> > I was curious if anyone knows of any boating LED set ups, since LED's have > relatively low power drain and they come in the colors required for night > time boat use (Red/Green/White). The white/red/green combination can only be used on power boats. Any human powered boat must not have red and green lights. The white light for human powered craft must be visible all around, 360 degrees. Intermittent and strobe lights are strictly forbiden in inland waters except to indicate distress. The definition of inland water is not as obvious as it sounds, most of the California coast happens to be considered inland water. Those are the regulations. There is a pencil shaped 360 degree light for sale at West Marine. I tape that vertically to my helmet's back so that my helmet looks like a light house (permanently lit, no flashing). They claim to have a duration of 8+ ours on 2 AA batteries. Ralph wrote a nice article about the subject on <http://www.seakayaker.com> Be aware that the swamp monster is waiting out there for night paddlers. :-) - Julio *************************************************************************** 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 Fri May 08 1998 - 15:37:58 PDT
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