Night light

[dotnmarty]

We got this box of 15 solar lights from Costco. Dotty suggested putting two of them in our rod holder holders (you know what I mean) . Cheap and it works.

[Sea Wolf]

Marty-

Good idea!

You could use one of them for your anchor light in a pinch if you lost the filament in that fixture and didn't have a replacement.

I'd lower them down inside the cockpit a bit if I thought that I was in a busy and possibly dangerous anchorage so as not to confuse another boat underway. The navigation rules are pretty specific about what light patterns to show to others.

Are your lights amber, bluish, or ?

Joe.

[thataway]

Joe, although the rules are specific about navigation lights and anchor lights, there is absolutely nothing to prevent you from putting other "deck lights" or marker lights on. This is common practice in larger boats. In crowed anchorages, where there might be an influx of boats early in the night, I would leave the spreader lights on, which show the entire outline of the surface of the boat--plus we also put a small light on the bowsprit and on the aft davits--One of our boats was 62 feet long, and a 360 degree anchor light up 63 feet off the water is difficult for many smaller or even medium sized boats to see.

If you watch the commercial vessels or large mega yachts they will almost always have lights on at the deck level.

We use the Davis Mega/utility light often in the cockpit to destinguish the smaller boats at night. With the small bulb this only uses a few milliwatts. We have other friends who use the solar lights. Don't know about the current generation, but when we first used them, they often would not last the entire night.

Occasionally at Catalina, we will put a small flashing red LED on aft part of the boat, to make it easy to find at night. Again this is not a light which can be confused with a navigational light--which is the basic principle when using other lights. One of my pet peeves is the dinner ships, which string christmas or colored vinyl tube lights all over the boat, so it is hard to distinguish the navigation lights...When we are running at night, the only lights beyond the standard navigation lights are some red night lights in the cabin, if we need them. These are small LED's which are not directly in the skipper's eyes.

[hardee]

If it goes on the boat, it should serve dual or more purposes.
That is one of the priorities for us, and this little, solar powered, red or white LED is terrific. It charges all day, comes on at night automaticly, if turned on.(3position switch, Red, White, or Off), no battery drain, bright enough to read by, and on red, an excellent night light. Doesn't look like I got the picture, Sorry, do a search at West Marine for "solar lights" and it comes right up. $14.99. WE have 3 on board , and they have been flawless.

LightShip Solar Powered Light



Manufacturer MFG Part # WM Model# Price In Stock? Qty
SIMPLY BRILLIANT 5402 8699878 Only $14.99 USD YES

[thataway]

That west marine solar light sounds interesting. I also have a solar operated 8 AA ni hydride battery charger, got it from "Boat US" as a close out--don't remember the brand. We have been using rechargiable AA for a number of years for all portable lights, and radios etc. We charge these from 12 v DC. I recently got a Vector Power brite light from Sams--it was about $19 and susposed to last 14 hours--very bright, with 26 white LED-s and can run on either 13 or 26 of the LED's.

[oldgrowth]

I have two led night lights in the cabin of my boat. One above the table and one above the dash instruments/controls. Both are mounted on my top shelf.

You can see a larger picture by clicking on the thumbnail.


My deck lights are led rope lights and give a lot of light. They light up the deck area like it is daylight. They show in the photo also.
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Dave