Wrong,
Mashead light=steaming light for some=120 degree forward. Mast head is the 
third of the mast from the top.
Top of the mast light=anchor light=all around white light
 Yanni Marinated
S/V Princess Thalia
Columbia 8.7 #73
Hamilton-Fifty Point @H3
N 43.13.406
W 73.37.431 



----- Original Message ----
From: 'bella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Sunday, October 12, 2008 10:15:45 AM
Subject: Re: [Liveaboard] led masthead lights..


no skip... 
masthead... = top of mast (the one required all night when anchored and 
dragging over to those nasty mudbanks.... (grins))
steaming light = the light 2/3 of the way up... 


 
On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 9:25 AM, Skip Gundlach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

----- Original Message ----- 
From: 'bella 
To: [email protected] 
Sent: Sunday, October 12, 2008 3:03 AM
Subject: [Liveaboard] led masthead lights..

Anyone installed one... how well did it do.. as bright as the hype said it 
would be.. cost?
 
 
If by masthead, you mean the white light that has to be displayed by a motor 
vessel under way, commonly found on sailboats about 2/3 up the mast, not me.  
That's what the Coast Guard calls masthead lights, so I've gotten in the habit 
of calling them that, too.
 
If you mean one of those things which has tricolor and anchor light in one unit 
and goes on top of the mast, I have one.  I call them sailing and anchor 
lights; others call them masthead lights and, I presume, something else :{))
 
It's the bees knees.  Got it from John and Libbie at Hotwire, there at the 
shows.  Orca, I believe, very small and tidy and absolutely brilliant.
 
I went with the solar shutoff anchor light, not strobe version, as strobe is 
strictly emergency use or get big trouble and a bunch more.
 
I've got pix of the installation in my gallery, somewhere, I'm sure.  I don't 
recall for sure the price, and that was a couple of years ago, so things may 
well have changed, but memory sez ~300bx.
 
Took a pair of (single strand, not jacketed, to save space) #16 or 18, I forget 
which, on which polarity is reversed to make either anchor or sailing lights.
 
I love it.
 
L8R
 
Skip
 
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