The light known as the "steaming light" is supposed to show a horz. arc of 225 deg straight ahead, same total arc as the fwd sectors (red+green) of the tricolor light, aft stern light sector being 135 deg.
The tricolor light is commonly known as a masthead tricolor, the anchor light is known as just that, and the other light is known as a steaming light, in common parlance. The steaming light is NOT required to be 2/3 or some distance up the mast (how does anyone at some distance away from you know where the top of your mast is at night when you are under power, remember you can't show what is known as the masthead tricolor light or the anchor light while under power). The steaming light is only required to be a certain distance separated from other lights. However it is in fact commonly placed about 2/3 or a bit further up the mast, attached to the front of the mast partly to help achieve the correct horz. sector showing with a normal light bulb. Led lights don't need this placement to achieve the proper sector showing. As a matter of fact firststarled.com makes a compact retrofit led masthead light 'bulb' that has three functions, masthead tricolor light, automatic anchor light, and steaming light, all in one 'bulb' that is brighter than a normal 25 W light and uses about half the power of other led lights of the same brightness. No one else has such a light.-Ken _______________________________________________ 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
