prv
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It isn't really. A mast and a rolled jib each several feet away from the lamp are not enough to block it. The boat moves, the lamp moves, the observer probably moves. It's like a fat man trying to hide behind a lamp-post.
Pete
Flashing lights and strobes
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It isn't really. A mast and a rolled jib each several feet away from the lamp are not enough to block it. The boat moves, the lamp moves, the observer probably moves. It's like a fat man trying to hide behind a lamp-post.
Pete
bbg
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Are boats regularly hit while at anchor, due to the anchor light not being seen? I've not heard of that as a significant problem. I'm not sure it would be solved by having an anchorage full of flashing lights. Numerous flashing lights will make it harder to distinguish individual lights and to determine distance.
How to find your boat - lots of ways to distinguish it. Leave a cabin light on. Put some reflective tape on both sides of the boom and shine a torch around. Put reflective tape in other distinguishing places. Leave an LED Light hanging in the cockpit.
prv
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Or, lurking somewhere near the bottom of my job list, add a £10 eBay remote control module to your deck light circuit so that you can light up the boat from half a km away
Pete
rogerthebodger
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Or, lurking somewhere near the bottom of my job list, add a £10 eBay remote control module to your deck light circuit so that you can light up the boat from half a km away
Pete
That's what I have done except it switches on a light in my cockpit.
I also have a white LED strobe at the top of my mast in additional to my fixed LED anchor to be used only is a vessel gets too close on passage. I can also switch on my deck lights, spreader lights and any other lights to attract attention. That's when AIS and DSC radio calls don't work.
CARiD
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There are lot's of LEDs with strobe function on the market. I didn't use them on my boat, but I am looking to purchase some, because they obviously attract more attention in emergency situations.
Ian_Edwards
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White masthead strobe lights are readily available. Aqua Signal series 40 masthead lights (part number 3547952000) has one built in.
My current boat had one fitted when I bought it, it was connected to the burglar alarm.
I've since replaced it with an LED series 34 masthead light.
I've seen them flashing away in several anchorages on the West Coast of Scotland and on visitors moorings in the Bay at Tobermory.
My view is that having one available so that the RNLI or search and rescue helicopter can find you on a dark night in a gale of wind, isn't a bad idea. But I wouldn't use one on a routine basis. There a finite risk that it'll be confused with a light on a navigation mark.
My current boat had one fitted when I bought it, it was connected to the burglar alarm.
I've since replaced it with an LED series 34 masthead light.
I've seen them flashing away in several anchorages on the West Coast of Scotland and on visitors moorings in the Bay at Tobermory.
My view is that having one available so that the RNLI or search and rescue helicopter can find you on a dark night in a gale of wind, isn't a bad idea. But I wouldn't use one on a routine basis. There a finite risk that it'll be confused with a light on a navigation mark.
JumbleDuck
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Hey!
Hadenough
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Or, lurking somewhere near the bottom of my job list, add a £10 eBay remote control module to your deck light circuit so that you can light up the boat from half a km away
Pete
Did that. Great for coming back to the boat either at anchor or on a pontoon in the dark.