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03-09-2016, 01:41
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#61
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Senior Cruiser
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Cruising Indian Ocean / Red Sea - home is Zimbabwe
Boat: V45
Posts: 1,352
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Re: Olive Oil For Hurricane Lamps
We have a Den Haan which has stood up for to the marine environment for 20 plus years years. We have used it once!
I tried adding an image but still have not figured how to do this.
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Originally Posted by meatservo
So can anyone recommend a modern quality oil lamp for backup in the event all of your power was compromised?
The problem with candles in a hot tropical environment is they tend to transform into something unrecognizable...
Just sayin'
meatservo
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03-09-2016, 02:01
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#62
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2013
Location: Back in Montt.
Boat: Westerly Sealord
Posts: 8,178
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Re: Olive Oil For Hurricane Lamps
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Originally Posted by Bulawayo
We have a Den Haan which has stood up for to the marine environment for 20 plus years years. We have used it once!
I tried adding an image but still have not figured how to do this.
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Choose file, upload file ( make sure not to big) , close window,
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03-09-2016, 02:12
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#63
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Senior Cruiser
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Cruising Indian Ocean / Red Sea - home is Zimbabwe
Boat: V45
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Re: Olive Oil For Hurricane Lamps
Many thanks El Ping !
Guess I should have looked a bit deeper. So, here is the attachment.
Presonally, I would not bother with an oil lamp again, We aso carry a Coleman petrol lamp with automatic ignition that gets used on forays ashore and that really produces serious light output - just remember to carry spare mantles.
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03-09-2016, 08:33
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#64
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Back in Northern California working on the Ranch
Boat: Pearson 365 Sloop and 9' Fatty Knees.
Posts: 10,466
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Re: Olive Oil For Hurricane Lamps
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Originally Posted by Steady Hand
Your speculations may be criticized by some anti-speculators, but I suspect some speculating is useful to those with a more open mind considering things.
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...or it's just another method of serial posting. If you really want to speculate, try your local coffee shop in the morning. There's usually a crowd there that has an opinion on everything that's going on in the world. Y'all fit right in.
I have a friend who is a writer. One of his characters in one of his books while standing in front of a window would duck every 5 seconds for 5 seconds. When asked why he did this, the character had speculated that if he ducked in this way, he reduced the chances of being hit by a rock by 50%.
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03-09-2016, 08:45
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#65
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Back in Northern California working on the Ranch
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Re: Olive Oil For Hurricane Lamps
I have the Den Haan Trawler lamp.
I've owned it for more years than I can remember and it has been on 4 of my boats. A few years back I was selling my Rawson Pilothouse and a Russian chap was hassling me about it's patina appearance. I kept telling him I enjoyed the vintage look. He kept on and on about how I would like it better if I polished it up his way. I suppose he was speculating I would like it better that way.
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03-09-2016, 09:16
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#66
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Marine Service Provider
Join Date: Jul 2014
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Re: Olive Oil For Hurricane Lamps
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Originally Posted by Celestialsailor
...or it's just another method of serial posting. If you really want to speculate, try your local coffee shop in the morning. There's usually a crowd there that has an opinion on everything that's going on in the world. Y'all fit right in.
I have a friend who is a writer. One of his characters in one of his books while standing in front of a window would duck every 5 seconds for 5 seconds. When asked why he did this, the character had speculated that if he ducked in this way, he reduced the chances of being hit by a rock by 50%.
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Since you evidently don't like my posts, comments, opinions, writing style, or contributions to open discussions, why don't you simply ignore them?
I generally ignore your offtopic and snarky remarks. It is easy to do. I have done so since joining here.
Here is a friendly and simple suggestion for you: you can add me to your "ignore list" using the forum software, so you won't see my posts or comments.
I can only speculate why you don't.
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03-09-2016, 09:44
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#67
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Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: Pangaea
Posts: 10,856
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Re: Olive Oil For Hurricane Lamps
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Originally Posted by Celestialsailor
I have the Den Haan Trawler lamp.
I've owned it for more years than I can remember and it has been on 4 of my boats. A few years back I was selling my Rawson Pilothouse and a Russian chap was hassling me about it's patina appearance. I kept telling him I enjoyed the vintage look. He kept on and on about how I would like it better if I polished it up his way. I suppose he was speculating I would like it better that way.
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Oh wait, I was wrong. The lamp you pictured is the he one we have.
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03-09-2016, 09:52
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#68
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2011
Location: Planet earth
Boat: Hans Christian 41
Posts: 300
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Re: Olive Oil For Hurricane Lamps
We burn citronella lamp oil in our lamps, keeps the beasties away.
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03-09-2016, 12:31
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#69
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Back in Northern California working on the Ranch
Boat: Pearson 365 Sloop and 9' Fatty Knees.
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Re: Olive Oil For Hurricane Lamps
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Originally Posted by Steady Hand
Since you evidently don't like my posts, comments, opinions, writing style, or contributions to open discussions, why don't you simply ignore them?
I generally ignore your offtopic and snarky remarks. It is easy to do. I have done so since joining here.
