no skip... masthead... = top of mast (the one required all night when anchored and dragging over to those nasty mudbanks.... (grins)) steaming light = the light 2/3 of the way up...
On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 9:25 AM, Skip Gundlach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > *From:* 'bella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > *To:* [email protected] > *Sent:* Sunday, October 12, 2008 3:03 AM > *Subject:* [Liveaboard] led masthead lights.. > > Anyone installed one... how well did it do.. as bright as the hype said > it would be.. cost? > > > > If by masthead, you mean the white light that has to be displayed by a > motor vessel under way, commonly found on sailboats about 2/3 up the mast, > not me. That's what the Coast Guard calls masthead lights, so I've gotten > in the habit of calling them that, too. > > If you mean one of those things which has tricolor and anchor light in one > unit and goes on top of the mast, I have one. I call them sailing and > anchor lights; others call them masthead lights and, I presume, something > else :{)) > > It's the bees knees. Got it from John and Libbie at Hotwire, there at the > shows. Orca, I believe, very small and tidy and absolutely brilliant. > > I went with the solar shutoff anchor light, not strobe version, as strobe > is strictly emergency use or get big trouble and a bunch more. > > I've got pix of the installation in my gallery, somewhere, I'm sure. I > don't recall for sure the price, and that was a couple of years ago, so > things may well have changed, but memory sez ~300bx. > > Took a pair of (single strand, not jacketed, to save space) #16 or 18, I > forget which, on which polarity is reversed to make either anchor or sailing > lights. > > I love it. > > L8R > > Skip > > Morgan 461 #2 > SV Flying Pig KI4MPC > See our galleries at www.justpickone.org/skip/gallery ! > Follow us at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TheFlyingPigLog > and/or http://groups.google.com/group/flyingpiglog > > "You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it > come true. You may have to work for it however." > (and) > "There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. > You seek problems because you need their gifts." > (Richard Bach, in The Reluctant Messiah) > > _______________________________________________ > Liveaboard mailing list > [email protected] > To adjust your membership settings over the web > http://www.liveaboardnow.org/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard > To subscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To unsubscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > The archives are at http://www.liveaboardnow.org/pipermail/liveaboard/ > > To search the archives > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] > > The Mailman Users Guide can be found here > http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html > -- It's not about the boat it's sails or rigging. It's about the freedom. http://www.slideshare.net/jacko91/these-are-my-credentials/ http://fisherhouse.org/ http://www.specialops.org/ "We are the gaurdians of a great faith. When we believe that freedom offers the best chance of peace and prosperity for all, and our desire for peace cannot be seperated from our believe in liberty." Harry J. Truman Political Correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.
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