"Glenn A. Heslop" wrote in
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I was thinking of a really damn bright light (i.e. so even the crazy
weekend powerboaters from Miami will see it)...a battery sized to
match (12hoursX draw/H) & stored in a cockpit lazarette & coupled with
a small solar panel. That way I can have a bright anchor-light while
not drawing power from my house batteries.


Problem solved.....

http://www.sailgb.com/p/anchor_light_6inch/

Draws no power...runs 30 hours on a "charge"

Haul it up on a halyard....

On Sat, 04 Feb 2006 18:41:07 -0500, Larry wrote:

"Glenn A. Heslop" wrote in
news:YDYEf.319488$tl.237592@pd7tw3no:

I was thinking of a really damn bright light (i.e. so even the crazy
weekend powerboaters from Miami will see it)...a battery sized to match
(12hoursX draw/H) & stored in a cockpit lazarette & coupled with a small
solar panel. That way I can have a bright anchor-light while not drawing
power from my house batteries.

Problem solved.....

http://www.sailgb.com/p/anchor_light_6inch/

Draws no power...runs 30 hours on a "charge"

Haul it up on a halyard....

Have you actually tried it? We tried a couple of oil lamps last
summer. They wouldn't stay lit in the slightest breath of wind.

Matt O.

Matt O'Toole wrote in
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Have you actually tried it? We tried a couple of oil lamps last
summer. They wouldn't stay lit in the slightest breath of wind.



We hauled a Weems & Plath yacht lamp up the mast a few times. It rained,
one time, and broke the glass chimney.

I'd have thought the actually anchor light, with the Fresnel Lens, would be
designed better than the cheap yacht lamp with the $100 price tag.

Matt O'Toole wrote:
On Sat, 04 Feb 2006 18:41:07 -0500, Larry wrote:


"Glenn A. Heslop" wrote in
news:YDYEf.319488$tl.237592@pd7tw3no:



I was thinking of a really damn bright light (i.e. so even the crazy
weekend powerboaters from Miami will see it)...a battery sized to match
(12hoursX draw/H) & stored in a cockpit lazarette & coupled with a small
solar panel. That way I can have a bright anchor-light while not drawing
power from my house batteries.


Problem solved.....

http://www.sailgb.com/p/anchor_light_6inch/

Draws no power...runs 30 hours on a "charge"

Haul it up on a halyard....


Have you actually tried it? We tried a couple of oil lamps last
summer. They wouldn't stay lit in the slightest breath of wind.

Matt O.

We had one and lived with it full time cruising for over 1 year. It
would only seldom blow out, because there is an inner chimney on the
model in the link. A fill lasted about 2-1/2 nights (which of course
meant that it would die the 3rd night because I was too lazy to fill
it the third night)

We replaced it with a tiny anchor light with a small bulb that drew
about 0.2A. Now I'd replace it with a LED type anchor light (home
made multi LED white one)

Evan Gatehouse