La Boheme - Day 4 - Change from the South

It came at around 5am this morning with the wind up to 35 knots when rounding Southern tip of Madagascar. We had too much sail and instead of genoa Greg has decided to put staysail. He got soaking wet from the sea spray and crashing waves and then...when rinsing himself and his life vest with fresh water...boom...our new "Spinlock" life vest all of a sudden inflated itself. Fortunately we have a spare PFD. I am not so sure that this is such a good thing that the life vest inflates itself on contact with water. What do you do on rainy days? Do we have to have several life jackets each for different weather? Manufacturers think!!!
Anna for the team La Boheme