> I use the Magellan Blazer 12 (flotable,'waterproof'), and I find it most
> useful for its odometer function. Of course, if you are shooting for an
> island that's 4 miles from the mainland and you keep getting blown off
> course by a cross-wind, your zig-zagging course will show you to have gone
> more than 4 miles...

> I just have mine attached by its lanyard and kept under the foredeck
> bungees, but I have to tilt the thing up to read the screen. Then you
> can't tell what your speed was because you've stopped paddling to read it.
> I'd like something that would park it up at an angle, but that would
> interfere with rolls. So I was thinking of sewing a pocket or a couple of
> straps to my spray skirt so I could keep it basically in my lap. I have a
> neoprene skirt and don't know if sewing to it is such a good idea.

> I know, I should stop being such a techno-weenie and paddle like the
> Inuits...

> Dean

Dean,

You could glue a pouch to your spray skirt. Don't they cement neoprene together at the seams?

Mike