Quote: Sad thing is that they are made in France by Zodiac who own then rather than in the UK.
Nothing wrong with the quality of the Zodiac rafts - just the French???
We have a Zodiac raft that we bought second hand three years ago. Just had it serviced. We went to one of the Ocean Safety Open Days. They open your life raft for you and inflate it so that you can climb in and see that it was actually a life raft that you bought and not just a "blow up doll"!!!. Great experience - then they took it away for servicing. However the service needed lots of new stuff (flares etc) so the cost rose to about £500 for the service - Jimmy's cheap one seems the way to go.