Docking lights

[Aaron_Fogarty]

Interested if the reflect any light off the front of the boa?t. I guess if they are that far foward they wouldnt. I have seen a single mounted just below the bow sprit on a bracket. Im keeen to get a set if its all good.
Aaron

[drb]

The reason that you don't see this is

1. screws up your night vision
2. does not allow others to see your nav lights so is therefore not strictly legal if you are running up and down the river all night with them on, though I doubt the law could do anything about them (call them search lights)

let me know how they go tim. By the way that was me tooting my horn at you last week when you were fishing under bli bli bridge. get any?

how about the fluros under the gunnels, what sort of a result do you get lighting the boat with them. I would like to check them out, how many did you put in and which ones?

[devocean]

How do they go with power and your battery also if they do work could you give me the specs on them as I need something like this

[Zeeke]

as you guys keep saying about lights being in other boaties eyes.. they wont be used in open river areas where there is alot of boat traffic, they are 99% already lighted up by street lights, ill be using them for when i go up creeks and such at night and even then, i wont have them on all the time, just to flash on for a couple of seconds to see whats ahead..

Fluro lights ive got on my boat are the cheap $12 ones you get from Whitworths or any boat chandlery.. they are the lightning ones..ive got single globes.. i used to have them mounted on the sides of the gunnels.. but after 2 months they rusted up and died.. i got another set and this time mounted them under the gunnels.. where they are weather protected, ive had them under there for 3yrs now and they are still going strong.. they light up the floors in my boat nicely.. you can see everything your doing without squinting.. and do an excellent job.. ive got one now mounted under the side console and one under the gunnel.. and the lighting is excellent

Tim


Marine Docking Lights
http://whitworths.com.au/main_itemdetail.asp?item=49645
Available in Black or White

My current battery is a 55 amp Deep Cycle Battery... ill soon be changing it to a marine battery because i have an electric start motor now and deep cycles dont like the power surges from starting up.. the lights will only be used while the motor is running because the motor has an alternator and can power the lights up..

Daz, knew it was you when i saw that truck of yours (not hard to miss ) i did wave back... and i got a few herring on fly heh... was trying to tempt something bigger but the herring were too thick..

[Hutcho]

I recently bought a 500,000 candle powered spotlight (Bout $17 from Autobarn) that has a rechargable plug in to my charger on the boat. It works a treat and shines for miles. I've thought about "headlights" before too, but just wasn't sure how'd they go up the creeks. I normally like to have a look into the mangroves and then a quick flash forward to see where Im going. Are the ones you fitted about to rotate? Be great to have one pointing forward, and one pointing sideways.

Great idea about the fluro's under the gunnels.

Cheers,
hutcho

[aido]

they should be good for lighting up idiots with no lights.

[Zeeke]

they are fixed, but you can adjust them 120 degree's up and down.. i know the rivers here like the back of my hand, during the day, i zoom up and down them like a mad man while other boats following me hit sandbars.. but at night its a different story.. crabpots are the main worry, then gill nets by pro's who net whole creeks and only use a light when they are pulling the net in.. and then fellas in rowboats with no lights.. ill still carry a couple of good torches to light up other things.. but the "headlights" will shine up whats ahead for me briefly

Tim

[NQCairns]

It's a great idea and job Zeeke, looks mean also, but why isn't it more popular?
I have had a bracket for 2 lights that slips over the tinnys bow rail for the past 10 years and it did a great job although I always planned to add some shielding because a lot of light leaks down onto the front deck and some also glows from around the light proper, right pain in the proverbial.
I also found that the lower to the water line the light was the less back reflected light from the waves, I guess stage 2 of the design would have addressed this if it was not just so much better than a handheld allready I might have got there. I found the lower wattage bulb was better overall.
We used to chuckle about the thought of all those undersized fish and crabs being thrown back when we turned the lights on around the pin area .
I plan to put fitted ones into the bow of a fibreglass boat in the future (like the formulas have standard) but as usual it's the sourcing of components to suit that will be the hard part.
nq