Nav lights

[halcyon]

Have I missed something on light reg changes ?

Yacht just motored up the river to Falmouth marina with only an anchor light on.
The number of boats coming up or down river with random combinations of lights is now quite large. I would say most of the offenders are yachts, may be we give the owners to big a choice of differant lights.


Brian

 

[dickh]

Yes, a lot of sailing boats seem to put all their lights on - I often see it, a tricolour, side lights, stern light and steaming light! I'm sure it's only ignorance, perhaps they never read any mags, or think they know it all?
Mind you, a friend has just bought another boat and the steaming light was a bicolour and was wired so that it was always on whether you had the masthead tricolour on or the side and stern lights on! Took us ages to rewire. Went to get a replacement white lens and it was extortionate - I seem to remember about £60!!(Aquasignal!!) A new lamp was only a few pounds more. We picked one up hoever for a fiver from a boat jumble.

 

[vyv_cox]

There's an article about this in the latest RYA Cruising Notes. Apparently "the authorities" are going to come down hard on transgressors.

 

[Peter_the_Grate]

How big was it? Isn't there a rule about boats under a certain length only being required to show an all-round white?

 

[gtmoore]

It says here in my RYA collision regs book G2 that I just happened to be browsing (I really should get a life!) :

Lights for Motor Yachts

Under 7m LOA - max speed not exceeding 7 knots obliged to carry only an all round white light visible 2 miles but should if practicable also carry sidelights

Assuming the yacht was this size and under power then it appears to be OK but not necessarilly recommended

 

[NigeCh]

IRPCS and HMG\'s version of IRPCS

Show me a warship that even bothers to display lights ... Will the MCA pursue them?

 

[halcyon]

It was dark, but it was around 35 foot.

Study and computor overlook the river, tend to sit watching the river, not the computor, around 40% of yachts carry wrong nav lights.

Brian

 

[Guest]

Re: IRPCS and HMG\'s version of IRPCS

Warships are exempt. They show lights becasue they want to, not because they must - indeed it's quite routine for entire fleets to be steaming across the oceans in darkness.

I once had to disguise the USS New Jersey as a fleet of fishing boats; from five miles away it was VERY convincing.



Humperdinck

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[Chris_Stannard]

From my window

living in a flat overlooking the entrance to Cowes I have gone from being amused and appalled to concerned acceptance at the general lack of understanding of the rules about lights. Yachts come in under power with their tricolours on, with their tricolours and anchor lights on, in fact with every possible combination except it seems the one appropriate to what they are doing. I guess that many are charter boats and this does not speak highly of the quality of the people allowed to take boats out from charter companies.

Incidentally and ap propos the thread about Dawlish, I wondered if all the yachties who were fined for being without cones were motor sailing, in which case they needed a motoring cone, or if they were just motoring in which case they did not.

Chris Stannard

 

[Peter_the_Grate]

Do you have space in your study to mount a cannon next to your computer?

P.