What are you skippers doing for running lights? I am setting up Pelican for ocean cursing and want decent running lights. I now have lights with suction cups that stick on the side of the cabin (this is so un kool). Is the hot tip to mount the lights to the bow and stern pulpits? What size batteries are you using? What is the light arrangement? I am thinking of having a light for under power, an anchor light at the head of the mast, and the normal running lights maybe even a spreader light. I figure I could be underway at night for maybe 8 hours and the battery (or oil) would need to last that long. Are any of you using a solar panel or wind turbine? Yep you are right That ole boy just finished reading "Diary of a sea captains wife" Captain James Albert Sadler skipper sailing vessel Pelican M-15 jimsadler@jascopacific.com
Jim: Look into LED lights. The clamp-on ones aren't too expensive, and the batteries last a long time. More new LED stuff is coming out all the time. Some battery-powered Christmas lights (3 AA batteries per string) come in the right colors (red, green, white) and cost about $3.50 per string at Walmart currently. I haven't checked the current draw yet, but will. --Gary Hyde 2005 M17 sailboat #637 'Hydeaway 2' We can't change the wind, but we can trim our sails. On Oct 12, 2007, at 9:12 AM, Jim Sadler wrote:
What are you skippers doing for running lights? I am setting up Pelican for ocean cursing and want decent running lights. I now have lights with suction cups that stick on the side of the cabin (this is so un kool). Is the hot tip to mount the lights to the bow and stern pulpits? What size batteries are you using? What is the light arrangement? I am thinking of having a light for under power, an anchor light at the head of the mast, and the normal running lights maybe even a spreader light. I figure I could be underway at night for maybe 8 hours and the battery (or oil) would need to last that long. Are any of you using a solar panel or wind turbine?
Yep you are right That ole boy just finished reading "Diary of a sea captains wife"
Captain James Albert Sadler skipper sailing vessel Pelican M-15 jimsadler@jascopacific.com
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Thanks Skipper Here are the coastguard requirements BOATS UNDER 12 METERS (39.4') Sailboats-Separate or combination red and green sidelights, 112.5?, visible 1 n.m. White stern light, 135?, visible 2 n.m. OR, tri-color masthead light. It looks like the red and green lights need to be visable for 1 mile and the stern light 2 miles I have no idea what a tri color mast head light is? Any of you skipper know? Captain James Albert Sadler skipper sailing vessel Pelican M-15 jimsadler@jascopacific.com -----Original Message----- From: montgomery_boats-bounces@mailman.xmission.com [mailto:montgomery_boats-bounces@mailman.xmission.com]On Behalf Of Gary M Hyde Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2007 7:43 PM To: For and about Montgomery Sailboats Subject: Re: M_Boats: Running Lights M-15 Jim: Look into LED lights. The clamp-on ones aren't too expensive, and the batteries last a long time. More new LED stuff is coming out all the time. Some battery-powered Christmas lights (3 AA batteries per string) come in the right colors (red, green, white) and cost about $3.50 per string at Walmart currently. I haven't checked the current draw yet, but will. --Gary Hyde 2005 M17 sailboat #637 'Hydeaway 2' We can't change the wind, but we can trim our sails. On Oct 12, 2007, at 9:12 AM, Jim Sadler wrote:
What are you skippers doing for running lights? I am setting up Pelican for ocean cursing and want decent running lights. I now have lights with suction cups that stick on the side of the cabin (this is so un kool). Is the hot tip to mount the lights to the bow and stern pulpits? What size batteries are you using? What is the light arrangement? I am thinking of having a light for under power, an anchor light at the head of the mast, and the normal running lights maybe even a spreader light. I figure I could be underway at night for maybe 8 hours and the battery (or oil) would need to last that long. Are any of you using a solar panel or wind turbine?
