Nav light requirements

[pootnic]

Re: Nav light requirements

There are alot of bow/stern lights that have removable sockets so you wouldn't have to worry it tangling in your fly line.
How much night flyfishing are you doing?
Up here(probably down there to) your lights only have to be on when visablity is reduced(dusk,night,dark,fog...)

 

[Home Cookin']

Re: Nav light requirements

I've used the plug-in bow lights on a boat with a flat front deck, which we want to keep flat. They are not in the way in the daytime, and it doesn't matter when running at night. Sitting up high, they don't reflect on the deck too much and hurt your night vision. However, since our deck is the main docking point, the yahoo's you carry with you will kick them no matter how many times you warn them. Also vulnerable to docking error. Therefore, I'd recomment low profile split lights (2 units) on the bow gunwales. I think my boating is similar to yours.

I like the look of your boat--home-made, or brand?

BTW night fly fishing is big here under the bridges when the stripers are running.

 

[Outsider]

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but if someone on the boat stands in front of it you are no longer safe.

Then he's not legal, either, lights have to be unobstructed. So what's at fault, the light or the operator? I get your point, but there's no way to regulate or prevent stupidity ...

 

[Mikeyboy]

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that is quite true outsider you can't.

 

[JoLin]

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but if someone on the boat stands in front of it you are no longer safe.

Then he's not legal, either, lights have to be unobstructed. So what's at fault, the light or the operator? I get your point, but there's no way to regulate or prevent stupidity ...

The point being that the skipper needs to take every practical precaution to insure that nav lights CAN'T be 'obstructed'. If the lights are mounted on the outside perimeter (gunwale/bow/stern) of the boat, it's nearly impossible for anything to block them. That's why every single boat manufacturer puts 'em there. They're too important to futz with.

 

[Andy'sDelight]

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Why don't you want to put them on the bow one on each side that way they can't be blocked by soeone standing in the wrong place or as Roscoe pointed out by bow rise, on the point of the bow they can never be blocked.

This this this!!!! I see alot of very small center consoles that hang around near my harbor at night. I can't tell you how many I've come up on where you can't see their nav light because someone is sitting or standing in front of it. Put them all the way up on the bow for yours and everyone else's piece of mind please.

 

[fishfreek]

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I like the look of your boat--home-made, or brand?

BTW night fly fishing is big here under the bridges when the stripers are running.

Home Cookin, the boat is built by a company from Ft. Pierce Florida called Ankona.

www.ankonaboats.com

I have figured out the light issue. I took a CAD drawing of the skiff as it will be built to the Coast Guard facility here at Port Canaveral today and had them mark it in all the places that would be legal to mount my lights. On the deck at the bow was #1 and on the sides of the tiller console was #2. Because of the severe angle of the sides of the bow that area was not recommended.