[Rhodes22-list] anchor light

[Joe Camp]

Hey friends:
 
     As I am still a prospective Rhodes owner (end of July) I wanted to clear up a matter, and this is it:  The GB information says that the Rhodes does not come with an anchor light, since one is only required when anchored in a channel.  BUT, the USCG says that any boat anchored away from a dock or mooring at night must have an "all around" light.  What's the real deal?  Do I--or don't I--need one?  I'll be on an inland lake.  The boater safety course says, "gotta have one." BG says, "don't need one."  Who's right?  thanks.
 
Joe  (poem follows)
      
 
 
       Mister Spock’s God                                                          
 
 
The Vulcan, Mister Spock
will have no god
when his future
comes to be. His faith
will be his reason and emotion 
his original sin.
Heaven—after all—
is illogical
with no
basis in fact or foundation
to support it in the firmament.
And Hell? A negative
needs a positive to exist.
I think:
 
To Pythagoras god 
was but another 
complex equation unsolved; 
to the priest 
he is  a fool
with mistaken ideals;
to this poet, 
he the inability
to explain me to myself—
mathematically.                          1988