> After getting any piece of gear that claims waterproofness, do the > bathtub drop test at home and see if it holds up. Waterprrofness sounds so nice, but all Iīve learned is - donīt trust it. Most things canīt swim, so I place all the important things in waterproof and floatable bags, so they swim. And if the bag will have a failure someday, I will notice it quite fast and got time enough to react, before water will do more heavily damage. OK, sounds impossible put all the stuff in bags. But itīs "only" the cell phone, VHF, camera, some flat unfocussed lamp, GPS and VHF-station (25W) (placed in Curver-Box), ah - and the both handhelds for the VHF Station I will put in Whanganui-small bags from AQ next time. Nothing more, sounds enough I think... :-) bye Jochen *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Thu Jan 31 2002 - 14:14:41 PST
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