Find anchored yacht in dark.

[Chiara’s slave]

You guys need to run a more distinctive boat. We never have trouble finding ours. A gloss white mast helps a lot, plus the pre bend and diamonds, and the er, different shape on the water.

 

[14K478]

The wildly over the top solution:

We have a Davey cone burner paraffin lamp which began life as a ship’s NUC light. My sister rescued it from an antique shop. I took the red shade out. The difference in colour of a paraffin flame compared to electric light makes it really easy to spot. The Board of Trade requirements were that it could be seen from two miles with the red shade in; it’s certainly good for three, now.

 

[Roberto]

There's a story there.....

yep it was a few years ago, waters from Trinidad to Grenada, near Venezuela, it's an overnight passage there had been a few assaults against leisure boats, the general idea was to sail at night in the most discrete way: leaving from an anchorage rather than the marina so fewer people could know, no navigation or accomodations lights, no AIS; I did it all in complete darkness, just a few very short flashes from time to time as fishermen in less developed waters often just use that to signal their presence to others. The following morning at sunrise I saw another boat approaching Grenada from the south, they had been stealth as well all night, so stealth I had not even detected them on radar.

 

[Leslie frank]

If you use anchorpro on a phone and leave it onboard you can get an exact location on another phone using telegram to communicate. It's primarily there to tell you if you are dragging but it works in a thick fog to find the boat... been there got the t shirt etc

 

[Irish Rover]

using telegram to communicate.

How does that work? Do both phones need separate data connections? I assume you mean the Telegram messaging app? I've never used it.

 

[Leslie frank]

Yes. You need the anchorpro app on the phone aboard (my phone). Then that phone and my wife's phone have the telegram app. We take her phone ashore and can request a status update from the app on board when we like

 

[Leslie frank]

From memory this only works with anchor Pro... not the free version but it's quite cheap

 

[ghostlymoron2]

Most unseamanlike I know, but I put a couple of small flashing bicycle lights on the rails, one on the bow and one on the stern. Particularly useful when anchored among other boats. As per #3 I also use Navionics on my phone if I have to anchor out of sight of where I'm going ashore, but that's something I try to avoid especially in the dark.

You'll be confused for a hovercraft if you do that.

 

[Irish Rover]

From memory this only works with anchor Pro... not the free version but it's quite cheap

I have AnchorPro on my tablet on board. I don't have a separate data connection for it. I hot spot from my phone. So do I need 2 separate data sources when I'm ashore.

 

[vyv_cox]

Our anchor light from the fabulous Pavlou brothers at Poros Pavlou Bros - Poros Chandler - Visit Poros Pavlou Bros - Poros Chandler - Visit Poros never fails to be the brightest in any anchorage. Fully autonomous and self sufficient, we turn it on in April and off in October. I believe their original intention is to top scaffolding poles but Messrs Pavlou keep any further information to themselves.