An inexpensive LED shows the way
Issue 103 : Jul/Aug 2015
We all know about using dollar store LED yard lights for finding our way home in an anchorage. Another handy use we’ve found aboard Thebote, our MacGregor 26D, is to charge one up in the sunny spot of the winch-handle pocket (we rarely use the handle) and then at night bring it down into the cabin, where a quick twist of the top removes the solar LED assembly.
We place the light upside down on top of the cooler that serves as our table. That one small white LED bulb chases away the otherwise complete darkness of our cabin. It creates just enough light so we can get up and find something or go to the head without turning on brighter cabin lights or locating a flashlight. It’s not so bright as to disturb sleep. As a night light, it’s just right.
Allen Penticoff, a Good Old Boat contributing editor, is a freelance writer, sailor, and longtime aviator. He has trailersailed on every Great Lake and on many inland waters and has had keelboat adventures on fresh and salt water. He presently owns an American 14.5, a MacGregor 26D, and a 1955 Beister 42-foot steel cutter that he’s restoring.
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