At 08:56 AM 4/12/98 +0000, you wrote: >If you don't want to buy and install a deck mounted compass, >the least you should do is make sure you have a rinkydink >one permantently stowed in one of your hatches. I have a pathtfinder compass from REI on a lanyard and is a permenant part of my PFD along with the flares, signal mirror, light, whistle, knife, watch, strobe, and radio. The compass is fluid dampened, and the lanyard (shoelace) is long enough to lay the compass on the spray skirt which works "fair" even in choppy water. OK, the GPS blew a circuit and I traded it in on a tent and backpack. Now I'm looking at a replacement, but the technology is like computers. . . moving so fast that I don't want to spend good money on the obsolete stuff --like the $250 Garmin that was "up-teched" two weeks after my purchase. I'm looking for a decent deck compass that will mount on the peaked deck of my GTS. But the hand-held should be, I think, a back-up IN the PFD. ------------------------------------------------------- George Bergeron, Secretary OSWEGO HERITAGE COUNCIL P.O. Box 1041, Lake Oswego, Oregon 97034 Web Site: http://www.europa.com/~heritage/welcome.html Email: heritage_at_europa.com *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************Received on Sun Apr 12 1998 - 10:52:07 PDT
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