Re: Lights while sailing at night
Mea Culpa regarding my stern light. It's small, short and at deck level and almost anything obscures it, especially the ensign. It's not easy to know what to do about this. I tried one of those Temporary lamps on the pushpit to see how effective it was. It still ran a high risk of being obscured by the ensign and eventually slipped round so that it was pointing towards the water: all this in the time it takes to complete a cross channel crossing which was started in daylight.
Mind you, spotting the nav lights on commercial craft at sea is often made difficult by deck lighting that is several orders of magnitude brighter. Stern lights? Forget them.
Grow old disgracefully, it's more fun
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