Onboard Nav Light Amusements

[steve28]

My new topic is:
Whats the most amusing nav light configuration you have seen.
I myself have seen:

1. 30 foot sailing boat at night (motoring) with tricolour facing backwards so that the port and stbd are the wrong way around and the white sector faced forward.

2. small motor boat motoring at night with port and stbd lights put on backwards so the lights were only being shown from astern and nothing visible from ahead.

3. sailing boat at night motoring with all nav lights flashing on and off.

4. large mfv motoring at night and at speed (no moon) with just a candle light

these are just funny observations on my behalf that i have seen operating this year.

can anyone better these !

steve






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[mickshep]

Not sure amusing is quite the word to use in the circumstances listed above, Scarey, perhaps! Cheers Mike.

<hr width=100% size=1>"Naaa mate, she's made of tin"

 

[Robin]

2 boats, both from the French Glenan Sailing School. motoring side by side, one with the ticolour on facing backwards, the other also tricolour facing forwards. Coming or going? Oh and they did not even HAVE the normal lights for motoring, I think they were Dufour 30s, inboard engines, no excuse for not having legal lights fitted.

What price a French taught Maitre De Voile?

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[wakeup]

Could it be no.3 was trying to get help???

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[zephyrsailor]

number 3 might have been me leaving haslar last weekend. cocked up wiring in diodes to make compass light come on with either tric or bow lights. resolved the issue before i left haslar creek tho.

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[extravert]

Small fishing boat seen of Whitby with an all round red. Handy for lazy skippers.

<hr width=100% size=1>One day, I hope to own a real boat.

 

[Johnjo]

Amber flashing light on the roof of a small cabin boat at anchor in the Carrick Roads.
Couple of blokes on board rod fishing !
Looked very much like a roadside hazard lamp,

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[Talbot]

When I was replacing all the bulbs in my nav lights last winter, I noticed that my steaming light on the mast was actually a stern light fitting!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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[petery]

A red light 'on a huge mast' apparently about a mile away while crossing to Fecamp this summer. Scared the **** out of our 'Blue Ensign' skipper.

Turned out to be Mars above a group of fishing boats

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[wooslehunter]

How about no lights at all, not even a torch. Middle of the solent, lost, no charts, no compass, no VHF, no flares, one angry wife, two pissed off daughters.

Young lad in a small fishing boat you may ask? No - 24 foot shiney new sports boat.

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[Miquel_Culzean]

Seen in Oosterschelde: 28' sailboat motoring, bow lights (red in port, green in stbd), white mast light, top of the mast tricolor BUT red stbd and green port??)

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