Yep you are right That ole boy just finished reading "Diary of a sea captains wife"
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Jim, A tri-color mast head llight is located at the top of the mast and has the red/green running lights along with a white/clear achor light.? I hope this helps, Skip M-15 #201 -----Original Message----- From: Jim Sadler <jimsadler@jascopacific.com> To: For and about Montgomery Sailboats <montgomery_boats@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 3:49 pm Subject: RE: M_Boats: Running Lights M-15 Thanks Skipper Here are the coastguard requirements BOATS UNDER 12 METERS (39.4') Sailboats-Separate or combination red and green sidelights, 112.5?, visible 1 n.m. White stern light, 135?, visible 2 n.m. OR, tri-color masthead light. It looks like the red and green lights need to be visable for 1 mile and the stern light 2 miles I have no idea what a tri color mast head light is? Any of you skipper know? Captain James Albert Sadler skipper sailing vessel Pelican M-15 jimsadler@jascopacific.com -----Original Message----- From: montgomery_boats-bounces@mailman.xmission.com [mailto:montgomery_boats-bounces@mailman.xmission.com]On Behalf Of Gary M Hyde Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2007 7:43 PM To: For and about Montgomery Sailboats Subject: Re: M_Boats: Running Lights M-15 Jim: Look into LED lights. The clamp-on ones aren't too expensive, and the batteries last a long time. More new LED stuff is coming out all the time. Some battery-powered Christmas lights (3 AA batteries per string) come in the right colors (red, green, white) and cost about $3.50 per string at Walmart currently. I haven't checked the current draw yet, but will. --Gary Hyde 2005 M17 sailboat #637 'Hydeaway 2' We can't change the wind, but we can trim our sails. On Oct 12, 2007, at 9:12 AM, Jim Sadler wrote:
What are you skippers doing for running lights? I am setting up Pelican for ocean cursing and want decent running lights. I now have lights with suction cups that stick on the side of the cabin (this is so un kool). Is the hot tip to mount the lights to the bow and stern pulpits? What size batteries are you using? What is the light arrangement? I am thinking of having a light for under power, an anchor light at the head of the mast, and the normal running lights maybe even a spreader light. I figure I could be underway at night for maybe 8 hours and the battery (or oil) would need to last that long. Are any of you using a solar panel or wind turbine?
Yep you are right That ole boy just finished reading "Diary of a sea captains wife"
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An anchor light is an all around white light at the masthead. You cannot use a stern light for this. I use a Davis "mega-light" on Haiku: http://www.davisnet.com/marine/products/marine_product.asp?pnum=03300 It has a long cord and a clip which attaches to the main halyard. I plug it into the cigarette lighter socket on a portable power pack which I strap to the base of the mast at night (getting it out of the cabin and out of the way as well as giving the light more height on the mast). The light goes on automatically at dusk and off at dawn. Nifty. I should get another one. BTW, not wanting to go to the expense, trouble and complexity of wiring my 15, I have portable LED bow and stern lights. I don't trust suction cups and the clamp on type are pretty useless, so I modified them by attaching the lights to some good quality plastic spring clamps with articulating jaws. The bow light clips right onto the bow pulpit and the stern light attaches easily over the edge of the stern without marring or marking the fiberglass. It ain't elegant, but I don't sail much at night and mostly keep them around for those "oops- it's-getting-dark-and-we're-still-out-here" situations. George Burmeyer "Haiku" 1986 M15 #385 Santa Rosa, CA On Oct 17, 2007, at 1:40 PM, wcampion@aol.com wrote:
Jim,
A tri-color mast head llight is located at the top of the mast and has the red/green running lights along with a white/clear achor light.?
I hope this helps,
Skip M-15 #201
-----Original Message----- From: Jim Sadler <jimsadler@jascopacific.com> To: For and about Montgomery Sailboats <montgomery_boats@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 3:49 pm Subject: RE: M_Boats: Running Lights M-15
Thanks Skipper
Here are the coastguard requirements
BOATS UNDER 12 METERS (39.4') Sailboats-Separate or combination red and green sidelights, 112.5?, visible 1 n.m. White stern light, 135?, visible 2 n.m. OR, tri-color masthead light.
