[Paddlewise] night lights

This is a response to the post from Jake about night 
lights.  I am the person who was crossing Lake Erie when 
a seventy to eighty foot long ship a few miles away 
changed course. The reason for the course change was due 
to their ship seeing the white deck light of my sea 
kayak. Just as Jake typed, the two foot waves that came 
between me and the ship caused my steady deck light to 
look like a blinking strobe light. When I paddle at 
night I like to use no illumination and keep course by 
paddling toward a star on the horizon. On that 
particular night the skies were cloudy and I used the 
flashlight to illuminate my deck compass. 

Good night padlling,
Don Dimond
***************************************************************************
PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List
Submissions:     paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net
Subscriptions:   paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net
Website:         http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/
***************************************************************************