[Rhodes22-list] anchor light

John Lock jlock at relevantarts.com
Fri May 21 17:20:06 EDT 2010 

Wonder how long the 4 AAs last?

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 16:33, Joe Camp wrote:
> I like Rob's K-Mart light suggestion.  No wiring, no battery drain,  
> no potential repair worries. I feel like a winner.
> Joe
>
> --- On Fri, 5/21/10, Lowe, Rob <rlowe at vt.edu> wrote:
>
> From: Lowe, Rob <rlowe at vt.edu>
> Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] anchor light
> To: "The Rhodes 22 Email List" <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
> Date: Friday, May 21, 2010, 9:27 AM
>
> My "sailing buddy" suggests:
>
>
> at anchor I often just use a $5 Wal-mart hanging camp light that is  
> powered by 4 -AAs.  I just hang it up in the rigging at the stern;  
> does not matter that the mast blocks it at a small angle (never got  
> a ticket). At anchor you keep swinging so the light is visible from  
> all approaches. This is common among world cruisers.
>
>
> - rob
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org [mailto:rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org 
> ] On Behalf Of Leland
> Sent: Friday, May 21, 2010 9:14 AM
> To: rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org
> Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] anchor light
>
>
> 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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