It looks like the red and green lights need to be visable for 1 mile and the stern light 2 miles
I have no idea what a tri color mast head light is?
Any of you skipper know?
Captain James Albert Sadler skipper sailing vessel Pelican M-15 jimsadler@jascopacific.com
-----Original Message----- From: montgomery_boats-bounces@mailman.xmission.com [mailto:montgomery_boats-bounces@mailman.xmission.com]On Behalf Of Gary M Hyde Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2007 7:43 PM To: For and about Montgomery Sailboats Subject: Re: M_Boats: Running Lights M-15
Jim: Look into LED lights. The clamp-on ones aren't too expensive, and the batteries last a long time. More new LED stuff is coming out all the time. Some battery-powered Christmas lights (3 AA batteries per string) come in the right colors (red, green, white) and cost about $3.50 per string at Walmart currently. I haven't checked the current draw yet, but will.
--Gary Hyde 2005 M17 sailboat #637 'Hydeaway 2' We can't change the wind, but we can trim our sails.
On Oct 12, 2007, at 9:12 AM, Jim Sadler wrote:
What are you skippers doing for running lights? I am setting up Pelican for ocean cursing and want decent running lights. I now have lights with suction cups that stick on the side of the cabin (this is so un kool). Is the hot tip to mount the lights to the bow and stern pulpits? What size batteries are you using? What is the light arrangement? I am thinking of having a light for under power, an anchor light at the head of the mast, and the normal running lights maybe even a spreader light. I figure I could be underway at night for maybe 8 hours and the battery (or oil) would need to last that long. Are any of you using a solar panel or wind turbine?
Yep you are right That ole boy just finished reading "Diary of a sea captains wife"
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Jim, I cruised along the east coast for 5 years without electronics in my M15. During that time I used a clip on bow light and made up a stern light fitting that would clip on the tiller at the transom. I used the now illegal night light to hoist up the mast using the main halyard. When I was planning the cruise to the Dry Tortugas ( 80 nm west of Key West) I decided I needed masthead running lights and a masthead VHF antenna to be seen and heard in the possible swells. Since masthead running lights can only be used while sailing I installed two sets of running lights - masthead and deck. The deck lights in the bow actually attach to the bow pulpit and the wiring comes though the deck underneath the foot of the pulpit and runs thought the hollow stainless tube to the mounting point. The only tri-color masthead lights I could find were far cheaper at defender than West Marine - about 1/3 less. The make a masthead tricolor with an anchor light for a lot more money so I bought a little white all around light and bolted it to the top of the tri color - added some pins and little wiring and it has worked fine for the last 5 years. I do not use interior lights and I could cruise for a week without recharging the 80 amp hr gel cell battery when only using the anchor light, vhf radio and about and hour of running lights. I have recently added a solar panel but have little practical experience with it yet. Rick Langer has a great small led mast head anchor light that I have been meaning to ask him where it came from - Rick - Can you enlighten us? I could send pictures off line if you like. Thanks Doug Kelch M15 #310 "Seas the Day" On Oct 12, 2007, at 9:12 AM, Jim Sadler wrote:
What are you skippers doing for running lights? I am setting up Pelican for ocean cursing and want decent running lights. I now have lights with suction cups that stick on the side of the cabin (this is so un kool). Is the hot tip to mount the lights to the bow and stern pulpits? What size batteries are you using? What is the light arrangement? I am thinking of having a light for under power, an anchor light at the head of the mast, and the normal running lights maybe even a spreader light. I figure I could be underway at night for maybe 8 hours and the battery (or oil) would need to last that long. Are any of you using a solar panel or wind turbine?
