Anybody got a yawl?

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Well, have a butchers at mine - I'm just thinking through my nav-light task over the winter, and I'm trying to work out the best position for a sternlight. It's the mast obstructing it that worries me - would a lamp mounted on the cockpit coaming, offset 6 inches from the centreline work alright?

If not, any other suggestions?

Thanks in advance,

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Hehe - was not my intention to show off my girl's back end, but in retrospect I think I should have taken the time to do a larger image zoomed in on the coaming. I hadn't thought of the mast option, which would seem to be the most sensible, with a curved block to attach it perhaps...

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It was her counter that made me buy her when I really shouldn't have done - I was looking at small boats in the £5000 range, but circumstances made buying her possible. Since then, life has been very hard, but I have never looked back. Love at first sight clearly does exist, although I have yet to experience it out of boating circles...

Mariposa, I can bore you senseless with her history if you want, my profile doesn't tell that much. Her website should soon carry a good deal of information about her, too, I'm cracking on with it whilst working nights and staying in bed with a laptop all day.

About these faired-in nav lights - what do you think of these?

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I'm not sure I can actually fit them but, goodness, they look sexy in that picture...

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Do you have the lamp housing? The shape of it will have a strong influence of where you can put it. If it can be free-standing then the aft face of the mast below the boom is one possibility, on top of the bumkin is another. Consider how you are going to run the lead to it, and this will also have a bearing on where you put it. If you are going to make a new bumkin, you could incorporate the lead into it by carving a channel in its underside, ending in a vertical hole through the bumkin to the lamp housing. Does that help at all?
Peter.
 
Certainly does, PD. I have seen some lights, from the same family as the flush jobbies I mention above, which are hemispherical - how would it look, do you think, to position one of these on the very end of the bumkin, after the cranse iron, or even to design the new bumkin to accept a flush-fitted circular lamp at it's very end. Not very traditional, I guess, but interesting. Then again, I've just finished a ten-hour nightshift and the conceptual part of my brain is not to be trusted after this much fatigue!

Either way, I certainly think it's a cracking idea to work the lamp mounting into a new bumkin design. Even if I choose not to replace the whole bumkin, I can incorporate something into the new section to be scarphed in.

Many thanks, sir!

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About these faired-in nav lights - what do you think of these?


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On a Chris -Craft motor boat - fine. On a beautiful 1920's yawl - horrid!
 
Lovely boat. I think the correct light would be one of those small dome lights in a chromed brass holder that shields the light from the forward quandrant. It should be on the centre-line at the lip of the counter. Perko make them, Fig. 0965 in their catalogue.
I currently have my boat in Texas and they are all yawls there - everyone you pass shouts Hi, Y'all!
 
How about a more traditional idea. Maybe putting a lamp on the lip of the coaming on top of the transom. It can look well by making a nicely carved Mahogany L-shaped mount for the light to sit in that matches the coaming. Advantages: Leads can still pass through lazarette, no need to drill holes in the mast, and will sustain less knocks than on the end of your bumkin! You need to find the correct lights though. I bought my bronze ones from Timage. I found it very hard getting cheap, good quality trad lights - these seemed good value and cheap. They come in chrome plated bronze too.

(PS. As for the knocks, I assure you its Sod's law that it will happen. I have never sailed a yacht where lights mounted forward on the pushpit have not been bent or damaged in some way!)
 
The faired-in light which you have shown is fine, as Twisterowner says , for a Chris-Craft or Riva, but not for Crystal, I'm afraid. Two suitable variants are [a] on light boards fixed to the shrouds, or incorporated into the front outer corner of a pair of extra-long Dorade boxes mounted on the cabin roof. You could use the larger Aqua-Signal ones with light boxes and discreetly mounted on a bracket under the mizzen boom gooseneck. All converted to LEDs, of course!

When I said "on the bumkin", I had in mind somewhere in the vicinity of a gammon iron if there is one. Out at the end of the bumkin will be terribly vulnerable.
Peter.
 
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Fair enough, back to the hunt then. I am trying to find something a bit different, in stainless, and already LED powered (although, of course, conversion is perfectly simple thanks to PD's article on the subject). I had certainly considered putitng the sidelights on the shrouds on boards, but rather as a last resort. I'm going to sit down with a pencil and some printouts of her layout tonight at work and sketch out all the ideas posted here. Many thanks for your input, everyone.

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Re: Anybody got a yawl UNDER 12 METRES LOA?

If so, then an allround white at the masthead can replace separate stern and steaming lights. Some wizardry with DPDT switches will enable you to use the m'head alone as an anchor light OR combined with sidelights (combined in a pulpit bicolour possibly?) when motoring.

Apologies if your have to house your sprit to comply . . .
 
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