{"id":474,"date":"2016-05-31T14:12:54","date_gmt":"2016-05-31T14:12:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sistermidnight.co.uk\/?p=474"},"modified":"2016-05-31T14:42:51","modified_gmt":"2016-05-31T14:42:51","slug":"474","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sistermidnight.co.uk\/?p=474","title":{"rendered":"Let there be Nav Lights"},"content":{"rendered":"

Up early to get down to the Queensbay Mall and buy some power tools and food.<\/p>\n

\"walk\"I took a new direction on the walk there and found a lovely spot where I saw some otters, at least I think that\u2019s what they where, they ran from behind a tree and jumped into the sea when they heard me. I took a picture of the coast here and zoomed in so you can see the poor things trying to escape from me. I have that affect on all animals, in fact not just animals \u2026.<\/p>\n

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At the Mall lots of kids were queuing with there parents to go into the Lego thing, I take an interest due to being the winner of a major lego competition back in 1965, (aged 7) where I won the biggest lego set you could imagine, I believe I won the prize because I named the competition\u00a0lego town “OGEL town”, pretty clever eh!<\/p>\n

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So taxi back to the boat, I can tell you, you don\u2019t need to visit no gym when your carry 5 litre jugs of water and a stack of other heavy goods up and down pontoons.<\/p>\n

After a spot of lunch I started hacking at the mast lighting cables under the floor of the living room, or under the main cabin sole, for the more nautical of you.<\/p>\n

\"lights-wiring-2\"As you can see from the pictures, these connecters were beyond redemption, as where all the cables going into them, most snapped off with a little flexing.\"lights-wiring\"Fortunately there was enough slack in the cables to cut them back to useable ends. Now they are all connected up and looking good. All I had to do was wait for sunset, which wouldn\u2019t be long and I could see what was working.<\/p>\n

You probably know this, but being just a few degrees north of the equator the sun sets and rises at pretty much the same time every day, it sets at 7:28 PM and rises at 07:04 AM, 24 minutes longer than 12 hours for the day, I suppose in the middle of winter the day is 11:36 minutes long.<\/p>\n

Anyway at 19:30 I popped out to see\u00a0which lights I had working, and which switches they belonged on. I was very pleased to see I now have an anchor light on the top of the mast, with a tricolour below it. I also have a Spreader\/Deck light on the port side, but the Starboard side is dead, along with the steaming light. I bet the steaming light is just a bad connection, as it was showing a low resistance when I measured it, but once I applied power it went open circuit. So it\u2019s just the steaming light that needs fixing, this is a legal requirement, but I will look at the spreader as well when I go up the mast tomorrow. All in all not a bad days work.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m planning on having a play with the dinghy and outboard motor tomorrow, if possible I\u2019m going to go out, anchor off the harbour at sunset and try to catch some dinner.<\/p>\n

Paul C.<\/p>\n

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