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2000 was a good year
Posted By: shawn baker In Response To: Strobes are considered distress signals... (Jabberwocky)
Date: Tuesday, 16 November 2004, at 4:18 p.m.
: ...don't use them. You'll have the Coast Guard and Marine police getting
: grouchy.I didn't say to use them. I told him to check first, they're legal on land, but probably not on water. Strobes are considered distress signals under Inland rules, they're techincally not recognized under International rules.
Why did you decide to dig up this four-year-old post?!
: There
: is no limitation on white lights. Theoretically you could light yourself
: up like a Christmas tree if you only used white lights.How so? If you had a column of three white lights, you could be impersonating a vessel under tow.
: Sometimes you get wiseguy night water skiiers who want to give you a scare.
: You just take off the band, hide the lights and cease to be a target.There aren't many water skiiers in coastal waters where there's a lot of commercial navigation....that I'm aware of...and on small inland lakes where water skiing is popular, it's a good bet nobody follows the colregs anyway.
Wally World had some "kids headlamps" which look like a knockoff of the waterproof 2-cell Princeton-Tec headlamps for the lowly price of $5.95...I may have to try some out.
Shawn
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