[Rhodes22-list] anchor light
John Shulick
jsbudda at verizon.net
Sun May 23 21:37:58 EDT 2010
John L
I use a stern light with a 1 watt LED form WM and can get 2 nights out of 4
2,500 ma nickel metal hydride rechargables. run it up the mast with a
halyard and you're good. Also draws all the night critters (bugs) way up
high and out of the way.
John S
jlock wrote:
>
> Wonder how long the 4 AAs last?
>
> Cheers!
> John Lock
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> s/v Pandion - '79 Rhodes 22
> Lake Sinclair, GA
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
>
> On May 21, 2010, at 16:33, Joe Camp wrote:
>> I like Rob's K-Mart light suggestion. No wiring, no battery drain,
>> no potential repair worries. I feel like a winner.
>> Joe
>>
>> --- On Fri, 5/21/10, Lowe, Rob <rlowe at vt.edu> wrote:
>>
>> From: Lowe, Rob <rlowe at vt.edu>
>> Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] anchor light
>> To: "The Rhodes 22 Email List" <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
>> Date: Friday, May 21, 2010, 9:27 AM
>>
>> 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
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> 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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