worked as a relief lighthouse keeper while i was in the U S Coast Guard in the 1960s it was fantastic duty i also served on two lightships and yes tender day was was the most anticipated day of all.
Awesome work. Shame there are not more US lighthouses. Yes, tender day is my favorite day of the month! I tend to gain 8 to 10 pounds the days following.
Wow! A great box with car sets! Nice dude! I think you are the first man in the world who gets models transported by helicopter !!! Awesome ! I want like that too !
Wait until you see next month! I made some pretty good buys and they are on the way to the base now so I will get them middle of May! That will be exciting.
Certain stations do differ in what they are listening for but generally your radio is scanning channel 16 - the emergency channel, channel 82a - the coast guard channel, channel 83a - another coast guard channel, and sometimes a specific channel for our Lightstation radio telephone which is not a channel on a standard radio but is programmable. At boat bluff I also listen to channel 11 which is traffic so I know what boats and when are coming through Sarah Passage by the station and sometimes channel 6 which is a Klemtu channel, the closest town to us. This last channel is pretty much just local chatter. What is going on in town, happy birthdays, looking for the Dog kind of stuff but it can be interesting to hear what is going on. The radio is set to automatically scan the stations you program into it and when anyone uses any of these channels, the radio will pick it up and play whatever is being said. You are always way ahead of me. Lol, I do have plans for a radio episode where I take a much closer look at our radios and what we need to know.
So if you live full time at a station is there any rules against having livestock? I was was at a lighthouse with guided tours in the US and they showed me where the light keepers would keep chickens and hogs and a garden. The tender came only once every several months, I’m talking between 1890s and world war 2 era, basically all your canned and preserved goods, tobacco, hardware, clothes etc you could order from a catalog. The ship would bring you your goods and you’d turn in your catalog for the next delivery and your pay docked. But because they didn’t use helos but a tender ship you couldn’t really move fresh food this way, so the light keepers or their wives would have gardens, chickens, hogs etc if the station had room It doesn’t look like you could have a hog pen there, but I feel four to eight hens could be kept there comfortably
Curious: why are your groceries brought in by air instead of water? I would think the shipment of that much weight would be more economical by boat? I had the opportunity back in October of 2006 to spend a week working at the school in Resolute Bay (foregive me for not remembering the First Nation spelling), where other than once a year “sealift” of truly heavy/large items, everything came by air...but it was also ice-locked in October and EXTREMELY remote...
Yes, Resolute Bay is a lot colder and a lot more north then were I am currently stationed. There was a time when everything for light stations was done by ship but doing things that way takes a lot more time and a lot more coordination. A single helicopter can deliver groceries to 5 stations in a single day and in a single load. A chopper can hold up to 2500 pounds in a run which is a whole lot of groceries and this would actually end up being a lot more economical because it takes up less time and less manpower as it is usually all handled by a single pilot who does all the loading, flying and returns himself. This is only a guess of course as I don't have any access to any type of real data but for me this line of thought makes some sense. Most of the big stuff is still done by ship, any large equipment, and supplies are done this way and scheduled at different times throughout the year but most of the time it is scheduled in such a way that when a boat is passing by on some other task, dropping something off or picking something up is done on the way to that other task.
Spencer I love your channel my question is what is the rule about tobacco or alcohol? And do you order your groceries or do they send it to you when you get what you get ? Thanks
There are no set rules about tobacco or alcohol as when you are hired, it is assumed you are responsible enough to use these in moderation and so it won't inhibit your job. Groceries are sent once a month and you buy them yourself through a site like saveonfoods.com.
worked as a relief lighthouse keeper while i was in the U S Coast Guard in the 1960s it was fantastic duty i also served on two lightships and yes tender day was was the most anticipated day of all.
Awesome work. Shame there are not more US lighthouses. Yes, tender day is my favorite day of the month! I tend to gain 8 to 10 pounds the days following.
Dude this is so cool. Modern day wickies this is some crazy stuff. Keep the videos coming man!
Thank you! Not to worry, lots more to come!
Wow! A great box with car sets! Nice dude! I think you are the first man in the world who gets models transported by helicopter !!! Awesome ! I want like that too !
Wait until you see next month! I made some pretty good buys and they are on the way to the base now so I will get them middle of May! That will be exciting.
BC Lighthouse Keeper Ok dude! I am waiting ! hehe
HI Spence, great video again. I see you walking around with your radio. What are you listening for?
Certain stations do differ in what they are listening for but generally your radio is scanning channel 16 - the emergency channel, channel 82a - the coast guard channel, channel 83a - another coast guard channel, and sometimes a specific channel for our Lightstation radio telephone which is not a channel on a standard radio but is programmable.
At boat bluff I also listen to channel 11 which is traffic so I know what boats and when are coming through Sarah Passage by the station and sometimes channel 6 which is a Klemtu channel, the closest town to us. This last channel is pretty much just local chatter. What is going on in town, happy birthdays, looking for the Dog kind of stuff but it can be interesting to hear what is going on.
The radio is set to automatically scan the stations you program into it and when anyone uses any of these channels, the radio will pick it up and play whatever is being said.
You are always way ahead of me. Lol, I do have plans for a radio episode where I take a much closer look at our radios and what we need to know.
So if you live full time at a station is there any rules against having livestock?
I was was at a lighthouse with guided tours in the US and they showed me where the light keepers would keep chickens and hogs and a garden.
The tender came only once every several months, I’m talking between 1890s and world war 2 era, basically all your canned and preserved goods, tobacco, hardware, clothes etc you could order from a catalog. The ship would bring you your goods and you’d turn in your catalog for the next delivery and your pay docked.
But because they didn’t use helos but a tender ship you couldn’t really move fresh food this way, so the light keepers or their wives would have gardens, chickens, hogs etc if the station had room
It doesn’t look like you could have a hog pen there, but I feel four to eight hens could be kept there comfortably
Curious: why are your groceries brought in by air instead of water? I would think the shipment of that much weight would be more economical by boat? I had the opportunity back in October of 2006 to spend a week working at the school in Resolute Bay (foregive me for not remembering the First Nation spelling), where other than once a year “sealift” of truly heavy/large items, everything came by air...but it was also ice-locked in October and EXTREMELY remote...
Yes, Resolute Bay is a lot colder and a lot more north then were I am currently stationed. There was a time when everything for light stations was done by ship but doing things that way takes a lot more time and a lot more coordination. A single helicopter can deliver groceries to 5 stations in a single day and in a single load. A chopper can hold up to 2500 pounds in a run which is a whole lot of groceries and this would actually end up being a lot more economical because it takes up less time and less manpower as it is usually all handled by a single pilot who does all the loading, flying and returns himself. This is only a guess of course as I don't have any access to any type of real data but for me this line of thought makes some sense.
Most of the big stuff is still done by ship, any large equipment, and supplies are done this way and scheduled at different times throughout the year but most of the time it is scheduled in such a way that when a boat is passing by on some other task, dropping something off or picking something up is done on the way to that other task.
Spencer I love your channel my question is what is the rule about tobacco or alcohol? And do you order your groceries or do they send it to you when you get what you get ? Thanks
There are no set rules about tobacco or alcohol as when you are hired, it is assumed you are responsible enough to use these in moderation and so it won't inhibit your job. Groceries are sent once a month and you buy them yourself through a site like saveonfoods.com.