[Rhodes22-list] anchor light

Claude Cox ccc974 at comcast.net
Sat May 22 09:56:06 EDT 2010 

Happy 60th Rummy; will toast you several times today.
Claude

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Sent: Friday, May 21, 2010 2:26 PM
Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] anchor light


> 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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