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Lighthouse
Navigation aid - usually automatic. Controlled by the coast guard.
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Lighthouse
A navigational light placed on a structure on land.
Lightweight anchor
An anchor that has pivoting flukes that dig into the ground as tension is placed on the anchor. It does not have a stock.
Lighthouse
A navigational light placed on a structure on land. The supporting structure was a house in which the person that maintained the light lived. Most modern lighthouses no longer have living areas.
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lighthouse
An aid to navigation that is a conspicuous building displaying a light and often sounding a horn in poor visibility.
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Lights: Lighthouses or beacons; fixed aids to navigation that are equipped with light sources having certain prescribed characteristics.
Aid to navigation Any fixed object that a navigator may use to find his position, such as permanent land or sea markers, buoys, radio beacons, and lighthouses. Anchor locker A locker used to store the anchor rode and anchor.
Light - A lit navigational aid such as a lighthouse that can be used at night or in poor visibility.
Light List - A list of navigational lights arranged in geographical order, giving the position and characteristics.
Backstaff a navigation instrument used to measure the apparent height of a landmark whose actual height is known, such as the top of a lighthouse. From this information, the ship's distance from that landmark can be calculated.
The point with the lighthouse on it bears correct magnetic N. by W., and the point with the tree on it E. by N. You lay the parallel rules over the compass on your chart at N. by W., and work them to the lighthouse, preserving the direction.
Using a depth sounder or echo sounder can help you approach a lighthouse, marking the way to a harbor. You can use chart depths to intersect a bearing line and give yourself a fix.
I should have been wary of sailing to Lighthouse Reef atoll after our inauspicious departure. Four adventure-minded but mostly inexperienced sailors had joined me in San Pedro, Belize, aboard my 44-foot steel ketch.
IALA: International Association of Lighthouse Authorities
Ice sailing: Navigating vessels on blades over ice using sails
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Longfellow - The Lighthouse - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
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bearing - The direction of an object (buoy, lighthouse, another ship) expressed either as a true bearing as shown on the chart, or as a bearing relative to the heading of the boat. Bearings can be by radar, GPS, radio or visual.
Range Lights: A set of two small lighthouses, aligned so that if a vessel lines them up, they will be guided safely into a harbour, through narrow channels.
The direction of an object from the observer. "The lighthouse is at a bearing of 90 degrees."
bearing
A direction an object is relative to the observer (based on the compass heading).
Any fixed object that a navigator may use to find his position, such as permanent land or sea markers, buoys, radio beacons, and lighthouses.
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It was invented by Robert Stevenson, for use by an 82 ton converted fishing boat, Pharos, which was used as a lightvessel between 1807 and 1810 near to Bell Rock whilst the lighthouse was being constructed. It was equipped with a 1.5 ton example.
In most cases the demarcation line follows the shoreline. Where it doesn't, the line is laid out as a series of straight lines connecting prominent points, such as lighthouses or the ends of jetties.
to the life-boat authorities at all times, by day and night, when the life-boats are required for service; and further, that a Royal Commission should be appointed to consider the desirability of electrically connecting the rock lighthouses, ...
In English Bay there is a lighthouse at Point Atkinson, buoys to mark the beaches, fixed markers for the low tide shoals at Spanish Banks and solar powered flashing beacons at the mouth of False Creek with red right returning and green to port.
 See also: Light, Boat, Navigation, Point, Stern
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