Flying IFR in/around the Chicago Class B, it's not unusual to get
vectored out over Lake Michigan. I've always been a little nervous
about this but even more so after the recent PA28 downing off
Milwaukee. Flotation gear is no solution for probably 6 months of the
year because of water temperature.

Anybody else found a way to deal with this? I fly out of Gary, and
eastbound the vector is almost always 040, which puts me a fair
distance offshore.