-----Original Message----- Don Dimond wrote: I recommend using a red cyalume lightstick from Campmor if you want to navigate at night. I find that I have to splash water onto my deck compass if condensation builds up on it while paddling. This is a very good point, and one I haven't seen mentioned here before. At night the only color that will not damage your night vision is red. The yellow and green cyalume lights will ruin your night vision completely. Red has no effect. Something to consider when buying gear and especially charts, if you plan on doing a lot of paddling at night. I don't know if there are maps and charts commercially available that are red light readable, we are still in the process of changing over in the Marine Corps. A red light readable chart will have anything normally in red in brown instead. Red on a map or chart does not show up under a red light, certain browns do. Regards, Aaron Hunt *************************************************************************** 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 Tue Mar 02 1999 - 07:43:58 PST
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