Norm: In your research, how many vessels have you seen flying their "motoring cones" that are required during daylight hours? I'm not sure I have ever seen one on a pleasure boat.
Also, in a lot of anchorages, there seems to be an unwritten rule that you only turn on your anchor light if ti's LED. You could make a fortune just writing tickets for motoring cones and anchor lights. Phil > I have often wished I had a Letter of Marquis to write (and keep half for > myself) citations for bad lights. They are almost always improper steaming > light and occasionally the stern light. Sailboats often forget to turn on > the steaming light when firing up the iron jib, many small runabouts have > lights (when they remember to turn them on) occulted by biminis or people. > On several occasions I have watched all the boats in the harbor from > sundown to around 11pm and found 30 to 50 percent have illegal lights. The > least compliant are trailer-sized runabouts, the most are commercial > vessels. > > I have even seen red and green lights reversed on two occasions. > > > > Norm > S/V Bandersnatch > Lying Gloucester MA >
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