Find anchored yacht in dark.

[Minerva]

There are usually a bunch of oil anchor lights and Not Under Command lights on ebay but be very careful - the genuine cone burner type are rare, if intact.

Davey & Co. Ltd patented the design and other makers used ordinary oil lamp glasses which are probably fine up to F7.

People have often bought the copper ones as knickknacks, polished them to death and thrown out the nasty smelly oil burners.

Here’s a thread from 2003, featuring the late Ian Wright and I:

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Thread 'Anchor Light/Chandlers'

3 Jun 2003

Can anyone advise me of a good WEBsite to purchase a more traditional parrafin riding light from (not the pressed and dipped variety which 'jump' around alarmingly before rusting up)

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• hurley_happy
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I bought a lovely old riding light from eBay. Chucked out the oil burner and put in a modern LED. It’s a thing that gives me great pleasure to hang up at anchor now.

 

[14K478]

I bought a lovely old riding light from eBay. Chucked out the oil burner and put in a modern LED. It’s a thing that gives me great pleasure to hang up at anchor now.
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I did that, too, but I bought a cheap galvanised one that had lost its oil burner, in order to have a spare - the LED unit goes very nicely inside it.

 

[Poignard]

I did that, too, but I bought a cheap galvanised one that had lost its oil burner, in order to have a spare - the LED unit goes very nicely inside it.

For those of a nostalgic disposition, can you buy LEDs that replicate the special smoky orange glow that oil lamps produce?

 

[Fr J Hackett]

There are usually a bunch of oil anchor lights and Not Under Command lights on ebay but be very careful - the genuine cone burner type are rare, if intact.

Davey & Co. Ltd patented the design and other makers used ordinary oil lamp glasses which are probably fine up to F7.

People have often bought the copper ones as knickknacks, polished them to death and thrown out the nasty smelly oil burners.

Here’s a thread from 2003, featuring the late Ian Wright and I:

H

Thread 'Anchor Light/Chandlers'

3 Jun 2003

Can anyone advise me of a good WEBsite to purchase a more traditional parrafin riding light from (not the pressed and dipped variety which 'jump' around alarmingly before rusting up)

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• hurley_happy
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• Forum: Practical Boat Owner's Reader to Reader

Guilty as charged your honour. When I was a diver my diving partner and myself located what we believed to be a 1st world war merchantman mid channel which not to put to finer point on it was below the 50M depth regarded as the limit for sports divers on air. Nonetheless we over a couple of weeks made a number of visits to it, my RIB was fitted with a Phillips Decca receiver and chart recording echo sounder and we had a small magnetometer. The visibility was very good considering but the decompression stops were long. However we found what we considered to be the lamp room and recovered a number of oil lights two of which I converted to electric lighting and for a long time sat on the bar in my home. Sadly we never found the bell or the bridge telegraphs but managed to also with some difficulty extracted two full brass portholes complete with covers.

 

[14K478]

For those of a nostalgic disposition, can you buy LEDs that replicate the special smoky orange glow that oil lamps produce?

That reminds me of a magic moment in my long ownership of “Mirelle”. We were taking a German maritime photographer to get some pictures of the Colne Smack and Barge Race. We found our way into Pyefleet in a light air, “by the dawn’s early light”; it was misty and every boat in Pyefleet was either a smack or a barge and they all had paraffin riding lights hoisted on their forestays.

For half an hour, until the light grew stronger, we were transported back in time by a century.

Dieter got his pictures a few hours later, standing on Mersea Stone as everything thundered past “at a biscuit’s toss” from the beach

 

[Tamar]

Tie a piece of string to the yacht and pay it out as you row ashore.

Or even better, get some breadcrumbs and leave a trail back to the boat, thus not trapping a passing jet ski

 

[Chiara’s slave]

Or even better, get some breadcrumbs and leave a trail back to the boat, thus not trapping a passing jet ski

I’m sorry, I thought that was the whole idea. One of our favourite sports is to chase them when the sea has got up a bit, and they can’t go flat out.

 

[Boathook]

You guys need to run a more distinctive boat. We never have trouble finding ours. A gloss white mast helps a lot, plus the pre bend and diamonds, and the er, different shape on the water.

Don't you wade out to your boat. I have done to my previous one and yours draws even less !

 

[Chiara’s slave]

Don't you wade out to your boat. I have done to my previous one and yours draws even less !

Depends what the bottom is. Sand, sure. Chichester mud, not so much

 

[billskip]

Don't you wade out to your boat. I have done to my previous one and yours draws even less !

Which reminds me ...my boat was a mono,2 mtrs draught, and always took a dive off the side for a swim..Went to Isla de Coche on a cat, took a dive off the side into 18 inches of water, gives one a bit of a headache....

 

[fredrussell]

Everything I have is for sale but I'm afraid you're too late, that went last year

He’s not kidding folks. I bumped into Poignard last weekend strolling down Portsmouth High St and in a spur of the moment deal, bought the very trousers he was wearing. Very nice narrow leg chinos and freshly laundered to boot. Only propriety prevented us striking a deal on his y-fronts too.

 

[billskip]

He’s not kidding folks. I bumped into Poignard last weekend strolling down Portsmouth High St and in a spur of the moment deal, bought the very trousers he was wearing. Very nice narrow leg chinos and freshly laundered to boot. Only propriety prevented us striking a deal on his y-fronts too.

You'd have paid through the nose for the y- fronts....

 

[sailorman]

Most unseamanlike I know, but I put a couple of small flashing bicycle lights on the rails, one on the bow and one on the stern. Particularly useful when anchored among other boats. As per #3 I also use Navionics on my phone if I have to anchor out of sight of where I'm going ashore, but that's something I try to avoid especially in the dark.

leave a cabin light on, then you can ID own vessel

 

[Irish Rover]

leave a cabin light on, then you can ID own vessel

Do all boats not have cabin light?

 

[Minerva]

Or make it fail safe - stick on the disco ball and have blaring music to boot whilst you’re away. Make finding your boat easy!

 

[Daverw]

a. Leave a cockpit light on. Simple. With LEDs they burn nothing. Obviously, the anchor light is on, but that does not keep drunks from hitting the boat, so leave some lights on.

b. If you would like, it is simple and about $30 to add a wireless switch to the lights, triggered by a fob on your key chain. But (a) is better.

I’ve just done that with shelly1 and tough button, also now integrates into cerbo GX so more toys to play with