at all times.
4. Everyone aboard motorized vessels 16-feet in length or larger when the vessel is underway
http://www.spk.usace.army.mil/organi...dy_31AUG10.pdf