Yeah, I wasn't recommending the kerosene lamp. Just figuring that it establishes an acceptable location to hang an electric lamp. Also, using a bright enough light in the foretriangle illuminates the deck, which is an awfully nice extra safety feature if e.g. the anchor drags and has to be reset in the dark, when barely-woken-back-up.
Like I said before, I'd probably go for something along the lines of one of them solar garden lights in the foretriangle (if I could convince myself that it's bright enough). Cheers, Kris On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 12:53:04PM -0400, [email protected] wrote: > > 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 -- Kris Coward http://unripe.melon.org/ GPG Fingerprint: 2BF3 957D 310A FEEC 4733 830E 21A4 05C7 1FEB 12B3 _______________________________________________ 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
