An eight-minute podcast describing how to recognize lighthouses on nautical charts and read their descriptions. Good for sea kayakers looking to navigate in daylight or darkness.

Learning to read charts and recognize lighthouses is a valuable sea kayaking skill.

For visuals on lighthouse symbols and codes, download NOAA Chart 1, the index of symbols. Or download any NOAA chart and look for a lavendar exclamation point symbol. That’s a lighthouse. Next to to the symbol you will see a code.

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A roughly five-minute podcast on a few particulars related to paddling at night, including the use of SOLAS tape, glosticks and a new compass designed specifically for night paddling.

If you’re more a reader than a listener, head on over to my blog, Sea Kayaking Dot Net,for a couple hundred posts on sea kayaking on topics ranging from safety and fitness to building your own boat and paddle.

Incidentally, with Boaters World in Chapter 11 bankruptcy, there are some very good deals out there in cyberspace on submersible vhf radios. Amazon retailers are selling Standard HX600s submersibles for $199.00.

There’s also some good deals on Icom M34 Submersibles.

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