Any lamp not on the masthead can be occulted by rigging. Mine is on a masthead but the mast is only about 10 feet above the deck. It could be occulted by a wind genny.
I became disenchanted with kerosene anchor lights early on when they were almost always blown out during the night and I had to clean the globe and refill them every morning. For me they were messy and unreliable. I'm sure some would say I had the wrong type and I'm sure they would be right. For me a good automatic electric is so much more reliable, doesn't blow out, comes on even if I forget or am off the boat, that for me it is the only choice. But then, I have 1,300 Watts of PV on the roof. I think the anchor light specs call for 2 miles on less than 40 foot, and 3 miles on 40-and-greater. Please correct me if I'm wrong. I suspect most kero yacht- size anchor lights will not meet this requirement. I don't anchor in the throughfare and am very careful when operating out of the channel at night. The bottom line is that it is still an open question. Norm S/V Bandersnatch Lying Gloucester MA > Aren't kerosene hurricane lamps suspended from a halyard (and a pair of > downhauls) on the foretriangle a common and accepted form of anchor > light? _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://liveaboardonline.com/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.liveaboardonline.com/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
