Last night a church member took a bunch of youth up here doing a program for the church over to LeConte Bay on his fishing boat. It was foggy and there were no other boats in the bay so he fired off an old parachute flare to see if it still worked (it did). He monitored the radio to make sure no one saw the flare and paniced. I happened to have my PFD with me and decided to test out my three hand held flares. 0 for 3!!! Not a one even so much as fizzled! I am thinking of going with the pistol type flare system though where I will store them on me while I paddle I have not figured out yet. A bird in the hand may be worth two in the bush but a handheld flare is worthless Bob *************************************************************************** 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 Fri Jul 20 2007 - 13:45:22 PDT
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