[Rhodes22-list] anchor light
John Lock
jlock at relevantarts.com
Fri May 21 14:49:32 EDT 2010
I guess that means you will be well "lit" for the weekend on the
water. An appropriate extension of this thread. Congrats on your
milestone!
Cheers!
John Lock
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s/v Pandion - '79 Rhodes 22
Lake Sinclair, GA
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On May 21, 2010, at 14:26, R22RumRunner at aol.com wrote:
> Lee,
> Shame on you for sticking up for Rose. Everyone on the list knows
> that Stan
> is ALWAYS right. In all the years that I've been on the list and a
> Rhodes
> owner, I have never found Stan to be wrong about anything.
>
> Rummy.......stepping off the box and going straight for the bar. It's
> Friday.....finally.
> Saturday is my 60th birthday. Everyone raise a drink and toast me. I
> will
> probably already be well toasted.
>
>
> In a message dated 5/21/2010 9:13:44 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> LKUHN at cnmc.org writes:
>
>
> Joe,
>
> I have a stern light you can see from the back and sides of the
> boat and a
> light attached to the mast that you can see from the front and
> sides of the
> boat, giving you 360 degrees of illumination. According to this
> that's all
> you need:
>
> http://www.boatingbasicsonline.com/content/general/4_2_b.php
> http://www.boatingbasicsonline.com/content/general/4_2_b.php
>
> I'm sure Rose would disagree but Stan is rarely wrong.
>
> Lee
>
>
> Joe Camp wrote:
>>
>> Lee:
>> Does our boat have an anchor light standard? I like your critique of
> the
>> poem. You got the message.
>> Joe
>>
>> --- On Fri, 5/21/10, KUHN, LELAND <LKUHN at cnmc.org> wrote:
>>
>> From: KUHN, LELAND <LKUHN at cnmc.org>
>> Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] anchor light
>> To: "The Rhodes 22 Email List" <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
>> Date: Friday, May 21, 2010, 8:39 AM
>>
>> Joe,
>>
>> If I ever anchor at night I'm gonna want to be seen, regardless of
>> what
>> Stan or the Coast Guard say. I'm thinking disco ball.
>>
>> I like your poem. I believe in God and the Pythagorean Theory--
>> not so
>> much God's formula:
>>
>> "Perhaps the most unusual argument for evidence of God has come from
>> mathematics. Some have suggested that the compact formula ei*pi +
>> 1 = 0
> is
>> surely proof of a Creator and have called this formula "God's
>> formula."
>> Edward Kasner and James Newman in Mathematics and the Imagination
>> note,
>> "We can only reproduce the equation and not stop to inquire into its
>> implications. It appeals equally to the mystic, the scientists, the
>> mathematician." This formula of Leonhard Euler (1707-1783) unites
>> the
> five
>> most important symbols of mathematics: 1, 0, pi, e and i (the
>> square root
>> of minus one). This union was regarded as mystic union containing
>> representatives from each branch of the mathematical tree:
>> arithmetic is
>> represented by 0 and 1, algebra by the symbol i, geometry by pi, and
>> analysis by the transcendental e. Harvard mathematician Benjamin
>> Pierce
>> said about the formula, "That is surely true, it is absolutely
>> paradoxical; we cannot understand it, and we don't
>> know what it means, but we have proved it, and therefore we know
>> it must
>> be the truth." Mathematics certainly says more in fewer "words"
>> than any
>> other science. David Eugene Smith in A History of Mathematics in
>> America
>> Before 1900 wrote, "The formula, ei*pi + 1 = 0 expressed a world of
>> thought, of truth, of poetry, and of the religious spirit 'God
>> eternally
>> geometrizes.'"
>>
>> Lee
>> 1986 Rhodes22 AT EASE
>> Kent Island, MD
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org
>> [mailto:rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org] On Behalf Of Joe Camp
>> Sent: Friday, May 21, 2010 5:02 AM
>> To: Rhodes List
>> Subject: [Rhodes22-list] anchor light
>>
>> 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
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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