I use the Jet Pilot and really enjoy it. Not sure how it goes with a waist harness as i haven't tried it yet. Side entry and easy to get into, floats well enough (I tip the scale at 105kg).

Jet Pilot has one out called SWAT and it's made to fit over your harness and theres a hole for harness hook. My girlfriend has one and she loves it.

biggest thing is to try it on with your harness as that will be one of the key factors.

Good luck with the Noosa rally

i got the cabrinha impact vest with the integrated harness- meant i didn't have another piece of gear to forget.

it's great for the flotation in surf with a downed kite- really easy to float in winding lines at the same time.

can be pretty warm- good for winter.

Kinda like that Knoty,after becoming familiar with the wide spectrum of personalities on this kiteing part of Seabreeze I adopted the term "forum dueller's" as an apropriate nickname for us...yes at times you would think that a pistol wipping,glove slapping showdown was inevitable between some forum dueller's but in most case's it is light hearted entertainment that keep's us amused(especialy during wind lull's).If you have noticed,amongst all the bulls**t there is some great imformation to be read....My last topic (not so great) was "Church of Kite Fundamentalists" as I have often said,"to get all of the kiteing crew from the seabreeze forum at the one place together, would be a total crackup"...Roo

Yep, love my old super daggy Bump n Jump.

These have a kite knife, enough flotation to help after a lung busting landing and certainly helps keep the ribs together after a backroll accidentally morphs into a, higher than kite, kiteloop.

This incident impacted so hard that the jacket dug deep into the water and became a temporary water collection anchor, shearing down one side as I was hauled off for the next impact! Bloody glad I had it on! $10 for a stitch up and still saving my bacon. Cost me $90 second hand.

Bump n jump 8/10 for function but only 2/10 for fashion