JCMARTIN43_at_aol.com wrote: > > Chuck Sutherland wrote, "A group of us once paddled in heavy fog among islands on the coast of Maine.SNIPPED Chuck has asked about ideas on radar visibility for kayaks. LONG DISCUSSION BY JACK SNIPPED > My somewhat more than two cents. > > Jack Let's face it, you are duck soup in fog. You're best staying off the water in trafficked areas in fog, period. Even if this means adjusting your schedule to wait out the fog. If it descends on you while on open water, get to anything you can that is solid such as some rocks or a bouy and stay there til things clear even if it takes half a day. One of my scariest times ever on the water was on an Albany to NY Hudson River trip on the day at mid-point where we started off one early morning in such thick fog that we could hardly see 3 feet past our bow. Going down river, we constantly bumped into the shore on each side like a ball in a pinball machine, so blind were we. I kept expecting some cement barge and tug from the factories near Cementtown NY to run us down in this early morning fog. In hindsight, we should have stayed at our campsite, drank more coffee, worked on knot-tying etc. and waited for the thing to lift a bit. Forget about reflectors, etc.; they won't work for all the reasons stated by Jack, most particularly that they make such a some blip on a radar screen that only the most microscopic-eyed operator would spot it...most like it would be dismissed as a quark in the system. ralph diaz -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Ralph Diaz . . . Folding Kayaker newsletter PO Box 0754, New York, NY 10024 Tel: 212-724-5069; E-mail: rdiaz_at_ix.netcom.com "Where's your sea kayak?"----"It's in the bag." ----------------------------------------------------------------------- *************************************************************************** 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 Thu Oct 21 1999 - 07:21:34 PDT
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