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Lights, compass and scratches

We will use LED navigation lights from Lopolight. Expensive, but seems to be worth it. 2.1 W power consumption, waterproof, works for 50.000 hours, certified for ships up to 50 meters long.

This is what they look like:

LopolightLopolight navigation lights

And this is how the sidelights will be mounted:

LopolightLopolight mount.

Tomorrow we will connect the electrics to see if they work.

We also mounted the compass today:

CompassCompass.

We mounted it on the port side, instead of the more comme il faut place at the starboard side. I suppose that you mount compasses on the starboard side because you sit on the starboard side while on a starboard tack. And that is, of cource, the right way to go. But on a chinese junk rig,  all the lines comes down on the starboard side as well, since it is comme il faut to let the sail fly the port side of the mast. And since the Chinese invented the compass, we let the Chinese decide thist time.

We made some ugly scratches in the polycarbonate windows today… Guess that happens quite easily. Is it possible to polish the windows? Ordinary boat polish?

Posted: July 5th, 2008 under Hardware, Portlights, Building.
Comments: 2

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Comment from Donal Philby
Time: July 6, 2008, 6:07 pm

We recently added LED navigation lights to both hull and masthead from Orca Green. A friend has their Tricolor and it lights up the sea at night. Ours, so far, lights up the boat yard. Orca Green says they are just under 3 mile range. And they barely register on the amp meter. We have added several Sensibulb LED reading lights to the interior and they are perfect color and intensity. Much easier and cheaper to minimize electrical usage than to generate more. Your boat is looking better and better.

Comment from Matti
Time: July 6, 2008, 6:48 pm

Hi Donal,
Interesting to hear some first, and second, hand experience about the LED-lights and lamps. We have ordered some LED-reading lamps for the seven bunks, but it seems like we will have to use kerosene this year, since we don’t have time to mount it.
I agree with you that it is a really good thing to minimize electrical usage. Now i am looking into building a low amp computer, to use in the on board office (aka navigation table). I need to be able to work while sailing.
/m

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