Ditto your running lights plus tricolor for rednecks. You need to have lights near water level.....drunk rednecks on party barges don't usually look up. In fact, drunk rednecks on party barges don't look, period!
We were anchored behind Pensacola Beach in broad daylight. We had a 15 inch orange round fender on our anchor rode roughly 25-30 feet off our bow. A drunk driving a party barge straddled it. Jetskis love to zoom past it. Rather than a safety thing, it seems to be a stooopidity magnet. In addition to our LED anchor light at the masthead, I hang an LED all around from the boom. Here's the light: http://store.marinebeam.com/utanliwiduto.html Dennis C. Touche' 35-1 #83 Mandeville, LA On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 9:54 AM, Jean-Francois J Rivard via CnC-List < cnc-list@cnc-list.com> wrote: > > You get what you pay for.. > > If you choose wisely it's not just the certification, it's the overall > construction and performance. After careful consideration I bought this > one: > > > http://www.miseagroup.com/solutions/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=1_5_7&products_id=23&zenid=va2a254cabmkjgrsvlq56umv46 > > If you shop it right you can get it for a little less than 400.00 bucks. > 400 bucks for a tricolor on a boat that's used on a lake ? The way I see > it, It's actually pretty cheap insurance to protect my family and favorite > toy from the lowest common denominator drunk redneck plowing into my boat > in the middle of the night. > > And yes, the thing is nothing short of amazing in the way it's built > (beautiful machined / anodized aluminum, thick Lexan lens. Military spec > circuitry, etc) and how it performs: Brightest tri on the lake, You can > see it in the distance in broad daylight.. No kidding. Also, the Windex is > brightly lit at night, the anchor light turn off automatically, even the > mounting is exceptional. > > Also, it may be bad form on a seaway but when trying to ward-off drunk > rednecks on the lake, when we sail at night my boat is lit like a > Christmas tree with the tri and running lights blazing, no worries about > being confused for a fishing trawler. > > Francois > 1990 34+ "Take Five" > Lake Lanier, Georgia > > > > > _______________________________________________ > This List is provided by the C&C Photo Album > > Email address: > CnC-List@cnc-list.com > To change your list preferences, including unsubscribing -- go bottom of > page at: > http://cnc-list.com/mailman/listinfo/cnc-list_cnc-list.com > > >
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