Jennifer, Dave & Bob Thanks for the confirmations. I should have made it clear that I meant 'not required to carry' during daylight! At night, I believe the US does require 3 'night' flares, but I believe Canada exempts human-powered under 6-m from its requirements (for 6 flares). As the daylight hours in Alaska are currently from 04:20 to nearly 10 pm, I hope & expect to avoid paddling at night ;-) Here in NZ, I carry flares 'always' simply to prevent me ever forgetting them - and because I'm often visible to houses on-shore or to other boats. In most of the upcoming Alaskan paddling, I'm not expecting to see many people on the water - and none at all on land. So my primary Maydays are going to have to be electronic (VHF x2 & PLB). Bob, thanks for the offer of the flares. I completely agree with you - on the small ones being useless - I carry only the SOLAS ones. I think I've decided that we just won't bother with them (for the reasons in the para above). If we were required to carry flares and the Laser Flare was acceptable - it might push me to buy one (or one for each of us). But that doesn't seem like it will fly ;-) Best Regards Paul Hayward, Auckland, New Zealand *************************************************************************** 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 Sat Jul 10 2010 - 22:39:48 PDT
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