All Offshore Powerboats Need Good Life Rafts

The Givens Buoy life raft shown in high seas and high winds. BoatTEST.com thinks that Givens are the best life rafts on the market.

When we specify life rafts for boats that we plan to take offshore, we always choose the Givens Buoy life raft. The reason is simple: its patented ballast chamber is a huge bag that keeps the raft from being overturned by high wind and seas. We feel that all boats going offshore should have life rafts, and if you are going to have one then it might as well be the best. Forty years of reading and interviewing survivors has convinced us that Givens is the best way to go.

To see a video showing the Givens raft in extreme conditions --