This is actually very simple.
Under power you need the lights of a powerboat, because that is what you are 
now.
A "foredeck light" is something that illuminates the foredeck for work. A 
steaming light is what makes you legal under power. A steaming light may happen 
to light up the foredeck, mine does, but it meets specifications for color and 
visibility. A spotlight aimed down at the deck would not do so.
Joe
Coquina
Meanwhile...............actual powerboats run around with no lights at all or 
random collections of colored and white lights that have no resemblance to 
legal running lights. We play a game at night trying to figure  out what we are 
seeing and I doubt more than *maybe* half the powerboats have legal lights.

From: CnC-List [mailto:cnc-list-boun...@cnc-list.com] On Behalf Of robert via 
CnC-List
Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2016 10:48
To: cnc-list@cnc-list.com
Cc: robert
Subject: Stus-List Electrical Question

Any wonder there is confusion on this issue.....what's the difference between 
"sailing vessels less than 20m in length" and any powerboat?

Rob
On 2016-09-13 11:16 AM, Andrew Burton via CnC-List wrote:
Read also what it says about power vessels. When you have the engine on, your 
boat is a motor vessel.
Andy
C&C 40
Peregrine

On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 9:27 AM, robert via CnC-List 
<cnc-list@cnc-list.com<mailto:cnc-list@cnc-list.com>> wrote:
Appears my 'electrical question' veered off into another discussion on 
'navigation lights'........my fault when I said I was told by a fellow club 
member that my 'masthead/steaming light' was not a legal requirement for my 
boat.  I took the following quote from the West Marine site supplied my Marek:

"Sailing vessels less than 20m in length need to show sidelights and a stern 
light. These may be combined into a bicolor light and stern light, or a single 
tricolor light at the top of the mast."

My boat is "less than 20m in length".

Whether the fixture is a legal requirement or not, I am going to replace it 
with one similar because I want the 'foredeck light', but if it is indeed a 
legal requirement, I want to comply as well.

So back to the beginning, the fixture I saw at the Binnacle looks very much the 
same as the existing one......I like this as I would not have to drill new 
holes to attach but if I have to, so be it.

The new fixture only has one wire to attach whereas mine appears to have three 
(not exactly sure as I have not yet removed it from the mast although there are 
three existing the base of the mast) and I have no idea how to connect it.

There must be a logical way to connect it?

Rob



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