steaming light replacement Fastoon bulb

[Billy]

Caboose,
How do you use both the anchor and steaming like together? The Anchor needs to be visable from 360 while the steaming should only be 225 degrees.

[Craig Weis]

Yes my first thought as well. It's not legal to show a 360 deg all a round white anchor light while the boat is under power, either by sail or motor or both.

The mast mounted lamp mid-way up and 225 deg showing is the steaming light and is to be used only when the vessel is moving. Steaming.

But we all know that.

One night I was hailed by some Coast Guard squids in a rib inflatable. The voice in the dark said my ensign on the stern was flapping across the stern light and I was advised to roll up the flag on it's stick and tie it off. So at night that's what I do.

skip.

[Bob Condon]

I believe the thought at anchor is that the steaming light will show forward/side 225 and if you turn on the stern white
light only, then that is the 360.

On my cp19, I have a cigarette lighter socket and for about $20, I have a white light that I hang from the boom.
I like it because sailors going through the harbor see the light in their normal vision while anchor lights on the mast head
are out of eye sight (because they need to look UP to see it).

The light packs away very nicely and there is no extra wiring to get broken while raising the mast.

Bob

[Caboose]

The combined arc of light of a masthead light (steaming light) and the stern light is 360. The masthead light shall also be one meter or three feet above the side lights (red/green). When I'm sailing, I use my side lights and my stern light. When steaming, I turn off my stern light and turn on my anchor light. It's the same as a power boat with an all around white light sticking above his stern. A powered vessel shall display a masthead light and a stern light. These lights can be combided into a single 360 light, and that's what I did.