DIY navigation lights upgraded with LEDs
Nov 26, 2020
3 minutes
The Down East 45ft boats, built in California in the 1970s, are beamy, heavy displacement ocean cruising boats. Yet they were fitted with navigation lights so puny I wouldn’t even consider fitting them on a dinghy!
The port and starboard lights on Britannia, my own Down East schooner, were the tiny tear-drop style (also called sharks, or bird’s eyes) mounted on the hull below the toe-rail, only 4ft above the waterline. They could easily be temporarily obscured in even a moderate sea.
The stern light was no better, mounted centrally on the transom. Add to
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