What are you folks thinking? Commonly accepted? There is a law with two requirements: range and 360 degree visibility. The showing of an anchor light is mandatory - not optional. Although nighttime CG boardings are unusual, nighttime accidents are not. If you are not showing an *approved* anchor light, you will be found at fault. You can use any light source as long as it meets the range and all-around visibility requirements. The regular Davis light does not meet these requirements.
For sailboats, the legal masthead anchor light is often not sufficient to warn speeding powerboats. We always augmented our anchor light with another light low in the foretriangle. A neighbor of mine used a kerosene light for this purpose. LED anchor lights are the solution to battery drain overnight. Ron Rogers _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://liveaboardonline.com/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardonline.com/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
