Relevant to using red lights at night...
Although I once read a long technical essay on why red light is preferable at
night, during my time in the Merchant Marine most of the night lighting was a
very dim white, almost always with a dimmer on it. As time went on there was
more of a move away from red lighting and toward dim white lighting.. I heard
that the Navy has done the same.
Many things are easier to read in white lights rather than red.
I also have been confused on occasion by colored lights on a boat that were not
navigation lights. White lights generally mean "do not run me down" whereas
colored light show what direction the boat is headed so a case might be made
that extraneous white lights would be safer.
Norm
S/V Bandersnatch
Lying Julington Creek
30 07.695N 081 38.484W
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