Greenheart
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Thanks gents. That's made my mind up, I want oil lamps. :encouragement:
The best oil for oil lamps?
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Kukri
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I have actually sailed with oil navigation lamps. For several thousand miles.
Allow a significant amount of oil; you have two of them (the traditional approach was to carry a torch in the cockpit and use that as a stern light). Good ones will not blow out but they will shake out - indeed the trad. way to put them out in the morning is to tap them on the deck.
Allow a significant amount of oil; you have two of them (the traditional approach was to carry a torch in the cockpit and use that as a stern light). Good ones will not blow out but they will shake out - indeed the trad. way to put them out in the morning is to tap them on the deck.
scottie
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Does it need to be a light viscosity?
sailorman
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Only for daytime use
Hadenough
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Hydrozoan
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There’s a curious sense of olfactory disappointment about lamp oil compared with paraffin.
Mr Cunliffe may say that ‘most of us have oil lamps in our cabins’, but I do wonder how many of us use them regularly. We tend to knock into ours on the bulkhead and have wondered about simply getting rid of them. But we’d need a couple of paintings of lighthouses to hide the holes of the lamps and the heat shields above them, so it has not happened yet - and we keep saying we ought to use them more often …
Perhaps someone has a solution involving conversion to LED ‘wicks’ and sachets of paraffin perfume?
Greenheart
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I was looking through the photos of a yacht for sale, and the owner had proudly removed a switch panel to reveal the wiring behind. It wasn't even a big yacht...oh my lord, so much tangled wiring.
If when I buy a yacht which requires electricity I can eliminate most of that, I'll be happier. Oil lamps must be a good first step.
If when I buy a yacht which requires electricity I can eliminate most of that, I'll be happier. Oil lamps must be a good first step.
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Kukri
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Best cabin light is a Tilley lamp - IF you have a skylight.
Bru
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Only if you can tolerate the hiss (which I can't)
Greenheart
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Funny. Reminiscent of W. W. Jacobs' wonderful stories of late-Victorian/Edwardian steamship hands, getting into mischief on their time off in London between voyages.
Nice to find them online: http://readcentral.com/massappealnews//chapters/WW-Jacobs/Light-Freights/002
I wonder to what extent the dim memory of warmth and colour from an oil-lamp flame is obscuring the likely reality of life aboard a plastic yacht in the darkening days of 2016?
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Bru
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It's a considerable help
(puts quite a lot of heat into the saloon when all three are lit too. Which is also a considerable help right now)emma jacob
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Highly refined liquid paraffin lamp fuel is what comes to my mind first. It is virtually odorless