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You won’t need this if you wear

your lifejacket all of the time

on the water– but many of us

don’t. The iFloat is a 75 Newton

personal fl oatation device, in

a small pouch, attached to a

belt. You wear it like a hip bag,

so in the summer there will be

no lifejacket tan-lines. While it

doesn’t offer any buoyancy to

an unconscious casualty, and

it’s not a lifejacket per se, it is

better then nothing and if you

fi nd a lifejacket too restrictive,

it could save your life.

All a man overboard has

to do is open the pouch, put

the lifejacket over their head,

and pull the toggle. The belt

is the belt of the fl otation

Patriotic deck shoes

Price £115.00 Contact Baltic Te l 023 8045 7272 Web http://www.baltic.se

device, and the defl ated

lifejacket goes over your

head as demonstrated by

thousands of airline cabin crew

on a daily basis. It will support

wearers from 40kg to 130kg

in bodyweight and also solves

the eternal problem to what to

do with your lifejacket when

you’ve taken the dinghy ashore

• just keep wearing it.

Most shaft propellers

require anodes, some

also need a rope cutter.

So why not combine

the two? That’s what

SALCA anode rope

cutter does. The serrated cutter is designed

to protect the propeller from getting

snarled up, the anode protects it from

galvanic corrosion.

The body of the cutter is a zinc anode,

while the cutting blades are durable, high-

performance stainless steel. The cutter-

cum-anode can fi t shaft diameters from

25mm to 50mm and ¾in to 2¼in.

Combined

anode and

rope cutter

Price from £40 Contact Interform Marine

Tel 01494 532335 Web http://www.interform-marine.co.uk

Price from £119.00 Contact Chatham

Tel 01392 822 981 Web http://www.chatham.co.uk

No prizes for guessing the

country of origin for Chatham’s

Made in Britain collection.

The British family business

aimed to make a shoe wholly

designed, sourced and

produced in the UK. They

came very close.

The outsoles are genuine

rubber, with a non-marking

sole cut for extra grip. The

uppers are hand-stitched,

premium quality British-made

kudu leather sourced from a

tannery in Leeds.

A new sole has been

developed for the range,

using memory foam to

give comfort and

support.

Price from £119.00 Contact Chatham

developed for the range, developed for the range,

using memory foam to

give comfort and

support.

Flotation

aid on a belt

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Do you want new shoes or a handy way to hold

gadgets? Graham Snook has the answer for you

Whether you want to hold your tablet, phone,

action camera or digital camera (with a

tripod mount), the Mini ROKK from Scanstrut

can help. It’s a modular system with a

number of base plates which can be fl ush

mounted, rail mounted, cable-tied or stuck

almost anywhere, and a number of other

adjustable mounts that clip onto the bases.

So you could have one arm for, say, an action

cam, and any number of base plates dotted

around the boat that you can quickly unclip,

then re-clip to a different plate.

You may want a base plate for a bracket

to hold your tablet in the cockpit, then

remove the bracket and mount it below to

watch a fi lm on the same tablet.

Multi-purpose, handy brackets

Price from £45 Contact Force 4

Tel 0345 130 0710

Web http://www.force4.co.uk