Has anyone got navisafe lights

Never seen them before Dylan but they look far better built than the battery powered jobs I have seen.

If you do ask Santa for some please let us know your opinion.

Since like me power on your boat is limited but tranquility is not, buy a Kindle - the one month battery life and 3G for free update is fab. It will even send and receive e-mail at a (long) stretch.
 
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I have never even seen them in a chandlers

I have never seen them in a chandlers

but they do look as though they are just what I need on katie L

although they are three times the price of the aussie ones and seven times the price of the plastimo clip on jobs
 
dylanwinter said:
I have never seen them in a chandlers

but they do look as though they are just what I need on katie L

although they are three times the price of the aussie ones and seven times the price of the plastimo clip on jobs
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Try Kildale. (Discounts available) ;)
I Believe he has them on his little boat.

Trev
 
dylanwinter said:
and seven times the price of the plastimo clip on jobs
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If you are talking about the clip-on cylindrical internal dry-cell battery powered nav lights seen on many chandlers lists, save your money, don't bother: they're complete waste of time and money in my experience (used once, on a friend's boat, when mast-head tri-colour bulb blew on passage, and immediately thrown away as a waste of space). Light output negligible, battery life too short.

Can't comment on the more modern competition.

Note that as Katie L is (I assume) under 7m your IRPCS requirements for lights are much more flexible than for larger vessels. A good all-round white would meet the regs. and be much safer than 'toy' sidelights, I reckon.
 
Slightly more use than a CD player to a seagull.
Don't get it really.
Looks like an expensive solution to a problem I did not know I had - but that might be my problem.
 
Marine superstore do these, although not online. I was thinking of one as an emergency set.

What about a NASA one? I have an aqua signal S32 which is fab, but came with the boat.
 
more than the minimum

LittleSister said:
If you are talking about the clip-on cylindrical internal dry-cell battery powered nav lights seen on many chandlers lists, save your money, don't bother: they're complete waste of time and money in my experience (used once, on a friend's boat, when mast-head tri-colour bulb blew on passage, and immediately thrown away as a waste of space). Light output negligible, battery life too short.

Can't comment on the more modern competition.

Note that as Katie L is (I assume) under 7m your IRPCS requirements for lights are much more flexible than for larger vessels. A good all-round white would meet the regs. and be much safer than 'toy' sidelights, I reckon.
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The humber is a pretty busy river at times
although I can stay well out of the channel I still want the local shipping to be able to see me properly no matter if I am short enough to get by with a single white
 
dylanwinter said:
The humber is a pretty busy river at times
although I can stay well out of the channel I still want the local shipping to be able to see me properly no matter if I am short enough to get by with a single white
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The point I was trying to make is they will see you much better with a good all-round white than with sub-standard side lights.
 
I, too, am interested in a set of clip-on lights to use in an emergency if my main lights fail. The lights to be of any use would need to have a similar range to my fixed Aqua signal lights. So far, I haven't found any battery driven ones which claim to have a decent range and last for, say, at least eight hours.
 
these ones

Miker said:
I, too, am interested in a set of clip-on lights to use in an emergency if my main lights fail. The lights to be of any use would need to have a similar range to my fixed Aqua signal lights. So far, I haven't found any battery driven ones which claim to have a decent range and last for, say, at least eight hours.
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batts on these last 20 hours

and I believe they are fairly bright

D
 
Miker said:
I, too, am interested in a set of clip-on lights to use in an emergency if my main lights fail. The lights to be of any use would need to have a similar range to my fixed Aqua signal lights. So far, I haven't found any battery driven ones which claim to have a decent range and last for, say, at least eight hours.
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They say that they have a visible range of 2NM and a burn time of 24 hours with all lights on, 38 hours with red and green only on and 60 hours with white only on.

I am not absolutely sure I like the mounting arrangement but otherwise they look like a reasonable buy for anyone determined not to fit a set of lights wired to the ships battery.

Only snag I can see is that there is not a white with a 225° degree arc of visibility to use as a steaming light but the red/green/white and one of the all-round white ones would do the trick except for the difficulty of fitting the all-round one where it can be seen all round
 
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fewer holes

VicS said:
They say that they have a visible range of 2NM and a burn time of 24 hours with all lights on, 38 hours with red and green only on and 60 hours with white only on.

I am not absolutely sure I like the mounting arrangement but otherwise they look like a reasonable buy for anyone determined not to fit a set of lights wired to the ships battery.

Only snag I can see is that there is not a white with a 225° degree arc of visibility to use as a steaming light but the red/green/white and one of the all-round white ones would do the trick except for the difficulty of fitting the all-round one where it can be seen all round
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I want as few holes in the boat as possible

and I do not want wires up the mast

I assume that I could have one on the bow for red and green

one on the stern with some tape across the back and one on the top of the mast on the penant halyard

but that is a lot of money com pared to the aussie ones

D
 
Miker said:
I, too, am interested in a set of clip-on lights to use in an emergency if my main lights fail. The lights to be of any use would need to have a similar range to my fixed Aqua signal lights. So far, I haven't found any battery driven ones which claim to have a decent range and last for, say, at least eight hours.
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I've just ordered a couple of LED bulbs which, when they arrive, will be going into spare Aqua Signal housings salvaged from KS's previous owner's mast-down lighting rig for use on canals. The spare lights will have cables that can be connected to any available source of power, for example a mechanic's jumpstart pack which seems like a handy thing for a well-found yacht to have stashed away. (No room on KS, but boat.next...)

Pete
 
dylanwinter said:
I want as few holes in the boat as possible

and I do not want wires up the mast

I assume that I could have one on the bow for red and green

one on the stern with some tape across the back and one on the top of the mast on the penant halyard

but that is a lot of money com pared to the aussie ones

D
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One with just the red and green switched on will make a bicolour for the bow
or with all the sectors light would make a tricolour if you can fit it somewhere suitable ..

A another with just the white sector lit would make a stern light.

The difficulty is a steaming light. One of the all white ones would make a combined steaming and stern light but the difficulty is again finding a suitable mounting position.

I like them far better than the aussie ones
 
Theres some merit in going for just an all round white one if it can be suitably mounted ... I notice they have 5 mile visibility.

One of the avantages of lights up the mast is that they dont shine in your eyes or reflect of light or shiny bits. Also no glare when its a bit misty.

Not entirely unknown for us to use just the all round white on top of the mast when motoring in murky conditions despite being well over 7m.
 
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