Anchor light extension to cut glare.

[NAGG]

Perko have a folding (1M) All round anchor light ..... It is removable I keep mine in the rod locker clipped into the underside of the hatch , when not in use The other thing is that the light is not cast downwards ... so it has minimal affect on your night vision! ...... NAGG

[Roughasguts]

Apparently, some of the skippers now use the tactile method of navigation

Thank's Sea-Dog, never heard of tactile navigation before, so looked it up.
Hmmmm how the hell does that work on a boat it says you get feed back from your sences either from your seat or both hands on the controls.

Bloody hell it sounds dangerous, it's designed for visually impared water skiers or at least they use it some how. But what use would it be for a skipper at night, if it was any use it would be in the work Lexus, (got every thing else in it) so we could drive home with the lights off.

Have you any more information on it ? sounds interesting and must be viable but can't see how it works. Seems like some force feed back in the controls like Sony Playstation. But hey thats a game not real life.

[Sea-Dog]

Thank's Sea-Dog, never heard of tactile navigation before, so looked it up.
Hmmmm how the hell does that work on a boat it says you get feed back from your sences either from your seat or both hands on the controls.

Bloody hell it sounds dangerous, it's designed for visually impared water skiers or at least they use it some how. But what use would it be for a skipper at night, if it was any use it would be in the work Lexus, (got every thing else in it) so we could drive home with the lights off.

Have you any more information on it ? sounds interesting and must be viable but can't see how it works. Seems like some force feed back in the controls like Sony Playstation. But hey thats a game not real life.

Sorry Roughas, I was trying to be funny.

Ever heard of "touch parking" extend that to night-time navigation - just drive 'till you hit something.

[Roughasguts]

Title : The Use of Tactile Navigation Displays for the Reduction of Disorientation in Maritime Environments
Corporate Author : QINTIQ LTD HANTS (UNITED KINGDOM) CENTRE FOR HUMAN SCIENCES
Personal Author(s) : Dobbins, Trevor ; Samways, Shaun

Report Date : FEB 2003
Pagination or Media Count : 6
Abstract : The maritime environment can be difficult to navigate in, due to poor visual cues, leading to disorientation and the potential for operational failure. The sense of touch is often overlooked as a mode of information display, but is ideally suited to providing intuitive navigation cues. Tactile cues provide a potential method to overcome these visual limitations and provide an alternative mode of displaying information from the more common visual and audio mediums. The QinetiQ Centre for Human Sciences have developed a Navigation Tactile Interface System (NTIS) that displays navigation cues through the highly intuitive sense of touch. This has been demonstrated in high-speed boats by the setting of the blind world water speed record with the use of the QinetiQ NTIS, and underwater by the US NAMRL Tactile Situation Awareness System which allowed divers to successfully complete a navigation exercises using only tactile cues. Therefore, tactile navigation displays have the potential to reduce disorientation in maritime environments and improve operational performance.

That is funny Sea-Dog even more so it actually exists.
Now a tactile wife surely that exists.

[Sea-Dog]

Now a tactile wife surely that exists.

Yep, If you're going the wrong way - she'll give you a physical stimulus (clip over the ear) to guide you back to the right path.

I think my wife has been using that method for years.

[Grand_Marlin]

Ahhh. the old "drive by feel" technique