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John G-
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Initially Posted - 01/23/2005 : 11:58:11

I have an idea for an article for the Mainsheet.
Someone gave me a desk calendar of lighthouses and there are enough to fill the year, all in America. Many are on the Great Lakes and of course the coasts.
It occurs to me that many of our members must sail past a lighthouse or two. If you do could you take a picture of the lighthouse and if possible a picture of your boat in front of the lighthouse? Tell me a little about the lighthouse and how or why it comes into play in your sailing. This could be away for a few members to participate in a Mainsheet article. I’ll take the pictures and descriptions and edit them all together to make an article. Of course everyone who participates will get a credit.
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[url="jg949@hotmail.com"]John Gisondi[/url]
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Frank Hopper
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Response Posted - 01/23/2005 : 12:07:39

Awsome idea. I would love to see the picts and read the stories. I have never seen a lighthouse other than in a picture.

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Charlie Vick
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Response Posted - 01/23/2005 : 16:20:26

I believe there are at least two in the Mobile Bay Area.
I have some photos of one, the one on the Dauphin Island side of the entrance to the bay.
Finding it in thousands of photos I have might be more difficult than
just going back and taking some more!
Good idea John!

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Oscar
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Response Posted - 01/23/2005 : 19:20:36

Here's one, it's the Fresnel lens of the Hooper Strait Lighthouse at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum.....if you look carefully you'll see the inverted image of Lady Kay (III). Don't pull or twist anything please.....

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Ben
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Response Posted - 01/24/2005 : 07:39:10

I know this doesn't really count, because it's not my boat, and the lighthouse is really hard to see. But this is one of my favorite pictures of my wife and I thought I'd share. She and I hired an O'day 37 centercockpit sailboat a few years ago and went for a ride. We were on vacation and sailing out of Southport, North Carolina. There are no lighthouses were we live in Columbus, Ohio. The skipper, shown sitting next to my wife, fell asleep while Kel and I took turns at the wheel. He was actually snoring for a while. All in all, an excellent experience.

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JimB517
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Response Posted - 01/24/2005 : 11:47:00

Good idea, I'll try to get a photo of all the fleet 7 boats in front of Point Loma lighthouse.

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dlucier
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Response Posted - 01/24/2005 : 12:30:38

If anybody's sailed western Lake Erie, this 352ft column should be familiar...

Here's a picture of North Star from atop the monument. North Star is the smallest of the three boats by the big yellow ferry.

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Frank Hopper
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Response Posted - 01/24/2005 : 15:58:15

WOW, what an awesome marina. Is that where you berth Don?

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dlucier
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Response Posted - 01/24/2005 : 17:30:46

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by fhopper@mac.com
 WOW, what an awesome marina. Is that where you berth Don?
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No...this is not my marina, I was just visiting. This is [url="http://www.putinbay.com/"]Put-in-Bay[/url] on South Bass Island, which is one of the islands in the middle of Western Lake Erie.

Check out this [url="http://www.putinbayphotos.com/panorama/360view.html"]Panoramic View from atop Perry's Monument.[/url]

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aeckhart
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Response Posted - 01/24/2005 : 18:34:11

Don,

I see you're skilled at more than just sailing. Super camera work.
I have a number of lighthouse pictures from Lake Superior. Guess I'll finally have to learn how to post photos.

Al
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John V.
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Response Posted - 01/24/2005 : 18:39:39

Hi John, Here is the Rock of Ages light at the south end of Isle Royal in Lake Superior. It is one of the tallest in the Great Lakes.

I have a few others that are very pretty and a lot closer home near Neebish Island. I'll try find those pics and post them later.

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Champipple
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Response Posted - 01/24/2005 : 21:04:16

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by dlucier
 If anybody's sailed western Lake Erie, this 352ft column should be familiar...

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Very familiar Don - on the Lake Erie Deepwater race, that becomes a sight for sore eyes about 3in the morning...maybe 4 on some races, 5 for the bad ones. Unfortunately, thats usually the only time its on after around 11 or 12 at night. Technically it isn't a lighthouse, its a monument.... visible from about 30+ miles (check the charts for the actual)

How about this, they are in the same neighborhood and many many times you can see this and your pic at the same time

Marblehead

At one point, you could catch the ballast Island Light, Perrys, Marblehead, Kelley's Island Light (Patmos) and If your in the right spot, Vermillion all at once. Unfortunately they aren't all operational....

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Bubba
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Response Posted - 01/24/2005 : 21:56:20

John, I have four lighthouse pictures with descriptions at the bottom of my boat website http://mywebpages.comcast.net/frayed-knot/. I took the pictures but "borrowed" the descriptions from [url="http://www.cblights.com/lights/thomaspoint.asp"] The Chesapeake Bay Lighthouse Project

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Leon Sisson
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Response Posted - 01/24/2005 : 23:27:34

<center>World's Oldest Working Lighthouse</center>
<center>Elbow Reef Light, Abaco, Bahamas</center>

Catalina 25 anchored in Hope Town Harbour, May/June, 2003:

(I know, a poor shot of a great location. Sorry.)

A better shot of the lighthouse:

Links to more images of the lighthouse:
(All approx. 800x600 resolution, 80kB to 90kB each.)

[url="http://home.mpinet.net/%7Esissonl/boating/trips/Abacos2003/Abacos03_082Jm.JPG"]Fuel pressure tanks[/url]

[url="http://home.mpinet.net/%7Esissonl/boating/trips/Abacos2003/Abacos03_086Jm.JPG"]Clockwork Mechanism[/url]

[url="http://home.mpinet.net/%7Esissonl/boating/trips/Abacos2003/Abacos03_088Jm.JPG"]Lense Assembly[/url]

-- Leon Sisson

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sweetcraft
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Response Posted - 01/25/2005 : 00:25:48

Wow, great idea and great pictures. Lighthouse Digest has contest for lighthouse pictures and I believe they should have those with sailboats too. Grandfather was a Keeper on the West coast and Dad,98, was born on Ballast Point San Diego. Have sailed Snowbird, #1490, by several lighthouses but only took lighthouse pictures. Jim Sweet

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stampeder
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Response Posted - 01/25/2005 : 03:25:38

This is Fisgard Lighthouse, Canada's first westcoast lighthouse - built in 1860

And here's my daughter and I sailing from Esquimalt Harbour to Victoria Harbour with Fisgard Lighthouse in the background - note the Canadian Winter sailing wardrobe. (Jan 2/05)

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dlucier
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Response Posted - 01/26/2005 : 08:49:27

This is the reference point I use when I'm out sailing. Built in 1885, the Detroit River Light guides freighters into the Detroit River from Lake Erie. Most times when I have guests aboard, I take them out to the lighthouse and circle it a few times.

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dlucier
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Response Posted - 01/31/2005 : 12:54:29

Although technically not a lighthouse, this 45-50ft tall concrete beacon in Lake Erie shows freighter captains the fork in the channel when going up the Detroit River. (For scale, the boat next to it is a Tanzer 22)

This is what happens when a freighter captain decides not to take the fork in the road...

This happened last fall.

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Oscar
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Response Posted - 01/31/2005 : 21:53:06

Wonder if he noticed........

Oscar
C42 # 76 "Lady Kay" (Ex. C250 WB #618 )
Georgetown MD/Fort Lauderdale FL

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coach
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Response Posted - 02/01/2005 : 10:12:06

Put In Bay! I have lived in NE Indiana almost my entire life and I have never been to the islands.

Every year we say we are going to go and every year we dont for some unknown reason.

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