Lighting

[kaptin kod]

I have my Warrior 165 fitted out with the standard Nav lights. I do a lot of night fishing which means when travelling I have someone forward with a searchlight scouring for trees, logs etc. anybody use any other form of fixed searchlight or spots for this purpose.

 

any ideas greatfully recieved.

[Afishionado]

I have my Warrior 165 fitted out with the standard Nav lights. I do a lot of night fishing which means when travelling I have someone forward with a searchlight scouring for trees, logs etc. anybody use any other form of fixed searchlight or spots for this purpose.

 

any ideas greatfully recieved.

Presnoallllly I am not in favour of trying to light ones way like a car on the road. It ruins night vision which infact can be very clear at sea with no shadows and the ease at which objects are silhouettedagainst the sea. IMO spot light or torch light is only needed to pick up ones mooring buoy.

 

I have motored/sailed many miles at night and never failed to see crab pot bouys etc. My advice would be to try it without lighting and let natures adaptable Mk1 eyball do it's job.

 

Mad Mike

[duncan]

sounds very dangerous water to be out in at night if there is that much in it.

 

i have a fixed spot on the bow of my (bigger) boat but only us it coming into the mooring area to spot the odd buoy. experience with a smaller boat and no windscreen is that you can spot things on the surface most nights with the naked eye if it's reasonably calm and you don't have anything destroying your night vision.

 

basically if I was worried about these hazards I would be travelling slowly. A spot's not going to show it all and you could easily sink a boat very quickly hitting large objects at speed.

 

where is this nightmare? used to get timber in the Thames, and the odd branch in the medway on big tides, but not that much.

[kaptin kod]

Bristol Channel at Cardiff, Penarth Area we see everything from partly submerged trees to wheels, beer barrels. plus we have a very large tidal range and the tide runs at high speeds so spotting the rubbish coming is essential.

[jack]

Hi Kaptin Kod.Simple answer to your problem. Stop mucking about in all that fast dirty water,and move to the Poole area.Our local sea area authority send men in boats out each night to clear all nasty rubbish etc.and rinse out the seawater to leave it sparkling blue.! So that we are not faced with any "unpleasantness",when we sally forth on each rain-free,sun filled morning.Beginning next year there are even plans afoot to employ "fish hooker-oners" to swim about in Poole bay ,just on the look-out for club boats,so that none of us return catchless.I myself am really looking foreward to this time.[always supposing I am not locked up by then.] cheers and good luck. .jack

[Newboy]

Might be talking out of my arse (again). I have wondered very often if Nightshot in most camcorder work in this sort of situation or not. I can 'see' the garden at night and the picture quality is good. The rnage is good too, I can even look into next door's garden which is about 100+ yards away if I wanted to.

[Bob F]

KK,

 

Within the club we have a few boats that go out night fishing. As Mike says, it's probably just as good to let your eyes get used to the dark and use your own night site. We also have hand held spot lights when needed.

 

One other tip is to cover half of the running light, so that this isn't blinding your view.

 

BF

[Swainiac]

KK, one mistake when lighting your way is to concentrate too hard in the beam cone, albeit that thats the way your travelling. Our eyes work perfectly well in moonlight, and the general time for achieving 100% night vision is about 40 minutes. As other posters have stated, scanning with the naked eye will generally show up the white foam given off by foreign objects in the water, if you are not confident with your path home, simply slow down! Being hunter gatherers, our eyes pick out differences in our surroundings, so trust em!

 

Rich