A flashing yellow is used by hovercraft operating at night... Paul Esterle Freelance Boating Writer Columbia 10.7, 26 & Matilda 20 North East, MD. “Capt’n Pauley’s Boat Repairs & Upgrades” book at www.captnpauley.com home.comcast.net/~pesterle/
Ed Kelly wrote: > Craig, > > A strobe is a distress signal. Don't know if that is what you are > talking about when you say flashing. > > Ed > > On Oct 15, 2008, at 4:14 PM, Craig Poole wrote: > > I use one of those Davis mini-mega lights on my boat as a backup > to the all-around mast top anchor light. Totally agree that way up on > the stop (gee, ok it's only 28' up) does a poor job in a close up > anchorage. My light has 6 options flashing or solid white, red or > yellow. I've thought of using the flashing option but figured there > is probably some colreg rule against same. But I have used the > flashing yellow a couple of times at dusk while out away from the boat > (usually hung from the boom and over the cockpit) to help in finding > me way home quickly and easily. > > craig poole > m/s jack b Nimble > > On Oct 15, 2008, at 3:07 PM, Norm of Bandersnatch wrote: > > >> Now I understand, the Davis Mini-Mega light (it sure is Mini and a >> long way >> from Mega). For a while I thought it was those units that took a 6 >> volt >> lantern battery in a white base and had a big rubber donut >> connecting a >> fresnel lens on top. >> > > _______________________________________________ > Liveaboard mailing list > [email protected] > To adjust your membership settings over the web http:// > www.liveaboardnow.org/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard > To subscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To unsubscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > The archives are at http://www.liveaboardnow.org/pipermail/liveaboard/ > > To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/ > [email protected] > > The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/ > mailman/mailman-member/index.html > > _______________________________________________ > Liveaboard mailing list > [email protected] > To adjust your membership settings over the web > http://www.liveaboardnow.org/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard > To subscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To unsubscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > The archives are at http://www.liveaboardnow.org/pipermail/liveaboard/ > > To search the archives > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] > > The Mailman Users Guide can be found here > http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html > > _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://www.liveaboardnow.org/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardnow.org/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
