RE: [Paddlewise] Paddling Formations

Aaron,

I appreciate your thoughts.  I certainly found it easiest to see the right
and left flank boats when they were in positions like what you suggest.  The
problem I see with your formation at night is that when we need to bunch up
quickly to present a large mass of light the ends of the wing have to make a
direction change and move a long way.  We did have a problem with pulling
together quickly with the diamond formation because the lead boats out paced
the slower paddlers. 

   >-----Original Message-----
   >From: Aaron Cunningham [mailto:acunning_at_seanet.com]
   >Sent: Friday, August 04, 2000 2:01 PM
   >To: Dickson, Dana A.
   >Cc: 'PaddleWise_at_lists.intelenet.net'
   >Subject: Re: [Paddlewise] Paddling Formations
   >
   >
   >You run into similar problems when conducting dismounted 
   >patrolling operations
   >in the military...the only visible thing are glowing"cat 
   >eyes" on the backs of
   >helmets/caps, so from the front...
   >
   >I think that in this situation, where you need all around 
   >visiblity like this
   >using a broader wedge might work better.  Something like :
   >
   >                                ^
   >                                ^    Direction of Travel
   >                                ^
   >
   >                                XX
   >                        XX           XX
   >                XX                            XX
   >
   >where you can look over each shoulder and see the other people...
   >possibly using the flag idea from the visiblity thread, 
   >with a chem lite
   >attached to the top would work better (one color for 
   >leaders(s) and another for
   >everyone else, or possibly 2 chemlites attached to the hull 
   >on either side of
   >the cockpit, arranged like a plane..one color on left, 
   >another on right, to
   >confirm orientation...
   >
   >Obiously the broad wedge is situationally dependent, based 
   >on terrain, etc...
   >
   >Just a thought...
   >
   >Aaron
   
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