Guest Posted April 6, 2011 Share Posted April 6, 2011 Thanks.Thats good to know. Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted April 7, 2011 Share Posted April 7, 2011 dont get me started on dumb arses that dont have anchor lights....... Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted April 7, 2011 Share Posted April 7, 2011 So what do you think of the lights on your average mussel farm? Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted April 7, 2011 Share Posted April 7, 2011 yes but they are marked on the charts...... well i have never had a bad experience in 10 years with amussel farm, have bumped one boat and narrowly missed two others approaching anchorages in pitch blackness.... in general old kiwi boats with small battery farms... Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted April 7, 2011 Share Posted April 7, 2011 So what is preferable, masthead or deck level? Link to post Share on other sites
wheels 543 Posted April 7, 2011 Share Posted April 7, 2011 Masthead you get to see it all the way around. Any lower and it could be masked by some part of the vessel. Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted April 7, 2011 Share Posted April 7, 2011 But when you are in a busy anchorage a drunk in a dinghy won't see the masthead one. Link to post Share on other sites
rigger 47 Posted April 7, 2011 Share Posted April 7, 2011 If you can fit lights on your spreaders that light up the deck it is a good option in addition to an anchor light. The spreader lights do not have to be hugely bright just enough to highlight the cabin top and mast. Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted April 7, 2011 Share Posted April 7, 2011 Hanging off the end of the boom. Low so can be seen during drunk midnite sailing dingy pottering around and it moves a bit so doesn't look like a Star. Dump the garden solar shitters, most don't last that long and are to soft. They are real easy to build using those solar ones as parts. Goggle it. Link to post Share on other sites
PaulR 3 Posted April 7, 2011 Share Posted April 7, 2011 Downward Cones = Motor sailing. To be displayed where can be seen best = windward side, clear of sails. Anchor lights & Black Balls: In the "forward part of the (small) vessel". So hanging off the forestay, hauled up by a halyard or hanging from spinnaker Pole Topping Lift would be best uptions. BTW the cones and blackballs are now in plastic that slot together so thay are easy to stow in a locker, or even the anchor well, perhaps clipped onto the anchor well's lid Link to post Share on other sites
PaulR 3 Posted April 7, 2011 Share Posted April 7, 2011 Hanging off the end of the boom. Low so can be seen during drunk midnite sailing dingy pottering around and it moves a bit so doesn't look like a Star. Dump the garden solar shitters, most don't last that long and are to soft. They are real easy to build using those solar ones as parts. Goggle it. A few days ago I saw a new white boom with a light (LED presumeably) nicely moulded / fitted into the underside of the boom, 2/3rds way aft of mast, so it would shine upon the main hatch and down onto the ladder. Wires looked broken / not yet connected. (Was in Westhaven on northern side, but forgotton exactly where, but between F & B piers on the outer end.) Link to post Share on other sites
wheels 543 Posted April 7, 2011 Share Posted April 7, 2011 But when you are in a busy anchorage a drunk in a dinghy won't see the masthead one. Exactly, why would I want to attract Drunks to my Boat Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted April 7, 2011 Share Posted April 7, 2011 Problem is I have been hit more than once by a drunk in a dinghy, and yes with damage to my boat. Link to post Share on other sites
Grinna 2 Posted April 7, 2011 Share Posted April 7, 2011 We always run a masthead anchor light and generally have a couple of solar garden lights in the cockpit and often a decent LED cockpit light running at night ........ no blardy excuses for not seeing us. In terms of day shapes .... we don't even have any day shapes on board. Should prolly do something abotu that. Link to post Share on other sites
smithy09 50 Posted April 8, 2011 Share Posted April 8, 2011 It would be a hard boat to miss Grinna.. Not small!! Link to post Share on other sites
Grinna 2 Posted April 8, 2011 Share Posted April 8, 2011 Yeah well .... maybe we should run a set of lights down the flight deck .... just to define the dimensions Link to post Share on other sites
smithy09 50 Posted April 9, 2011 Share Posted April 9, 2011 Yup! That would keep them at bay! Link to post Share on other sites
wheels 543 Posted April 9, 2011 Share Posted April 9, 2011 More than likely just confuse Pilots. Hey we missed ya last night smithy. Link to post Share on other sites
smithy09 50 Posted April 11, 2011 Share Posted April 11, 2011 More than likely just confuse Pilots. Hey we missed ya last night smithy. Yeah Sorry Wheels. Hope you had a good night! I would have been there if I could.. Slumming it here off WA. Gotta pay those Marina fees somehow, and now the Marshall is booked in for an anti-foul ready for the SSANZ series as well, so I need the dollars! I'll come and annoy the crew at that bondage outfit where you work when I get home. Link to post Share on other sites
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