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aeckhart
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Response Posted - 03/08/2011 : 08:15:30

Regarding the Davis Windex with light. Save your money. I've used a flashlight with red lense for years. It shows the Windex wind direction more than adequately and compliments "feeling" the wind on your skin.

Sometimes I thinkthat we overstress the need for gadgets on boats and end up lining the pockets of the various manufacturers and venders when there is often a less expensive, more reliable alternative available. My .02$ on the subject.

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PZell
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Response Posted - 03/09/2011 : 12:40:12

Yep. Reread the colregs. The all around light (our anchor lights) and red/green running light with no stern light is ok for power. I must have been confused about it also being ok for sailing. I remember now that I had trouble with the steaming light going out, so used the above configuration for a while.

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TakeFive
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Response Posted - 03/09/2011 : 13:06:46

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by PZell
 Yep. Reread the colregs. The all around light (our anchor lights) and red/green running light with no stern light is ok for power. I must have been confused about it also being ok for sailing. I remember now that I had trouble with the steaming light going out, so used the above configuration for a while.
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I started my ASA 105 navigation class last night. During the break the instructor showed us some neat slide-rule type things where you could select a couple of dozen different lighting combinations and it would tell you, with great specificity, what the colregs say about the type of vessel and its activity. (For instance, the device showed that if you saw a red and green light, but no white light, you have a small vessel approaching you under sail.) Because of this discussion here I checked to see if there was a combination of two white lights (upper+lower) when viewed from the stern, and there was. IIRC, it referred to a pilot boat engaged in some type of activity - though I can't remember exactly what it was.

Edited by - TakeFive on 03/09/2011 13:07:17