"Donald R. Reid" wrote: > Mike, at sea ... according to all the 'rules and regs' ... a > strobe, per sie, has no meaning ... > > A 'red strobe' might be interpreted as a distress signal ... > but .. a white strobe will certainly 'catch their > attentions' and that is the whole objective of the deal. > > To be honest, I am an ocean master .. I never qualified not > studied the rules of the road for the Great Lakes ... but I > do have the inland rules on my computer ... and I find > nothing about strobes as 'distress' signals. Check http://www.cgaux.org/cgauxweb/manuals/vemanual/veman6d.htm and do a search on "strobe". It's the only online reference I could find quickly. I've never understood why the Inland rules differ from the ocean rules in so many little things. Mike *************************************************************************** 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 Tue Jun 27 2000 - 16:47:16 PDT
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