http://www.yorkietalk.com/forums/my-...water-dog.html
Here is a link to my post about our 9 day trip with Hot Rod. He did wonderfully!
We kept him on the pad because we knew we'd be boating with him so he goes both on shore and the pad. We anchor out quite a bit so we wanted to make sure that he could go when he needed to.
We got our life vests at Petco. Sizes xxs and tiny. Hot Rod loves the water and will even jump in himself off of the raft we have for him (while we are with him in the water). We also put him in the water without his jacket to make sure that he knew what to do if he should ever fall in without his jacket on.
Our little girl had her first weekend on the boat the very first weekend we got her. We were in a marina so we knew she would be okay.
Good luck and feel free to ask me anything about our adventures on the boat with them.