ianwright
New member
I was nursing my ‘flu last night in the bath with a glass of hot Benalin and rum when I had a Eureka moment. I just have to share it with you…
This will be of no use to those of you with large lightweight flyers but others who struggle to the continent at three and a half knots (“If we drop to three I’ll turn the engine on.”) in converted whelk drudgers could find a bell ringing.
The problem is those shipping lane things. You know, the ones that we are supposed to cross at right angles? Don’t know about you but even if the wind serves I’m not keen on altering course 50 degrees just to satisfy some bureaucrat in a warm office, and if the wind doesn’t I’m loath to motor into the wind and a North Sea chop when the rhum line to my destination is an easy close fetch.
Now they can’t see us in daylight through the normal murk even if they were looking which they are not. But at night we attract attention to ourselves with navigation lights and if we are not “presenting the correct aspect” our lights are a dead give-away. So, I thought, What We Need Are Adjustable Nav Lights.
At the flick of a switch or the push of a lever our lights twist to present the correct aspect leaving us free to weave our way through the oblivious traffic the way our fathers did.
No, don’t thank me, and no need to send money. I offer this stroke of genius free as a boon to mankind.
IanW
<hr width=100% size=1>Vertue 203, Patience
This will be of no use to those of you with large lightweight flyers but others who struggle to the continent at three and a half knots (“If we drop to three I’ll turn the engine on.”) in converted whelk drudgers could find a bell ringing.
The problem is those shipping lane things. You know, the ones that we are supposed to cross at right angles? Don’t know about you but even if the wind serves I’m not keen on altering course 50 degrees just to satisfy some bureaucrat in a warm office, and if the wind doesn’t I’m loath to motor into the wind and a North Sea chop when the rhum line to my destination is an easy close fetch.
Now they can’t see us in daylight through the normal murk even if they were looking which they are not. But at night we attract attention to ourselves with navigation lights and if we are not “presenting the correct aspect” our lights are a dead give-away. So, I thought, What We Need Are Adjustable Nav Lights.
At the flick of a switch or the push of a lever our lights twist to present the correct aspect leaving us free to weave our way through the oblivious traffic the way our fathers did.
No, don’t thank me, and no need to send money. I offer this stroke of genius free as a boon to mankind.
IanW
<hr width=100% size=1>Vertue 203, Patience
