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Recommended Lifesling Lights & Charts for Offshore SSS races
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I'm using this little guy. It's supposed to flash only when it's floating right side up. The first one I ordered kept flashing most of the time when it was upside down, so I complained to the vendor and ultimately to the maker in Italy. Eventually they sent me a new one. It's better, but it still flashes once in a while when it gets too excited. So I would have to agree with Bob J.
It doesn't come with a mounting bracket. I bought a Plastimo mount for at least as much as the light cost, but it was too tight to release quickly. So now I just stuff the light upside down on top of the yellow line in my Lifesling bag. I see the flashing through the bag, but it's not too annoying.
https://www.lalizas.com/product/152-lifebuoy-lights/5886-stella-lifebuoy-led-light-solas
I still have a big old Guest strobe light that hangs upside down on the stern pulpit, powered by a 6-volt lantern battery. But, you know, weight!
It doesn't come with a mounting bracket. I bought a Plastimo mount for at least as much as the light cost, but it was too tight to release quickly. So now I just stuff the light upside down on top of the yellow line in my Lifesling bag. I see the flashing through the bag, but it's not too annoying.
https://www.lalizas.com/product/152-lifebuoy-lights/5886-stella-lifebuoy-led-light-solas
I still have a big old Guest strobe light that hangs upside down on the stern pulpit, powered by a 6-volt lantern battery. But, you know, weight!
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NANCY doesn't have a proper nav station; we use the head compartment sitting on the porta potty with a small shelf for that. So along with the big paper charts I carry a N. California Chart Book. Water proof (well sort of).
For the Lifesling and overboard equipment lights, a pair of old Guest 6 volt "upside down" strobe lights. Yes, I just jam the Lifesling light upside down inside the bag. I've used them since my Newport 30 in the 1980s, so they've travelled thousands of ocean miles! I hope to retire them without using them. Every time I change the batteries it brings back my model airplane days and flipping that prop with an old 6 volt battery heating the glow plug and the smell of nitro fuel. I still have 10 fingers!
For the Lifesling and overboard equipment lights, a pair of old Guest 6 volt "upside down" strobe lights. Yes, I just jam the Lifesling light upside down inside the bag. I've used them since my Newport 30 in the 1980s, so they've travelled thousands of ocean miles! I hope to retire them without using them. Every time I change the batteries it brings back my model airplane days and flipping that prop with an old 6 volt battery heating the glow plug and the smell of nitro fuel. I still have 10 fingers!