At 04:44 PM 8/2/00 -0400, Rick Sylvia wrote: >I recently talked to a Coastie about this topic. He said that there are >differences in the visibility of certain colors, but as a general rule - >FORGET IT. The real impact is the color of your PFD or your paddle blades. >The kayak has too low a profile, but the PFD is higher on the water, and the >paddle blades provide movement to key off of. Makes sense to me - I always >see fellow kayakers by their paddle movement long before I spot their kayak. I think we're talking about two different visibility issues here. The first involves wearing a bright PFD and paddle blades so that you're visible to other boaters and they can avoid you. The other involves being visible by other boaters as well as aircraft so that you can be found. In the later case, a bright kayak would be an advantage as well. *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced/forwarded outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Thu Aug 03 2000 - 05:12:52 PDT
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