Col Reg Lights Puzzle

[Baddox]

Flip Cards "Each card shows a vessel’s display of night-time navigation lights (in colour) or daytime shapes, as seen from your position." Lights and Shapes - Flip Cards

The phot in the advert for the Flip Card pack, puzzled me for a while.

 

[capnsensible]

(f) A vessel engaged in mine clearance operations shall, in addition to the lights prescribed for a power-driven vessel in Rule 23 (§ 83.23) or to the lights or shape prescribed for a vessel at anchor in Rule 30 (§ 83.30), as appropriate, exhibit three all-round green lights or three balls.

 

[Deleted member 478]

Flip Cards "Each card shows a vessel’s display of night-time navigation lights (in colour) or daytime shapes, as seen from your position." Lights and Shapes - Flip Cards

The phot in the advert for the Flip Card pack, puzzled me for a while.

Yeh, that vessel has a seriously concerning list to starboard

 

[john_morris_uk]

A candidate I was examining for his Yachtmaster once upon a time complained that I’d asked him a question that wasn’t on the flip cards!

 

[boomerangben]

I’m not sure which would be more worrying - that I about to be mown down by a mine sweeper or the fact I would be sat in a mine field

 

[[70521]]

(f) A vessel engaged in mine clearance operations shall, in addition to the lights prescribed for a power-driven vessel in Rule 23 (§ 83.23) or to the lights or shape prescribed for a vessel at anchor in Rule 30 (§ 83.30), as appropriate, exhibit three all-round green lights or three balls.

If it was coming at me from that angle I would be worried.

 

[snowbird30ds]

A vessel that had too many magic mushrooms?

 

[Poignard]

Presumably a vessel engaged in mine laying operations shows no lights.

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[Sticky Fingers]

Flip Cards "Each card shows a vessel’s display of night-time navigation lights (in colour) or daytime shapes, as seen from your position." Lights and Shapes - Flip Cards

The phot in the advert for the Flip Card pack, puzzled me for a while.

It's not helping that the picture is rotated 90 degrees! Should look like this:



Then it makes more sense...!

 

[john_morris_uk]

It's not helping that the picture is rotated 90 degrees! Should look like this:

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Then it makes more sense...!

I admit got me confused at first glance.

 

[Sticky Fingers]

Yup. I've got this flashcard set, the are pretty good I think. The cards each have a barely-visible silhouette of the vessel(s) in question, so that's a help too. Not really visible on the OPs' image.

 

[Mudisox]

Spent 3 years on a ship dis[laying these lights. We didn't lean over quite that much even in a Taufun.

 

[Never Grumble]

Spent 3 years on a ship dis[laying these lights. We didn't lean over quite that much even in a Taufun.

Didn’t need the lights blowing up contacts was enough to keep other vessels away.