[Rhodes22-list] anchor light

[Chris Cowie]

Joe:

My new 2009 Rhodes came from Stan with three switches on the electrical panel.  "Mast head" light,"anchor light", "running lights".  When sailing/motoring at night my running light and mast head switches would be on and this provides power to the rear stern light, port and starboard lights mounted near the rub rail toward the bow and the single lamp that throws light forward at 225 degrees, I don't need the anchor light on because the stern light provides a white light off the stern.    When at anchor the running light switch is off, anchor light and mast head lights are on.  The mast head light switch powers a lamp at the top of the mast that has a forward throw only 225 degrees and the anchor light switch powers a lamp that has an aft thro only.  This way with mast head and anchor light I get a 360 white light at the top of the mast.  If in an approved anchorage area and out of a channel I might not need the anchor light but I would rather been seen than be right. Check out this web site for a description of light arrangements.

http://www.boatus.org/onlinecourse/ReviewPages/BoatUSF/Project/info2c.htm



Christopher P. Cowie    


4400 MacArthur Blvd, NW 
Suite 300 
Washington, DC  20007 
202.342.2711 
202.342.2691 fax 
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-----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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