[Rhodes22-list] anchor light

Fri May 21 09:27:59 EDT 2010

My "sailing buddy" suggests:

at anchor I often just use a $5 Wal-mart hanging camp light that is powered by 4 -AAs.  I just hang it up in the rigging at the stern; does not matter that the mast blocks it at a small angle (never got a ticket). At anchor you keep swinging so the light is visible from all approaches. This is common among world cruisers.  

- rob

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From: rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org [mailto:rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org] On Behalf Of Leland
Sent: Friday, May 21, 2010 9:14 AM
To: rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org
Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] anchor light

Joe,

I have a stern light you can see from the back and sides of the boat and a
light attached to the mast that you can see from the front and sides of the
boat, giving you 360 degrees of illumination.  According to this that's all
you need:

http://www.boatingbasicsonline.com/content/general/4_2_b.php
http://www.boatingbasicsonline.com/content/general/4_2_b.php 

I'm sure Rose would disagree but Stan is rarely wrong.

Lee

Joe Camp wrote:
> 
> Lee:
> Does our boat have an anchor light standard?  I like your critique of the
> poem.  You got the message.
> Joe 
> 
> --- On Fri, 5/21/10, KUHN, LELAND <LKUHN at cnmc.org> wrote:
> 
> From: KUHN, LELAND <LKUHN at cnmc.org>
> Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] anchor light
> To: "The Rhodes 22 Email List" <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
> Date: Friday, May 21, 2010, 8:39 AM
> 
> Joe,
> 
> If I ever anchor at night I'm gonna want to be seen, regardless of what
> Stan or the Coast Guard say.  I'm thinking disco ball.
> 
> I like your poem.  I believe in God and the Pythagorean Theory--not so
> much God's formula:
> 
> "Perhaps the most unusual argument for evidence of God has come from
> mathematics. Some have suggested that the compact formula ei*pi + 1 = 0 is
> surely proof of a Creator and have called this formula "God's formula."
> Edward Kasner and James Newman in Mathematics and the Imagination note,
> "We can only reproduce the equation and not stop to inquire into its
> implications. It appeals equally to the mystic, the scientists, the
> mathematician." This formula of Leonhard Euler (1707-1783) unites the five
> most important symbols of mathematics: 1, 0, pi, e and i (the square root
> of minus one). This union was regarded as mystic union containing
> representatives from each branch of the mathematical tree: arithmetic is
> represented by 0 and 1, algebra by the symbol i, geometry by pi, and
> analysis by the transcendental e. Harvard mathematician Benjamin Pierce
> said about the formula, "That is surely true, it is absolutely
> paradoxical; we cannot understand it, and we don't
>  know what it means, but we have proved it, and therefore we know it must
> be the truth." Mathematics certainly says more in fewer "words" than any
> other science. David Eugene Smith in A History of Mathematics in America
> Before 1900 wrote, "The formula, ei*pi + 1 = 0 expressed a world of
> thought, of truth, of poetry, and of the religious spirit 'God eternally
> geometrizes.'"
> 
> Lee
> 1986 Rhodes22  AT EASE
> Kent Island, MD
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org
> [mailto:rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org] On Behalf Of Joe Camp
> Sent: Friday, May 21, 2010 5:02 AM
> To: Rhodes List
> Subject: [Rhodes22-list] anchor light
> 
> Hey friends:
>  
>      As I am still a prospective Rhodes owner (end of July) I wanted to
> clear up a matter, and this is it:  The GB information says that the
> Rhodes does not come with an anchor light, since one is only required when
> anchored in a channel.  BUT, the USCG says that any boat anchored away
> from a dock or mooring at night must have an "all around" light.  What's
> the real deal?  Do I--or don't I--need one?  I'll be on an inland lake. 
> The boater safety course says, "gotta have one." BG says, "don't need
> one."  Who's right?  thanks.
>  
> Joe  (poem follows)
>       
>  
>  
>        Mister Spock's
> God                                                          
>  
>  
> The Vulcan, Mister Spock
> will have no god
> when his future
> comes to be. His faith
> will be his reason and emotion 
> his original sin.
> Heaven-after all-
> is illogical
> with no
> basis in fact or foundation
> to support it in the firmament.
> And Hell? A negative
> needs a positive to exist.
> I think:
>  
> To Pythagoras god 
> was but another 
> complex equation unsolved; 
> to the priest 
> he is  a fool
> with mistaken ideals;
> to this poet, 
> he the inability
> to explain me to myself-
> mathematically.                          1988
>  
> 
>  
> 
> 
>       
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