LIGHTHOUSES OF THE WORLD.

Chart of that view



The actual webcam view (in Open Streemap)

our lights and the Canadian lights are usually "decked" so that when you are dead on (and not using GPS or Radar) you can VFR it strait home without piling up anywhre. e dont use yellow just white , and a bit green and less red. (Red , in and around industrial areas like Baltimore harbor , jut get lost in the mess of other reds that FAA has approved for plans)

I try to do most of my inside passaging during the daytime. Last year we delivered 3 boats via the intercoastal waterway and we had rel comfortable navigating because we docked around dusk and sat around or visited the towns for a shore meal.

you said that you were on a mine sweeper at one time? Are all those boats non metal hulled?

One of my 18-months (half a year training/school before). Until 1974 a couple of weeks each year as reserve officer, than landing craft as "rchief petty officer navigation (reserve)".

We had only non-magnetic steel and brass on board, and - correct - the hull was made of wood: above the waterline 3 layers are glued together with intermediate insulation. The first and third layers of mahogany are parallel to the keel, the middle layer of teak diagonal. Below the waterline was a fourth layer of oak.



That photo taken in September 1970, in the Jade Estuary and it became the official photo.
We were compensating our compass, had anchored the night before, when the photographer was announced. Unfortunately, I forgot to take the take down the radio and tv aerials - costed me a couple of beers.

The sémaphore, the ruins of the abbey, and the Saint-Mathieu lighthouse ( Pointe Saint-Mathieu in Plougonvelin, around Brest in Finistère, France)

On the Polish part of the island of Usedom, in Świnoujście ("Swinemünde") is Stawa Młyny ("Mühlenbake"), a beacon in the shape of a windmill.






Postcard from 1902,

That windmill dingus isnt very convincing(like putting shutters on a pictur window, you know its dumb because it looks dumb)

I was asking about minesweepers because the US, in its wisdom, has declared that minesweepers are not going to be used in the "future navy". That alone is dumbheaded thinking by eclaring what the enemy will not use.
I saw a cuple of those advanced hull carbon fibre hulled EU minesweepers and patrol boats you guys were building . I see that , in a new war, the enemy will, among other short termgoals, try to confound all our "interconnected" technology amd then pick off the rest .
LIKE we are building aircraft carriers and jets, while China is building subs and advanced long distance drones.

Like Ive always told Georgeob. In the modern navy, I think the world navies will have submarines or TARGETS.

Probably after this freeze, the inner lighthouse on Lake Erie, (Erie Pa) will again look like this . The Commerce Dept has the responsibility to chip all the ice off and relight the bulb, (As soon as they start getting paid)

I really cleared mines in 1970: once, because of the widening of the traffic separation area German Bight, this with our whole squadron.
Then the route for the then new ferry route Harwich-Hamburg. This was really "criminal", because the area was still totally uncleared, we only did it with three boats and under time pressure. (The buoy tender was already waiting.)
[We had had a red book, a loose-leaf collection, for the "mine risk areas". Changed every week, becoming smaller and smaller.]

From the early 1970's onwards, minesweeping chanced totally. (My boat was the guinea pig for various "new stuff" to be tested, but from 1974 onward my reserve unit became the landing craft squadron.)

But classical minesweeping is still done against moored mines, using towed wire cutters to cut the anchors of mines can be conducted.

Since it's rather stormy today, you might catch some spectacular live views

Happisburgh (pronounced "Haisbro") Lighthouse in Happisburgh on the North Norfolk coast is the only independently operated lighthouse in Great Britain. It is also the oldest working lighthouse in East Anglia.


Fl(3)30s, range 14 miles, still using the optic installed in 1868.


Interesting, where the lighthouse is situated today and has been 20years ago:

Left: 1996; right: 2019 (Source: Mike Page/SWNS via The Independent)

I really like the comparative pix of the coast with and without the groins in place. Although its evident that its eroding, the long shore drift seems to be fairly stable (except for the missing beach in the middle).


Looks like the lighthouse has about another 100 years before it topples (We let one topple in Delaware in 1926 and its a diving site today.)

Te coast especially in East Anglis is eroding faster than ever thought. They are losing areas there that they didn’t expect to lose at all. (See >all 10 photos< from above link)

Top 10 lighthouses in fiction

Not so minor digression:
Coming out soon, The Lighthouse (2019), a critical darling of a psychological thriller/ghost (?) story starring Willem Dafoe chewing up the lighthouse scenery.

Ill take a chance. I like movies about boats, sailing vessels, the sea, or easide towns. Maybe I should add lighthouses.

I plan on seeing this opening weekend (and I HATE Razzie winning Twilight alum Robert Pattinson. Some critics have claimed he's grown much acting wise since his turn as a sparkly vampire).

never saw an episode. Vampires arent loveable, theyre evil blood sucking creatures like in "From Dusk Till Dawn".
THAT was a good vampire flick.

Yeah! And they support ******* Arsenal.

The Danish west coast is crumbling - and the tourist attraction Rubjerg Knude Fyr threatens to fall into the sea. Now the lighthouse is being moved about 70 metres inland at snail's pace.

The lighthouse is visited by 250,000 people every year. It is surrounded by a desert-like sand landscape. It has not been in operation since 1968. Because of the sand dunes its light could not be seen from the sea.

>Watch: Denmark moves lighthouse due to erosion<

The headline on the BBC website gives a bit more information.



Bloody clever fish!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-50139900