Hi, Norm, and list,
On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 9:16 AM, [email protected] < [email protected]> wrote: > > I have seen all-around white lights mounted on the dink's outboard. While > a very convenient place to mount them, their usefulness is limited when the > outboard is underway because the light is blocked by the operator's body > through many degrees. > > My dinghy all-around is one of those tall (about 30") stalks with a bright > light at the top. At the bottom I put a small (about 3/4" diam.) stainless > ham radio whip antenna spring (Ham Radio Outlet) and a stainless twist-lock > quick disconnect (same source). It has worked very well over the years, > doesn't break when it hits something (most of the time) and is easily > removable when needed. It is high enough so that it can be seen all > around. > I confess to having the means, but have never implemented it, to put the 3/4" PVC tube which holds a solar light stem on our stern of the mother ship currently, in the inflatable dink. No doubt that would be a better solution, but, having never implemented it, the stick-on routine would allow us at least that much. The reality of how we use our dinghy is that we're more concerned for legality than utility - and, at that, both of them (the PortaBote, which doesn't have the practical means of attaching the clamps we have screwed into the transom on the inflatable Walker Bay, the other), using different motors, but at 10' not being required to have "nav" lights, having SOMETHING back there is useful. I was very pleased to see the switch, as when they're not being used, the outboards are covered, on their blocks on the rail; if they were not switched, the batteries would always be powering the light, making for a quck death :{/) Perhaps some day we'll actually get around to implementing the stalk-mounted solar light, but for now, it makes a lovely added light to the aft deck/platform. Unfortunately for anchoring purposes, it's occulted in most directions due to all the stuff we have hanging on the arch! As such, it doesn't usually provide much assistance to identification of our boat at anchor, nor, in practical terms, make much difference to whether someone would run into us for not having seen the mast-top light due to being too close... L8R Skip, ashore, and wishing he weren't :{)) -- 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 The Society for the Preservation of Tithesis commends your ebriated and scrutible use of delible and defatigable, which are gainly, sipid and couth. We are gruntled and consolate that you have the ertia and eptitude to choose such putably pensible tithesis, which we parage. >>Stamp out Sesquipedalianism<<
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