LED's on you Toon!

[TSHobbies]

[quote="tadams"][quote="TSHobbies"]sounds like the floating light barge we seen on July 4th lol did you get to enjoy the stampede of idiots that night after the show?[/quote]


Wasn't us. We were in Panama City beach for the 4th. What part of the lake are you on? We usually put in around the dam & go to Flamingo cove or Illinois creek or a cove close to Bethany bridge. We will have to tie up some this summer[/quote]

Yeah we put in the same ramp.. right where DNR is.

[BobL]

On our lake, we have a lot of camps/piers which enhances the light pollution. A lot of the piers have LED rope lights so when you throw in the floating light shows (exterior LED lights on moving boats), it adds a level of unnecessary stress. And as a related aside.....people that run their docking lights at night should be banned from ever owing a boat....well maybe only a temporary ban. <SMILEY FACE since the emoticons are not working>

[Reiner]

This topic was discussed numerous times here and it always ends the same way...Some people get it some don't when it comes to navigation lights. It all maters when an accident happens (hopefully not) and the law is applied. Here is the link to the USCG Marine Safety Alert:
https://www.uscg.mil/hq/cg5/cg545/alerts/1015.pdf

And here is an additional link:
http://www.professionalmariner.com/Febr ... on-lights/

And I don't think the rule is any different from being on a landlocked lake or not.

[mpilot]

[quote="Reiner"]This topic was discussed numerous times here and it always ends the same way...Some people get it some don't when it comes to navigation lights. It all maters when an accident happens (hopefully not) and the law is applied. Here is the link to the USCG Marine Safety Alert:
https://www.uscg.mil/hq/cg5/cg545/alerts/1015.pdf

And I don't think the rule is any different from being on a landlocked lake or not.[/quote]

It absolutely is different on landlocked vs navigable water ways in most states. It's the same reason you are not required to carry flares or any of that here on landlocked lakes where the state law is applied. In South Carolina it is written that no lights that interfere with the visibility of required navigation lights is allowed. As long as the red/green/white are visible from the proper angles and distance you are okay. You also cannot have flashing blue, green, or amber lights as they are reserved colors for emergency use.

My grandfather was the first boat on scene when a young boy was killed on our lake back in the 90's. As an engineer he looked into solutions because white all around lights here really blend into the shoreline since the lake is very developed and most people have lights on their docks. He found a flashing white strobe light with 5+ mile visibility that was for low draw applications and started building out brackets for them, primarily geared towards pontoon boats. He went round and round with the local/state authorities and after reviewing all of the laws on the books it was determined they would indeed be illegal if the lake had access to the ocean through other rivers/locks (aka navigable waterway), but because we were landlocked a flashing white light is not an established distress signal. Therefore it is legal as long as it is mounted below the white all around light and doesn't block/interfere with the white light. We've put these on countless boats since then and improved the bracket design substantially. I put half a dozen on in the last year or so. Our is being repaired by the manufacturer but will go back on before summer.

The quote from a DNR officer to me was he views it as the more lights the better as long as they comply with the rules. On our end of the lake when it's not cloudy you have very little night vision anyway because of the light pollution from the surrounding cities that cast a glow over this whole area of the lake.

The people they should go after are ones with white lights not rated for the proper distances, running nav lights while anchored, white lights not mounted 1 meter above navigation lights, white lights that are blocked by flags/bimini tops/people standing/etc, and other light violations. They are more of a danger than the guy running his blue lights down the side of the pontoon.

[BLUE by you]

Here's the South Bay 925 all factory LED's

[moregooder]

All them lights draw to many bugs.