"Where's this?"

Telo · Post by **Telo** » Tue Oct 28, 2014 11:51 pm

HINT: just in case any non-sailors on the forum don't recognise what it is, the generic name for the structure itself rhymes with "toilet". But which one? Where is it?

Storyline · Post by **Storyline** » Wed Oct 29, 2014 12:22 am

Don't know but going o/t isn't there some kind of google app where you can show an image of something and it will identify it ? (not to cheat in whereizzits but just curious)

Post by **Silkie** » Wed Oct 29, 2014 12:52 am

Shard wrote:HINT: just in case any non-sailors on the forum don't recognise what it is, the generic name for the structure itself rhymes with "toilet".

Telo · Post by **Telo** » Wed Oct 29, 2014 12:55 am

Silkie wrote:
Shard wrote:HINT: just in case any non-sailors on the forum don't recognise what it is, the generic name for the structure itself rhymes with "toilet".

©William Connolly.......

Alan_D · Post by **Alan_D** » Wed Oct 29, 2014 2:10 am

Storyline wrote:Don't know but going o/t isn't there some kind of google app where you can show an image of something and it will identify it ? (not to cheat in whereizzits but just curious)

Yes, it's called TinEye, and in this case it produced no matches.

mm5aho · Post by **mm5aho** » Wed Oct 29, 2014 8:56 am

That's one on my list of Lighthouses to land on, but so far weather has prevented. I've visited the quarry on an island where the stone came from, looked through the sighting points to see it 14 miles away, been to its (slightly taller) sister to the west near another island.
I understand that red band was mainly to be able to differentiate it from that sister light not so far away.

aquaplane · Post by **aquaplane** » Wed Oct 29, 2014 9:20 am

Ahaa, the sighting points gave it away, I had a look through the little windows on our September cruise but didn't see anything. I couldn't remember the name of the place but found it with a little search.

I'm not sure I would want to go there.

Storyline · Post by **Storyline** » Wed Oct 29, 2014 10:18 am

Thanks

probably works better with pictures that are in the public domain rather than personal ones - could be useful though

mm5aho · Post by **mm5aho** » Wed Oct 29, 2014 1:30 pm

I have a chart, drawn at the time of construction, of the rocks surrounding this rock on which the light stands. That makes the chart over a century old, but I wonder if any of those rocks have moved much? I reckon that in good weather, it would be possible to anchor between these other rocks and row across. That's what I did at the other nearby lighthouse, but we could only land for about 30 mins before I was nervous of leaving the boat in charge of the huge number of seals that were in attendance.

Landing on these rocks certainly causes my admiration of the Stevenson family to increase!

I wouldn't like to get shipwrecked near here, or have to make my way to Appin on foot in the dark from here.

Telo · Post by **Telo** » Wed Oct 29, 2014 3:40 pm

Geoff, I had a feeling that you'd be the one to get it.

Anyone else?

mm5aho · Post by **mm5aho** » Wed Oct 29, 2014 8:56 pm

This lighthouse has an interesting story...

It is built on a smooth hump rock of green basalt, 240ft x 130ft standing 35ft above normal spring tides.
The urgency to build the lighthouse was demonstrated in 1886, when over the 2 day storms of December 30 & 31st, 24 ships were sunk in the vicinity.
The light was first lit on 1 Nov 1872.
The tower stands 38m high, with the light at 44m asl. It's been automatic since 1971.
During the building, when at the 3rd course of stones, 35 ft above MHW, a storm came and drove the builders off. While raging, the storm removed 14 of the stones, each weighing 2 tons, each set in cement, and pegged by iron spikes. 11 of the blocks were never seen again. The landing cranes were demolished. This was in July !
The weight of stones in the finished 77 courses is 3115 tonnes. It was all landed by lighter and winched up onto the rock.
In November 5th 1872, after completion, another gale struck. The lightning conductor was torn, it was 1 x 1.5" copper band mounted in a recessed channel so that its surface was flush with the exterior of the stone. It was bent at the 92ft high kitchen window level. This was the lee side from the storm.
Its a testament to the builders that occasional storms like this have battered the tower for the last 140 years, and still it stands, designed to withstand what so far nature has thrown at it.
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wully · Post by **wully** » Wed Oct 29, 2014 11:49 pm

Storyline wrote:Don't know but going o/t isn't there some kind of google app where you can show an image of something and it will identify it ? (not to cheat in whereizzits but just curious)

There is a much easier way that doesn't require an app....which I used as I've never been close enough to get a good look at it.

Post by **Nick** » Thu Oct 30, 2014 12:40 am

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Very interesting; I've never passed that way close enough to get a look at it.

Anyone landed on it?

Telo · Post by **Telo** » Thu Oct 30, 2014 8:35 am

An ugly reef is this of the xxx-xxxxxxxx; no pleasant assemblage of shelves, and pools, and creeks, about which a child might play for a whole summer without weariness, like the Bell Rock or the Skerryvore, but one oval nodule of black-trap, sparsely bedabbled with an inconspicuous fucus, and alive in every crevice with a dingy insect between a slater and a bug. No other life was there but that of sea-birds, and of the sea itself, that here ran like a mill-race, and growled about the outer reef for ever, and ever and again, in the calmest weather, roared and spouted on the rock itself. Times were different upon xxx-xxxxxxxxmen sat prisoned high up in their iron drum, that then resounded with the lashing of the sprays. Fear sat with them in their sea-beleaguered dwelling; and the colour changed in anxious faces when some greater billow struck the barrack, and its pillars quivered and sprang under the blow. It was then that the foreman builder, Mr. Goodwillie, whom I see before me still in his rock-habit of undecipherable rags, would get his fiddle down and strike up human minstrelsy amid the music of the storm. But it was in sunshine only that I saw xxx-xxxxxxxx; and it was in sunshine, or the yet lovelier summer afterglow, that the steamer would return to Earraid, ploughing an enchanted sea; the obedient lighters, relieved of their deck cargo, riding in her wake more quietly; and the steersman upon each, as she rose on the long swell, standing tall and dark against the shining west.

Interesting place for a session?

Storyline · Post by **Storyline** » Thu Oct 30, 2014 11:30 am

Men were men in those days - cannot imagine landing the stones from the lighter and all the other work to build it in such an exposed position.

Also have never been close as it is not really on the way to/from anywhere but have seen it and probably taken bearings off it years ago.

Is lighthouse bagging your thing Geoff - if so, how many have you landed on ?

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