"Small quarrel here with sprayskirt location for compass -- tougher to maintain course when you have to keep looking down, then back to the horizon(?) in front of you. In addition, in really thick fog, should you *have* to paddle in it, vertigo leading to seasickness is a strong likelihood. It will help if you do not have to swing your head down." Agreed Dave, but Elaine was looking for somewhere other than the fore deck to mount a compass on her small folding kayak. I recomended that she choose a compass that can easily be moved around untill the ideal spot is found (the Suunto "Orca" would be good for this purpose). She was talking about not taking a compass at all, so I thought a compass on the spray skirt is better than no compass . . . (unless it makes you sick), Nick *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Mon Oct 18 1999 - 23:16:05 PDT
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