Yep you are right That ole boy just finished reading "Diary of a sea captains wife"
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No! The tricolor has red port, green starboard, and white aft. The white is NOT an anchor light. An anchor light is all around white. The tricolor is for traveling at night, not for anchoring. --Gary Hyde 2005 M17 sailboat #637 'Hydeaway 2' We can't change the wind, but we can trim our sails. On Oct 17, 2007, at 1:40 PM, wcampion@aol.com wrote:
Jim,
A tri-color mast head llight is located at the top of the mast and has the red/green running lights along with a white/clear achor light.?
I hope this helps,
Skip M-15 #201
-----Original Message----- From: Jim Sadler <jimsadler@jascopacific.com> To: For and about Montgomery Sailboats <montgomery_boats@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 3:49 pm Subject: RE: M_Boats: Running Lights M-15
Thanks Skipper
Here are the coastguard requirements
BOATS UNDER 12 METERS (39.4') Sailboats-Separate or combination red and green sidelights, 112.5?, visible 1 n.m. White stern light, 135?, visible 2 n.m. OR, tri-color masthead light.
It looks like the red and green lights need to be visable for 1 mile and the stern light 2 miles
I have no idea what a tri color mast head light is?
Any of you skipper know?
Captain James Albert Sadler skipper sailing vessel Pelican M-15 jimsadler@jascopacific.com
-----Original Message----- From: montgomery_boats-bounces@mailman.xmission.com [mailto:montgomery_boats-bounces@mailman.xmission.com]On Behalf Of Gary M Hyde Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2007 7:43 PM To: For and about Montgomery Sailboats Subject: Re: M_Boats: Running Lights M-15
Jim: Look into LED lights. The clamp-on ones aren't too expensive, and the batteries last a long time. More new LED stuff is coming out all the time. Some battery-powered Christmas lights (3 AA batteries per string) come in the right colors (red, green, white) and cost about $3.50 per string at Walmart currently. I haven't checked the current draw yet, but will.
--Gary Hyde 2005 M17 sailboat #637 'Hydeaway 2' We can't change the wind, but we can trim our sails.
On Oct 12, 2007, at 9:12 AM, Jim Sadler wrote:
What are you skippers doing for running lights? I am setting up Pelican for ocean cursing and want decent running lights. I now have lights with suction cups that stick on the side of the cabin (this is so un kool). Is the hot tip to mount the lights to the bow and stern pulpits? What size batteries are you using? What is the light arrangement? I am thinking of having a light for under power, an anchor light at the head of the mast, and the normal running lights maybe even a spreader light. I figure I could be underway at night for maybe 8 hours and the battery (or oil) would need to last that long. Are any of you using a solar panel or wind turbine?
Yep you are right That ole boy just finished reading "Diary of a sea captains wife"
Captain James Albert Sadler skipper sailing vessel Pelican M-15 jimsadler@jascopacific.com
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Thanks everyone for letting me know I screwed up!? One incorrect answer has caused numerous negative responses, all with the same theme.? I think I'll just go back to just lurking.............it's much too risky to post. Skip M-15 #201 -----Original Message----- From: Gary M Hyde <gmhyde1@mac.com> To: For and about Montgomery Sailboats <montgomery_boats@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 11:47 pm Subject: Re: M_Boats: Running Lights M-15 No! The tricolor has red port, green starboard, and white aft. The white is NOT an anchor light. An anchor light is all around white. The tricolor is for traveling at night, not for anchoring.? ? --Gary Hyde? 2005 M17 sailboat #637 'Hydeaway 2'? We can't change the wind, but we can trim our sails.? ? On Oct 17, 2007, at 1:40 PM, wcampion@aol.com wrote:? ?
