GoLight Stanchion Mount

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CDory23

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Hi all,

I've been looking into a way to aid night navigation when needed and also find crab buoys at dark. I've gone through the threads and it seems the Golight would best fit my application. It seems many have opted to mount on the front of the bowrail for the reason of bow rail reflection.

I'm thinking for ease of install and having the control of 360 coverage around the boat a stanchion mount on the top may be the way to go. It utilizes the current perko mount already on most of our boats. When I'm using it for foward navigation my thoughts are that it would be positioned high enough I can aim the beam over the bow rail for minimal reflection.

The problem I see with this set up is the coast guard required navigation/anchor light is lost as these setups are only available with the red/green port/starboard lights.

Has anybody tried this setup and or have any input?

Here is an example of a product I"m looking at:

http://www.larsonelectronics.com/p-1063 ... t-wht.aspx
 
Crabbing in Washington is restricted to one hour before sunrise and one hour after sunset, so I never have to pull a pot after dark. Right. If I did, I wouldn't be using my Golight. I have a band of reflective tape on my pot flags (made of 1/2" PVC pipe). That shows up like crazy with just a backpacking LED headlamp. A pot 2 to 300 yards off is easy to locate. If it's dark enough to need a light, it's dark enough for reflective tape to shine.

Flashing a Golight around in the dark would attract unnecessary attention, IMHO.

Mark
 
Looks like a good idea but I would hesitate putting something that weighs 5 pounds on the Perko mount for my anchor/nav light. When I replaced the OEM one supplied with the boat, which was about 24" and had a stainless steel light fixture at the top, with a LED light and a 36" post (all aluminum) that weighed half of the original, I was surprised at the weight difference. The current on weighs maybe 1 pound. It still moves around up top. I can't imagine how much moving (read wear on the base mount), even on a short post 6 or 12 inches a 5 pound weight at the top would cause.

AND you would loose your white all around light or anchor light unless you remove the spot light whenever you are not using it.

Just my thoughts.

Harvey
SleepyC :moon

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Wow, 5 million candlepower. I've used 1 million CP handhelds and it reached out as far as I could see, which is not far, perhaps only 100 yards. I've watched tow boats on the inland rivers pushing a string of barges reach out at night a half mile to see something. This would be that kind of light. It would also blind any other boaters in a half mile, so you might not be too popular. Being higher that you, it would reach farther that you can see.
Chuck
 
so when I had the 22 I mounted a go light on the bow rail buy having a stainless steel plate cut to fit and welded on the rail. I was able to run the wired thru the rail and down in to the cabin for a clean look. I dont think you want your light any more to the stern they that. It just glares off of the hull, rails and the anchor. having it on top of the cabin just does not work very well. If you do not want to have aplate welded you could just make a plate out of star board that over lapse the rail and use u bolts to secure it.
 
They are building my 25 right now and I've ordered the "remote spotlight (go light)". I'm now wondering were they are going to mount it and if I should cancel it?
 
I's find out right now where they are going to put it. It's your boat, you should have 99.9% of the say in where it goes, unless someone else is paying for a lot more than just the light.

You could have a horizontal plate made to install just below the light that would shade the boat and kill that back splatter from the beam. I have seen this quite often on larger boats, but not on a C-Dory.

Harvey
SleepyC :moon

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hardee":1zzcujnv said:
I's find out right now where they are going to put it. It's your boat, you should have 99.9% of the say in where it goes, unless someone else is paying for a lot more than just the light.

You could have a horizontal plate made to install just below the light that would shade the boat and kill that back splatter from the beam. I have seen this quite often on larger boats, but not on a C-Dory.

Harvey
SleepyC :moon

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I wonder if mounting the go light back enough if the overhang of the 25's roof would work as a "horizontal plate".
 
ken35216":64d2admk said:
hardee":64d2admk said:
I's find out right now where they are going to put it. It's your boat, you should have 99.9% of the say in where it goes, unless someone else is paying for a lot more than just the light.

