Mark Hunter wrote: > I've followed the occasional postings about how best to display a fixed white light > while underway at night. There have been some useful ideas, but I'm too lazy to > implement most of them. But while perusing the flashlight selection at Wal-Mart > today, I noticed that Eveready makes something called a "Sport Gear Pocket Light". > It's about six inches long, takes 2 AA batteries, and the head is a clear plastic > cap, so the bulb is visible for 360 degrees out the sides of the cap. The "roof" of > the cap is shaped into a lens, so that the light going out the top is focused into > a broad beam, good enough to light an area for reading, but wider and weaker than a > standard flashlight beam. Package says it's waterproof down to 30 feet. The case is > a simple cylinder, so I can rubber-band it to my headlamp band, or tuck it > underneath the band, and the light is visible above my noggin. (The headlamp is > off, of course; no flames, please.) About four bucks, alkaline batteries included. > > I have no financial involvement with Eveready or Wal-Mart; I just like the light. I have seen that light too. It looks good for the 360 aspect. But I don't think it is as bright as the halogen lights offered by Princeton. That light you mention is tempting to try out as it is inexpensive and of a nice tubular shape for duct taping to rods or attaching to a PFD. ralph > -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Nov 18 1999 - 06:30:47 PST
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