Specifically, a flashlight for spotting markers, crab buoys, pirates ships, and such. I like the idea of a traditional, cylindrical, handheld flashlight over a larger pistol-grip "spotlight". And I don't like bells and whistles - unfortunately for me, because the world seems to have gone MAD over complexity for the sake of complexity, at the expense of reliability.
Obviously a tight beam is probably the most critical feature of all .. next to reliability of course.
There is very little in the archives on the subject. Only one thread with "flashlight" in the title!
I have been looking at Marinebeam's "Ultra Long Range Illuminator RLT", which seems to have an astonishingly tight beam. The only drawback I see is that it has three modes, including my ultimate pet peeve, STROBE. If it had a simple on-off switch, I would actually have bought it last night. But the necessity to push the switch three times, in order to turn the light off, made me want to ask around first.
Obviously a tight beam is probably the most critical feature of all .. next to reliability of course.
There is very little in the archives on the subject. Only one thread with "flashlight" in the title!
I have been looking at Marinebeam's "Ultra Long Range Illuminator RLT", which seems to have an astonishingly tight beam. The only drawback I see is that it has three modes, including my ultimate pet peeve, STROBE. If it had a simple on-off switch, I would actually have bought it last night. But the necessity to push the switch three times, in order to turn the light off, made me want to ask around first.