Here is a friendly and simple suggestion for you: you can add me to your "ignore list" using the forum software, so you won't see my posts or comments.
I can only speculate why you don't.
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Your take is exactly what I expected. No reason to change anything you're doing. I'll stop since you like to bicker on.
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03-09-2016, 12:37
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#70
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Registered User
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Re: Olive Oil For Hurricane Lamps
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Originally Posted by Kenomac
Oh wait, I was wrong. The lamp you pictured is the he one we have.
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In your earlier post you mentioned the heat they produce. After lighting them and letting them heat up, then throttling them back, I found mine to be an adequate heat source in an anchorage in Northern Ca. and even in Mx in the winter. I'll have to admit, I like them mostly for esthetic reasons...they give off a warm glow and look a little salty. Underway I bungie the base to the galley table and in rougher seas, wrap it in a towel and stow it in a locker. I also bought a baby one that I use on my back deck of my home in Ca. It's really useless for the boat.
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03-09-2016, 12:57
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#71
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Senior Cruiser
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Cruising Indian Ocean / Red Sea - home is Zimbabwe
Boat: V45
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Re: Olive Oil For Hurricane Lamps
Ours is screwed to the bulkhead via a gimballed mount. To say it has a 'patina' is a bit of an understatement. We also use citronella oil - not sure if does any good tho'. We take our lamp out of the gimball and use it in the cockpit once in a blue moon. Its much easier and less hassle/risk just to use our yellow LED light. We also use a portable anchor light with a yellow wrap if we are out on the foredeck as it has a long power lead.
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Originally Posted by Celestialsailor
In your earlier post you mentioned the heat they produce. After lighting them and letting them heat up, then throttling them back, I found mine to be an adequate heat source in an anchorage in Northern Ca. and even in Mx in the winter. I'll have to admit, I like them mostly for esthetic reasons...they give off a warm glow and look a little salty. Underway I bungie the base to the galley table and in rougher seas, wrap it in a towel and stow it in a locker. I also bought a baby one that I use on my back deck of my home in Ca. It's really useless for the boat.
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03-09-2016, 15:22
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#72
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: sydney, australia
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Re: Olive Oil For Hurricane Lamps
The hurricane lamp hasnt changed in design for 100 years since it was invented. What has changed is the price – I bought 2 in a camping store because they were about half size and $12 each. I bought 2 that were even smaller for $6 each a while later – i liked the smaller ones as they seemed better in scale in my main saloon. I havent used them much in the last couple of years – they arent quite bright enough to read by and my fluoro cabin lights dont seem to overtax the batteries. But they are a pleasant light to sit around listening to the radio to, or just daydreaming...
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22-02-2017, 23:16
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#73
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2013
Location: Malta
Boat: Nicholson 26
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Re: Olive Oil For Hurricane Lamps
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Originally Posted by TrentePieds
Qoute: "Why didnt I already know about this!?!"
Cos of a guy called Jaydee - J.D. Rockefeller. His daddy was into oil too - snake oil :-)
We see the origins of the "Military Industrial Complex right here: In 1910, as I recall, the first "oilburners" were authorized for the USN, viz USS Nevada and the USS Oklahoma, both commissioned in 1916. Alfred Mahan, he of The influence of Sea Power upon History felt himself vindicated and permitted himself an extra glass of port. Instant shock and awe, instant "total spectrum dominance".
The Pommies hadn't done so badly either with Jackie Fisher's Dreadnaught and their Anglo-Persian Oil Company.
Also: Unter die Sonne, nichts Neues. But that's why you didn't know, and that is why there are still - a few - sperm whales left:-)
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Sorry, friend but even if the sun has a lot of a female in German its a male: Unter der Sonne nichts Neues.
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23-02-2017, 00:24
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#74
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Moderator
Join Date: Jun 2015
Posts: 6,174
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Re: Olive Oil For Hurricane Lamps
Nope. The sun is most definitely female auf Deutsch. It's the moon that's male - weird, these Germans :-)
Nevertheless, you are right: I was wrong. Not because I gibbled the gender. but because I gibbled the declination. The article "die" is declined through the four cases, nominative, accusative, genitive and dative as "die", "die", "der", "der"
An arbitrary rules sez that the adjective "unter" always takes the dative case. I clearly "misspoke myself" [where did THAT come from?? Musta come via Ms. Google :-)] because I misremembered and mistakenly used the accusative case. Mea culpa!
Aber was machst du? Erweckst du die Toten :-)
Besten Grüße
TrentePieds
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27-02-2017, 21:21
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#75
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2011
Location: Portland, OR, USA
Boat: Hallberg Rassy 35'
Posts: 1,200
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Re: Olive Oil For Hurricane Lamps
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Originally Posted by Celestialsailor
I have the Den Haan Trawler lamp.
I've owned it for more years than I can remember and it has been on 4 of my boats. ...
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Funny, I have that lamp over the saloon table in my HR35 and I run a bungee to the table when sailing. Of course I live further north, but find it takes the chill off the spring/fall evenings.
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