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Personal portable light for close hand work in the dark
What is the issue?
When working on decks at night the old sea maxim of ‘one hand for the boat, one hand for your life’ comes into play. This leaves little room for a torch and most people hold a penlight in their mouth to provide directional illumination.
Why address this?
Holding a torch light in ones mouth is not comfortable for anything longer than a few minutes work and becomes a problem if you need to communicate with a colleague. It is also less than hygienic and could be very dangerous should you have a fall and land on it.
How to address this?
Use a headlamp instead of a standard torch. Powerful new ‘Light Emitting Diode’ based (LED) models are light, offer up to twenty metres of short range light with sustained battery life.
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How can I get this offshore?
If you are receiving a mobile signal you can access all of our information via a standard mobile phone internet browser. We provide a streamlined version of the site at www.liyfs.com, which is a shortcut to our 'Lite' site called Lite.InYourFootSteps.com, that is simplified and optimised for speed. Here are the phonetics to pass the address on via VHF: WWW.LIYFS.COM, I SPELL... LIMA... INDIA... YANKEE... FOXTROT... SIERRA... DOT.COM. Similarly, if you have limited or expensive internet capabilities, you may switch to the 'Lite' site www.liyfs.com for faster more efficient access.
Alternatively you may print a hard copy to have aboard. Either print this page with text, illustrations and photos, but without the internet menu, layout, backdrops and Google maps, or economise upon printer consumables and print this page with text only.
With thanks to:
Michael Harpur, Yacht Obsession, with thanks to Lee Gunter of www.medlectric.com
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Lee Gunter wrote this review on Dec 13th 2006:
I still prefer a small (no longer than 2.5" or 63.5 mm) with O-ring single 1.5 battery to put in my mouth. It is automatically squezzed when in stress and can not be knocked off the head like a head mounted LED - by an errant line. However inside working on the engine the headlamp is superior.
Lee Gunter
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