Anchor..... Lights

[sailorman]

I'm just pondering anchor lights and although I like the fore triangle I'm thinking about a masthead led anchor/tri but wiring a LED deck light to come on with the mast anchor light, to light the deck. Both would still be a lot lower consumption than a conventional bulb and I could always hoist in the fore triangle instead via a cigarette plug.

I'm just thinking about laziness after a long sail. I assume there's no issue having a deck light on as well?

Thoughts?

I have a Hella anchor lamp with an incandescent bulb , it plugs into a dedicated socket in the head & is hung in the fore triangle

 

[BlueChip]

I have a Hella anchor lamp with an incandescent bulb , it plugs into a dedicated socket in the head & is hung in the fore triangle

Why not change the bulb for an LED? It will be brighter and use far less power

 

[Yellow Ballad]

I've been thinking of doing something like GDA's setup as well and I've seen the Aqua Signal hoistable jobbie on ebay at a good price. No connection but I've ordered one earlier, stick a LED bulb in and some tinned cable and jobs a goodun.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Aqua-Sig...183323?hash=item4d64a78a5b:g:mKMAAOSw8i9acJWE

 

[TQA]

Spreader lights are good if you want to be seen.

BTW all the boats I have seen with strobes have been French. It makes a change from the multicoloured garden solars that they often use.

 

[duncan99210]

Foretriangle hanging light is the best answer for anchor lights. Try entering an anchorage at night and it’s both much more difficult to spot masthead lights and then to tie them into an unlit hull, whereas a light in the foretriangle will illuminate the hull as well.
I’m puzzled by people who don’t like stobes though. I’m not in favour of using a strobe alone to mark a boat but as an additional marker they make sense to me. Frankly, any lights on boats at anchor are great: all to often in the Med boats are unmarked. The typical strobes used by folks are small ones designed as pot/net markers often used in the Med. There’s no way they can be easily confused with anything else: they’re too weak for navigation marks, not associated with steaming lights used to mark fast craft and they’re the wrong colour as well (orange strobe for fast craft/hovercraft). We use one to help us spot our boat in a crowded anchorage.

 

[KellysEye]

Our anchor light was battery powered and tied three feet up the mizzen mast topping lift, had been a sloop it would have been up the back stay. The reason was if you are an anchorage with lights on shore then it is difficult to see a masthead light.