Night sailing

I got these lights from Murray's for christmas one year...

http://www.murrays.com/mm5/merchant.mvc ... re_Code=MS

You can purchase cheap carabiners from a harware store and clip them to your bridle or the tips of the hulls and one on the boom or rear crossbar.

As for legal concerns, I understand that you have to have at least one light that can be seen in all directions. This is either for boats that are not under power or under a certain legnth-I can't remember. I tried this once with a aingle light I bought from West Marine.
When a power boat aproached us I heard a voice say "Isn't that a sailboat, and shouldn't they have lights on? The sail and our bodies were blocking the one light. I did shine another light into the sail though and then turned around to go home.

I purchased these in hopes that my friends would share my enthusiasm for sailing at night. I have yet to find one. However, I do plenty of night paddling w/o lights and have a great time at it.

-good luck and Happy (night) sailing.

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"Breach hull all die"
'83 H16
'90 Hobie One 12

The only thing to add that I have are these 2 points. The West marine lights work great. I do tie a line to the bottom of the port starboard light between the light and the suction cup, then tie it to the front bridal on the boat. I lost one of these years ago when the suction cup released while underway... poof, no night...

Also, I found a battery powered stern light with a treaded connection on the base of the flashlight. I screwed in a stainless eyelet to that fitting, and then put a small aluminum carabiner to the eyelet. Now I just clip that light to the unused main block tang on the boom. EASY and keeps the bright light out of the skippers eyes.