situation: you are a guide and assistant guide, doing a classic *lead and sweep* on a night paddle with a tour group, and everyone is wearing a light. problem: if everyone is wearing a light, how does the group distinguish the guide's boat and the assistant guide's boat from all other boats? strobes are not permissable. chemical light sticks are not environmentally sound. has anyone encountered this situation and if so, how have you solved it? even if you haven't encountered it, do you have any suggestions? *************************************************************************** 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/ ***************************************************************************
Amigh2_at_aol.com wrote: > situation: you are a guide and assistant guide, doing a classic *lead and > sweep* on a night paddle with a tour group, and everyone is wearing a light. > > problem: if everyone is wearing a light, how does the group distinguish the > guide's boat and the assistant guide's boat from all other boats? > > strobes are not permissable. chemical light sticks are not environmentally > sound. > > has anyone encountered this situation and if so, how have you solved it? > even if you haven't encountered it, do you have any suggestions? > > My immediate reaction is to have the lead guide and assistants wear a light of a different color. colored lenses are available, or a colored krill type light would work. If colored lights are also not allowed then the lead and assistant could wear two lights. If close enough together (say six inches apart) the two lights would appear as one to any power boat at a distance, but still be discernible to members of the group out to about 150 yards. Mike -- Paddling along through fog so thick that only one's thoughts are visible, your reverie is abruptly shattered by the ancient cry of a great blue heron as she lifts uncertainly from the brilliant blue of a mussel-shell beach witnessed only by the brooding, wet spruce....your passage home seems as much back through time as it does through space. Mark H Hunt *************************************************************************** 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/ ***************************************************************************
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