Practical Sailor editors tested headlamps in our May 2008 report: “Lights
for Headlamps Round Up.” Many of the headlamps we tested had focused beams with “hot spots” in the center that
were too bright to preserve night vision.
As the sun goes down your eyes begin to adapt. At first your pupils dilate. Then photo-sensing chemicals needed in daylight drain away, and vision becomes over 50 times more sensitive, often without our notice until the sun is well below the horizon. In order to preserve night vision, referred to as dark-adapted vision, safe […]
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A salty Kiwi named Ross Norgrove once said that the most important tool for the owner of a wooden yawl adorned with a bowsprit is a sharp ax. To some degree, his witty comment holds true for contemporary sailors contemplating a mini-bowsprit.
