Masthead nav lights question

[IanCC]

I entered Cawsand early one morning and couldn't see any boats. The white lights at distance looked like street lights and as you got closer like stars. It was a moonless night and the boats were hidden except for a few with low level lights.
We were also shorthanded so no spare crew to wave torches around and our eyesight at the time was good !

Had exactly the same experience there.

 

[Sandy]

I entered Cawsand early one morning and couldn't see any boats. The white lights at distance looked like street lights and as you got closer like stars. It was a moonless night and the boats were hidden except for a few with low level lights.
We were also shorthanded so no spare crew to wave torches around and our eyesight at the time was good !

A very, very different than all the experiences than I have in Cawsand; I am currently Plymouth based.

 

[john_morris_uk]

I entered Cawsand early one morning and couldn't see any boats. The white lights at distance looked like street lights and as you got closer like stars. It was a moonless night and the boats were hidden except for a few with low level lights.
We were also shorthanded so no spare crew to wave torches around and our eyesight at the time was good !

Exceptions don’t prove the rule. I’ve been in Cawsand many times and not had too many problems identifying where boats are. As far as I’m concerned, the trick is NOT to use a torch but to allow your eyes to be truly insulated from the rest of us.

 

[Ardenfour]

Pretty hard nay almost impossible to tell from just that picture, but it looks a newish unit?? So I suspect it is LED. If it is a filament bold type them the bulb will be white but if it is a LED then I think the LEDs will be coloured. Others will correct me if I am wrong.
Nevertheless there are many good reasons to keep a masthead tricolour in use and use instead of pushpit/pulpit level lights instead.

Looks like he a got a bicolour fitted.

 

[Boatsie]

We love our trilight.
Illumination of windcock underway and keep of night eyes looking past bow.
We switch to stern and bow lights when in channel for ease of others to see us along horizontal view.

I'd think it easier to replace unit with Allround white if converting to an anchor light.

For night sailing though.. trilight simply effective for keeping visual night eyes wide open.