Hi John, What do you find works as to a compass? I have read about handheld but I wonder if their reading would change depending on where you were on the boat when you used it due to battery, ob or other chunks of metal. When you fashion your block consider someday a line, mooring or whatever may have to slide over your block and stern light so be sure it will not catch anything and cause damage to your boat.I ran the top of my block to the same height as the top of my stern light, for example. Tom <https://www.avast.com/sig-email> This email has been sent from a virus-free computer protected by Avast. www.avast.com <https://www.avast.com/sig-email> <#DDB4FAA8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2> On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 10:58 PM, John Schinnerer <john@eco-living.net> wrote:
Thanks Tom,
I may start looking for objects of a suitable angle from which a block could be cut... I've already got a working light, so easier to keep it where it is. And I've already got one rather large hole to fill once I remove the defunct, oversize, backrest-functionality-destroying bulkhead compass mounted starboard of the companionway. I may look for or make a small flush-mount porthole to put there.
cheers, John S.
On 02/04/2016 08:34 PM, Thomas Buzzi wrote:
I has to make the multi angled block to keep my stern light horizontal so as not to have the top of it block a lot of light going out the back of the boat. I have seen flat mounted 180degree lights on newer models of Montys so maybe it would be easier for you to get one of those and mount it on the transom and just close up the hole in the aft sloping end of your port coaming. <https://www.avast.com/sig-email> This email has been sent from a virus-free computer protected by Avast. www.avast.com <https://www.avast.com/sig-email> <#DDB4FAA8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2>
On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 9:41 PM, John Schinnerer <john@eco-living.net> wrote:
On 02/04/2016 09:09 AM, Thomas Buzzi wrote:
... Also very handy for dealing with the aft running lite or when
adding wiring for an auto helm.
Speaking of stern light - my M17 has the standard Perko dome style light installed on the downward slope of the port side coaming where it drops down to the transom. But it was just mounted flat on the slope, meaning it's tilted quite steeply. The solid part of the dome blocks a lot of the light astern (problematic, for a stern light!).
Some of the pictures shared recently about other things (like rudders) included a view of same light in same place, but with a nice wood wedge under the light so it sits level with respect to the horizon.
For those who have something like that for their stern light - was it something you bought, or did you make it or have it made, one-off?
I want to level my light in same way so wondering if there's something ready-made or I'll need to make it.
thanks, John S.
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- Eco-Living - Whole Systems Design Services People - Place - Learning - Integration john@eco-living.net - 510.982.1334 http://eco-living.net http://sociocracyconsulting.com