You could have a horizontal plate made to install just below the light that would shade the boat and kill that back splatter from the beam. I have seen this quite often on larger boats, but not on a C-Dory.

Harvey
SleepyC :moon

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I wonder if mounting the go light back enough if the overhang of the 25's roof would work as a "horizontal plate".
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It might. At that level though, if it is back far enough to shade the bow rail, you are not going to light up anything very close to the boat, and that could be somewhere between 100 feet and 100 yards.

In my travels up around the north end of Vancouver Island, (and at the Seattle boat show last year) I have seen many boats with some good LED lights, mounted just below the deck to bow junction, some right at the bow point, others back and to the side a bit, giving the anchor some room. Often times there are 2 lights, and set at 2 different angles. One for seeing when the boat is up and on plane, the other for when it is moving slower. The combined settings give double the vertical light cone. This is an advantage , when in rough seas as the boat bow is going up and down, the path forward is still lit up. (This was explained to me by one of the water taxis in Port Hardy, where they don't always have the choice of when they "want" to go.)

Harvey
SleepyC :moon

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CDory23: You're definitely right about the reflection of the GOlight when mounted on the roof. Mine was roof mounted and has a bad reflection on the bow. Other than that, I love the light. The 360 degree motion is amazing and the brightness is impressive. I thought about changing the location of it but there's so many other things I wanna do to the boat before that. Here's a good pic of my GOlight.

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Hey Jason where would you mount it if you moved it?

I'm thinking about getting the factory to mount it up front next to the windless on the starboard side.

Thoughts?
 
ken35216":3tjtp580 said:
Hey Jason where would you mount it if you moved it?

I'm thinking about getting the factory to mount it up front next to the windless on the starboard side.

Thoughts?
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Thats the catch 22! The roof location is great because its up high and has a good view down and 360 degrees around BUT you get that annoying reflection on the bow rail.
Mounting it next to the windlass could be good but then you don't have the full 360 degree view.

I thought of mounting it on the bow rail on a heavy duty custom fabricated platform. You'd get the best of both worlds. I just never got around to doing it. Ill probably keep it where it is and just deal with the forward reflection.
 
ken35216":36fdmh26 said:
Hey Jason where would you mount it if you moved it?

I'm thinking about getting the factory to mount it up front next to the windless on the starboard side.

Thoughts?
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Thats the catch 22! The roof location is great because its up high and has a good view down and 360 degrees around BUT you get that annoying reflection on the bow rail.
Mounting it next to the windlass could be good but then you don't have the full 360 degree view.

I thought of mounting it on the bow rail on a heavy duty custom fabricated platform. You'd get the best of both worlds. I just never got around to doing it. Ill probably keep it where it is and just deal with the forward reflection.
 
South of Heaven":1rzkgu5a said:
ken35216":1rzkgu5a said:
Hey Jason where would you mount it if you moved it?

I'm thinking about getting the factory to mount it up front next to the windless on the starboard side.

Thoughts?
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Thats the catch 22! The roof location is great because its up high and has a good view down and 360 degrees around BUT you get that annoying reflection on the bow rail.
Mounting it next to the windlass could be good but then you don't have the full 360 degree view.

I thought of mounting it on the bow rail on a heavy duty custom fabricated platform. You'd get the best of both worlds. I just never got around to doing it. Ill probably keep it where it is and just deal with the forward reflection.
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No perfect answer... everything is a damned compromise! lol
 
Mine just slips onto the bow rail and is removed when not in use. eight years old and still looks brand new not sitting in the sun.

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Jody, That looks like a pretty cool system. Nice in that it is not up there all the time, but available if/when needed.

Also just noticed, that light has an LED replacement module, spendy but one half the electrical draw, (35 watts vs 65), with close to the same light output.

Harvey
SleepyC :moon

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Jason I haven't had any issues with the light I some times use the suction mount to the back windows when cleaning fish so I like the fact that it is portable.

Harvey The LEDs are pretty steep the new lights with the LEDs are almost a boat payment. A replacement bulb is $15. Maybe if the light quits working I'll think about the LED one.
 
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