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Old 01-21-2012, 11:05 AM   #3
Marin
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RE: What Nav lights do you have?

We have and use the boat's original lighting. All the nav lights use 12vdc incandescent bulbs. The cost and effort to switch our lights over to LEDs is not worth it to us because we almost never run after dark and the only times we have so far have been being a bit late getting back to Bellingham. So at most we have run perhaps a half hour to an hour after sunset. Our stock anchor light is plenty bright, and we often use an oil lantern for an anchor light, which is actually even brighter due to its Fresnel lens. So we've not deemed it worthwhile to change what we have. If we did run a lot at night or ran in an area where there was a lot of traffic at night (there isn't here), or where there were lots of lights on shore, getting brighter and more brilliant nav lights could be a good idea.
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