Service Station LED Torches and Headlamps (for yer head)

[Swagman]

We bought four LED head lamp sets - the ones that take 3 AAA batteries - this past summer at the local Esso Garage. Think they were less than £3 each.
With rechargeable AAA's we found these incredibly useful on our past winters cruise.
The LEDS used so little power the AAA's did not need recharging until 20+ nights of continual use - and with one a piece on our heads - it saved all the fumbling in a dark cockpit trying to located a needed torch.
Its something others might consider copying.
JOHN

[sahona]

We use it in the dinghy at night - to see and be seen.

[cpedw]

http://www.lidl.co.uk/uk/home.nsf/pages ... dlamp.ar11 Worth a try for £3 I think.

[Arghiro]

A short while ago Lidl (or maybe Aldi) did a wind-up headlamp which is absolutely great. You have to take the lamp off the headband to wind it but it lasts a while on the single led or gives a brighter light on the 3led setting.

Excellent item.

[trouville]

LEDs are great!.I bought a 6 LED lamp i removed the clamp so its very handy.It has a solar panel which recharges it,one charge lasts a whole night!!!

Ive left mine hanging under the boom to find the boat easily on a dark night

[Clyde_Wanderer]

We bought four LED head lamp sets - the ones that take 3 AAA batteries - this past summer at the local Esso Garage. Think they were less than £3 each.
With rechargeable AAA's we found these incredibly useful on our past winters cruise.
The LEDS used so little power the AAA's did not need recharging until 20+ nights of continual use - and with one a piece on our heads - it saved all the fumbling in a dark cockpit trying to located a needed torch.
Its something others might consider copying.
JOHN

How did you manage to find them useful on your last winters cruise when you only bought them this summer?

[Arghiro]

That's the beauty of time travel . . .

[Cliff]

Dae ya nae spek Glasgae? "past summer"= last summer, not this "summer".

[ljs]

How did you manage to find them useful on your last winters cruise when you only bought them this summer?

He posted the original comment in March so it can't have been this summer!

[Clyde_Wanderer]

Dae ya nae spek Glasgae? "past summer"= last summer, not this "summer".

Big man, he did say "This past summer"
How are you keeping anyway? good I hope.

[aquaplane]

I got one of them wind up head torches for Chrimbo last year, it's dead good. It keeps me warm too, I can manage about a minute winding before I get fed up/tired and that lasts about, well I never timed it but would guess an hour. It supliments the oil lamp nicely for reading in an evening.

[lady_stormrider]

I also have a wind-up torch from Aldi - if you are arriving on a boat in the dark a wind-up head light and a torch are excellent to climb aboard the boat and find the storm lantern (and matches).

[Ye Dil Tum]

I also have a wind-up torch from Aldi - if you are arriving on a boat in the dark a wind-up head light and a torch are excellent to climb aboard the boat and find the storm lantern (and matches).

Well said dude
It should must carry some flashlights or torch lights and some matches as well when arriving in a boat in the dark.

[mm5aho]

Surely this is a wind up?

[BlowingOldBoots]

I also have a wind-up torch from Aldi - if you are arriving on a boat in the dark a wind-up head light and a torch are excellent to climb aboard the boat and find the storm lantern (and matches).

Well said dude
It should must carry some flashlights or torch lights and some matches as well when arriving in a boat in the dark.

Dude, Have you now finished your stash; it's 2012 man, you've missed 4 years, oh man, what a bummer. What are the matches for anyway?