S/Y Linnea » Hardware http://www.sylinnea.com A blog about sailing a 36 ft sailing boat with junk rig Mon, 18 Jan 2010 08:37:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Lights, compass and scratches http://www.sylinnea.com/2008/07/lights-compass-and-scratches/ http://www.sylinnea.com/2008/07/lights-compass-and-scratches/#comments Sat, 05 Jul 2008 17:23:57 +0000 matti http://www.sylinnea.com/2008/07/05/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?

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