Anchor light alternative?

[Divecoz]

Robert : Hahahaha To say we all need to do something, because you do it or enjoy it, makes as much since as saying all of you need to do what ever I do or enjoy, because maybe someday you'll need to know how to do it.. Makes No Sense to me..
Bob you are half my age .. but you are not young enough and I don't know how big you are? But I guarantee your not big enough ( because I taught and competed in a sport that neutralizes age and size) to get my butt out of bed early enough, to be down to the dock and on the boat in time to be in Open Water .....before the sun comes up..
Before night fall comes? I want to be settled in, anchored up , have a drink in my hand, music playing and firing up the Bar B Q.. That's ..My.. Life.. Ive done lots of stuff too Bob. Ive lived and Worked All Over America and even in Mexico... BTDT.. Ive snow camped by myself for 7 = 10 days numerous times. I competed and Instructed in long distance X country skiing and I gave away all my touring and out dated racing ski gear, All Of It..Myself and 3 friends walk from just North of Redding Ca. To John Day Dam on the PCT... I try not to have to walk more than a hundred yards now outside, and in the winter even less hahaha.. I still hold a NAUI O.W.SI. card Emeritus..Ive dove 264 fsw on air and I am cert. for Nitrox. We own 5 complete sets of Scuba gear 4 computers 5 separate down timers.. Last dive I made was 2 years ago.. BTDT.. Yes Bob when I was 30 40 even 50 I was still gung ho.. I am not anymore BTDT.. While you are coming in ,in the dark , yet to anchor and clean up? Still Haven't eaten... I will have had no less than 4 or 5 Drinks eaten dinner cleaned it up and playing one of my guitars in the cockpit.. To me? That's Living.. To Each His Own..
Bob allow me a couple questions? Bob are you sailing on Lake Laberge? Its less than 2 miles wide and only about 35 miles long there are only 25,000 people in your town and its the biggest town in the Yukon..how much boat trafffic do you have? Are you saying you have Freighter traffic? Its an Inland lake and not a very big one.. Your a long tow to Big Water, say Juneau? I do understand how its so dark now where you sail, but Bob thats only in the winter.. Bob You have 20 hours of sun, most days in the summer.. Do you really sail in the winter?

[yukonbob]

So you didn't do so well on the test i take it?

[Catigale]

Night sailing in coastal waters is a whole new dimension of dangers and issues...there are some real experienced sailors on this Board, but most of us are working gals/guys who don't get the sailing time to do this safely IMHO..

"never enter an unfamiliar port at night" is a mantra with good reason.....

[Divecoz]

I didn't bother Bob should I have? .. I did ask when do you sail in the dark on a small lake that is sun lite 20 hours a day?

So you didn't do so well on the test i take it?

[raycarlson]

I'd like to know also, just where up there in the great white north you you even need to worry about lighting you boat up.sounds like maybe a daydream thing.

[RobertB]

This is getting great - I love this board

Start out with a simple lighting question and soon we are going to find out who has the biggest p....ersonality (in the dark)

I am middle of the road, I prefer the several drinks after 6 pm but occasionally, like last weekend, I want to be at the right place to go fishing. I would rather launch the day/night before and stay overnight near the fishing grounds (hence the original reason for my question).
Saturday night had its moments crossing the Cheasapeake Bay in the dark, south of Annapolis (yes, we have major commercial traffic here with the port of Baltimore and they sure do keep those ships lit up ), first I was aiming for what I thought was a shore light - turned out to be a Boston Whaler coming towards me (those dang colored lights are hard to make out head-on when the white light is there also low down). Another light I guided on was the Bloody Point lighthouse - I bet when they put it there they did not intend for people to steer too close to it

Keep up the great banter - it is making my day much more interesting than it otherwise would be.

[Divecoz]

Its all fun, sometimes amusing and even educational at times.. Reading this part of your post I will submit for consideration..
"" Another light I guided on was the Bloody Point lighthouse - I bet when they put it there they did not intend for people to steer too close to it ""
Maybe the name describes the most frequently seen event?
A friend of mine who just happened to be following last nights chat , pinged me .. He lives in AK. he's been to Whitehorse has been on Lake La Berge, numerous times. Its the last lake too Ice Out in the area and the Pollution has gotten to be so bad ? Numerous species of fish are listed as .. Eat Only 1 time a Month....... Why would that be? Because they used to , Dump USED Motor Oil by the thousands of gallons on top of the ice, to speed up, the Ice Out.. He asked why anyone would care about Col Reg lighting on a lake that once iced out , it can and does have 20 hours of Daylight per day?

[RobertB]

Bloody Point lighthouse, no longer active since it burned in the 1960s but does have a small marker light, is located at the southern tip of Kent Island where I understand is the location of the most shipwrecks in the Chesapeake Bay due to the shallows between the main channel and Eastern Bay. I purposefully anchored for the night in a cove in those shallows to avoid being hit by anyone.