? Jim,? ? ? ? A tri-color mast head llight is located at the top of the mast and > has the red/green running lights along with a white/clear achor > light.?? ? ? ? I hope this helps,? ? Skip M-15 #201? ? ? -----Original Message-----? From: Jim Sadler <jimsadler@jascopacific.com>? To: For and about Montgomery Sailboats > <montgomery_boats@mailman.xmission.com>? Sent: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 3:49 pm? Subject: RE: M_Boats: Running Lights M-15? ? ? ? ? Thanks Skipper? ? Here are the coastguard requirements? ? BOATS UNDER 12 METERS (39.4')? Sailboats-Separate or combination red and green sidelights, 112.5?, > visible? 1 n.m. White stern light, 135?, visible 2 n.m. OR, tri-color > masthead light.? ? It looks like the red and green lights need to be visable for 1 > mile and? the stern light 2 miles? ? I have no idea what a tri color mast head light is?? ? Any of you skipper know?? ? Captain James Albert Sadler? skipper sailing vessel Pelican M-15? jimsadler@jascopacific.com? ? ? -----Original Message-----? From: montgomery_boats-bounces@mailman.xmission.com? [mailto:montgomery_boats-bounces@mailman.xmission.com]On Behalf Of > Gary? M Hyde? Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2007 7:43 PM? To: For and about Montgomery Sailboats? Subject: Re: M_Boats: Running Lights M-15? ? ? Jim:? Look into LED lights. The clamp-on ones aren't too expensive, and the? batteries last a long time. More new LED stuff is coming out all the? time. Some battery-powered Christmas lights (3 AA batteries per? string) come in the right colors (red, green, white) and cost about? $3.50 per string at Walmart currently. I haven't checked the current? draw yet, but will.? ? ? --Gary Hyde? 2005 M17 sailboat #637 'Hydeaway 2'? We can't change the wind, but we can trim our sails.? ? ? On Oct 12, 2007, at 9:12 AM, Jim Sadler wrote:? ?
What are you skippers doing for running lights? I am setting up? Pelican for? ocean cursing and want decent running lights.? I now have lights with suction cups that stick on the side of the? cabin? (this is so un kool). Is the hot tip to mount the lights to the? bow and? stern pulpits? What size batteries are you using? What is the light? arrangement? I am thinking of having a light for under power, an? anchor? light at the head of the mast, and the normal running lights maybe? even a? spreader light. I figure I could be underway at night for maybe 8? hours and? the battery (or oil) would need to last that long. Are any of you? using a? solar panel or wind turbine?? ? Yep you are right? That ole boy just finished reading "Diary of a sea captains wife"? ? Captain James Albert Sadler? skipper sailing vessel Pelican M-15? jimsadler@jascopacific.com? ? ? ? _______________________________________________? http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/montgomery_boats? ? ? _______________________________________________? http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/montgomery_boats? ? ? ? _______________________________________________? http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/montgomery_boats? ? ? ______________________________________________________________________> __? Email and AIM finally together. You've gotta check out free AOL > Mail! - http://mail.aol.com? _______________________________________________? http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/montgomery_boats? ? _______________________________________________? http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/montgomery_boats?
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Thanks everyone for letting me know I screwed up!? One incorrect answer has caused numerous negative responses, all with the same theme.? I think I'll just go back to just lurking.............it's much too risky to post.
Skip M-15 #201
To bail Skip out and to muddy the waters even more, my West Marine catalog lists 3 versions of a tricolor light by Aqua Signal and all of them are a combination light that also includes an all-around or anchor light. So you have the tricolor and 360 degree anchor light in the same device. I might be daft on the wiring, but I think you would need to run two wires to the masthead and use two switches. But these are expensive, not to mention more windage and weight up high where you really don't want it on boats of this size. It does get the glare of the red/green navigation light off the deck where it can mess with night vision and has only one bulb vs. the two with a bow/stern split light setup. And gets it up higher where it can be seen from farther away. Howard On Oct 19, 2007, at 10:47 PM, Gary M Hyde wrote:
No! The tricolor has red port, green starboard, and white aft. The white is NOT an anchor light. An anchor light is all around white. The tricolor is for traveling at night, not for anchoring.
--Gary Hyde 2005 M17 sailboat #637 'Hydeaway 2' We can't change the wind, but we can trim our sails.
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