RE: [Paddlewise] LED Running Lights

Hi Bob,

I don't know that kayaks are necessarily too narrow to make it
practical, since there are combo red/green lights for small skiffs and
runabouts that don't present much color spread.

My rationale wasn't so much for the ability of other boats to gauge our
direction or speed, but merely to identify us as boats, and
differentiate us from background lights that are often un-moving. (A
single white light on a kayak doesn't move too much over a short period
of time, and could easily be confused...)

I have your LED page bookmarked--very nice!  Your comment about the new
3-cell LED flashlight spurred a thought that's been churning in the
after recesses of my brain...

Safe paddling,
Shawn

--- Bob Denton <gulfstream_at_flinet.com> wrote:
> Have you seen my LED page:
> 
> www.flinet.com/gulfstream/paddle.html
> 
> The issue with Red/ Green lights is that as I understand it, per CG
> rules, a kayak should be marked with a steady white light. The reason
> one has a red/green light on boats and planes is to be able to
> identify
> their direction relative to the viewer. Kayaks are too narrow to make
> that practical and pose no threat of collision due to the slow speed
> most of us can achieve.


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