[DaveB]

Back in 1982 I anchored in St Mic's harbor around October, armed with 2 fold out Traps for Blue crab with chicken necks and stayed there for 1-2 week as we feasted on the Blue crabs steaming them on a 15 quart Preasure Pot over a kerosine burner boiling . Each trap produced 6-8 full size crabs and had to haul every 2-3 min.
Rum, beer and blue crabs....one can live on them.
Those were the days were one could travel and live off the Sea and land.
Dave

Bloody Point lighthouse, no longer active since it burned in the 1960s but does have a small marker light, is located at the southern tip of Kent Island where I understand is the location of the most shipwrecks in the Chesapeake Bay due to the shallows between the main channel and Eastern Bay. I purposefully anchored for the night in a cove in those shallows to avoid being hit by anyone.

[yukonbob]

Maybe the name describes the most frequently seen event?
A friend of mine who just happened to be following last nights chat , pinged me .. He lives in AK. he's been to Whitehorse has been on Lake La Berge, numerous times. Its the last lake too Ice Out in the area and the Pollution has gotten to be so bad ? Numerous species of fish are listed as .. Eat Only 1 time a Month....... Why would that be? Because they used to , Dump USED Motor Oil by the thousands of gallons on top of the ice, to speed up, the Ice Out.. He asked why anyone would care about Col Reg lighting on a lake that once iced out , it can and does have 20 hours of Daylight per day?

Yes LB one of the last lakes to ice out on the yukon river drainage (and must be the only lake in the Yukon cause I would absolutely no other place to put my boat), and doesn't do so until near the end of may, and yes they used to try and speed it up by dumping hundreds of tones of coal powder, ash and whatever else they had and occasionally motor oil in order to get the paddle wheelers through...and there are also no cruise ships on LB either...? That's because I run out of Skagway Alaska, on the ocean (that little lake called the pacific), with fishing boats, cruise ships and commercial traffic. And in Skagway with it's 6 1/2 thousand foot peaks lining the 1 1/2 mile wide channel the sun doesn't usually rise until noon and sets by seven. The 20 some hours of daylight MUST last year round up here too...right? We really only get the long hours may june and July. Then things go back to normal, like now we get 12 hours, and by December 5 hours. I have also been all over canada (not US but will one day) and to twenty of thirty Mexican States, I snow camp at least four or five big trips (7+ days) a year, although I'm usually hunting buffalo, I also hold provincial silver and bronze medals in "a sport that neutralizes age and size" as you like to say, I am also a level 2 CSIA DH ski instructor, and have skied all over Canada, and Alaska including the Chugach, I've white water kayaked class four rapids in a five foot play boat, I've paddled over 500 miles of river in one trip and so on and so on and at half your age. And you know what this has to do with any of this...sweet f**k all

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[K9Kampers]

Youz guys make me feel inadequate...
...but I once stayed at a Holiday Inn!!...

[Divecoz]

K9: I think Bob is just missing some of mine and others, points..
Many of us due to our sailing locations , never have to deal with the issues he faces ..( If that was the situation? I would NOT have just bought a home where I did. I have no desire to deal with any of that ) There by what is important for him, is not relative to me/some of us.. Lots of us are , older and have done much of what he is doing now, only difference is, we no longer desire to participate in those endeavors.. So much as to say.. If .. All Bob will ever do is snorkel why would I insist on him learning all there is to know about Deep Air Diving.. It would not be relative to his needs..It would be just a waste of time, it would be head knowledge only , knowledge that he would never need and never use..

[bscott]

It's time to say "GOOD NIGHT'

Bob

[yukonbob]

Yes DC and you are getting mine loud and clear of course. You turned this into a pi$$ match not me. The only thing I've done is try and promote safe boating habits, while you are right and can do whatever it is that you please, cause you're older wiser and have had more and greater experiences than anyone else on earth. And i have dove before, and if I want to expand my knowledge of it I will ask my father or step father, both of which are master divers, one of which is an underwater welder who has worked for the british national survey and has dove all over the world including the Antarctic Ice shelf. This wasn't about strapping on tanks and going to the bottom of the ocean knowledge, we all have boats, chances are someday someone on this board (cause its not just about you DC) is going to get stuck or find themselves out after dark or in fog and it's an important part of boating that is covered in every basic boating course. It's like saying I don't need to know about traffic lights, cause I never go near those things. And the test wasn't directed just at the centre of the universe, it was for everybody to test their knowledge and make informed decisions.
Sorry K9, none of this is to make anyone feel inadequate or hurtful (holiday inn lol). I just really can't stand when common sense is abandoned for the simple fact of i'm older so I'm smarter and always right bs.

[Divecoz]

Sorry you took offense .. do as you like .. as will I.. Have a great day..