What is required and what is smart are not always the same.  A masthead 
tri-color is not what I would use here in the Chesapeake as many (power)boaters 
don’t look up.  At sea, I wouldn’t use anything else.

You can’t use both at the same time, but you can have both on your boat and use 
what is appropriate for where you are.

By the way, the tri-color provides the aft facing white light.

Neil A
1982 C&C FoxFire 32
Rock Hall, MD

Neil Andersen
20691 Jamieson Rd
Rock Hall, MD 21661

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Subject: Re: Stus-List New thought re: anchor light?

Our boat came with a new Davis LED anchor light, but I haven't pulled or been 
up the mast yet, so I attached it to one side of our solar arch, just above the 
panels, and we just run a cord with an accessory plug when required. We've been 
out in the dinghy at night, and it's clearly visible all around, unless you're 
quite close on the side that is blocked by the panels. I plan to move it to the 
masthead soon, but all this talk of tri-lights has me thinking about that 
option too. A tri-light meets the requirements for both bow lights and an 
anchor light, correct? So I just need a steaming light, and a stern light? 
(which I have). I don't like the pulpit mounted bow light I have (flimsy and a 
spinnaker magnet), and the in-hull bow lights are not functional at the moment.
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S/V Callisto, 1974 C&C 35
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On Tue, Feb 4, 2020 at 7:50 AM Bruce Whitmore via CnC-List 
<cnc-list@cnc-list.com<mailto:cnc-list@cnc-list.com>> wrote:
Hello all,

I read through your thoughtful responses, and realized the plastic lens up 
there is probably crazed/cracked suggesting full replacement.

Then, it occurred to me that I don't like the idea of an anchor light 55+ feet 
up in the air.  Unless you know you're in an anchorage, it would be very easy 
to confuse the light (especially new, 600K bright LEDs) with background stars.  
I also think most people don't look for lights that high up in the sky - 
Especially folks in dinghies and power boats.  :)

That led me to ask myself - Why not just mount a new light to the top of the 
bimini or some other more visible place?  I have a stainless steel mount for an 
old exterior satellite radio antenna I no longer use, so I could easily mount 
and wire it, and in the process make it more likely that folks motoring around 
the anchorage would see my boat.

Everything I see indicates this would be COLREG requirements.

Thoughts?

Bruce Whitmore

(847) 404-5092 (mobile)
bwhitm...@sbcglobal.net<mailto:bwhitm...@sbcglobal.net>


On Monday, February 3, 2020, 11:36:51 PM EST, Len Mitchell 
<xfireca...@gmail.com<mailto:xfireca...@gmail.com>> wrote:


Bruce, our 1989 37+ had an Aqua signal tri light with strobe. Last summer I 
replaced it with another aqua signal LED tri light, without the strobe. It 
works great and it’s visible from a great distance but there are many choices. 
Yours is probably an aqua signal but no guarantees. If it’s a light on a stick, 
it is probably the same as Ken’s. I would consider new rather than retrofitting 
an LED bulb, my plastic was brittle and crazed. I would also want to maximize 
visibility and minimize power draw which may be easier and more efficient going 
with a new fixture.
Len Mitchell
Crazy Legs
Midland On.
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