Matt Langenfeld wrote:

Tim,

What's you view on the auto-inflate type of sponsoon that only comes out
during an emergency vs your which are "inflated" all the time?

Where did you get that impression?
I used Tim's original Sea Wing sponsons in a sea kayak symposium rescue
class over 10 years ago. Only some attachment clips were pre-installed on
the kayak. We deliberately capsized/exited and then attached the sponsons
and inflated them. Then we reentered, pumped out the cockpit, and finally
deflated and removed the sponsons. The process was pretty similar to the
use of paddlefloats which were also used in the class along with assorted
types of assisted rescue.
Seems that what he's promoting more recently to the Coast Guard is the
auto-inflate type of device (the ones I used were only manually inflated).