Obscure technical question
I'm contemplating the design/build of a camp/cruise style proa schooner. Question at hand could or should there be a white all around white anchor light at top of both mast?
Posted Jun 28, 2022, 12:04 AM UTC
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I'm contemplating the design/build of a camp/cruise style proa schooner. Question at hand could or should there be a white all around white anchor light at top of both mast?
Posted Jun 28, 2022, 12:04 AM UTC
Given all the steps from now until then, yeah, it’s kind of weird this is your question. But you can put it on either, and it doesn’t necessarily even have to be at the top of the mast. Masthead lights are actually sometimes kind of hard to see.
(b) A vessel of less than 50 meters in length may exhibit an all-round white light where it can best be seen instead of the lights prescribed in Rule 30(a).
I would be more concerned with the navigation lights. They typically go toward the bow, with red to starboard and green to port. As a proa changes direction, seems like you would need 2 sets, and a switch to select between them depending on your direction.
Design is pretty well fixed, contemplation primarily about building.
Navigation lights will be standard red/green facing outward on top of each mast as well as a 135 degree white stern light. Alternately switched red/green on one mast with white stern on other mast.
Jzerro the best known proa since Cheers at one one time had a single tricolor navlight on a short mast midships and to leeward. It was rotated 180 degrees when changing tacks. Don't know if that was still the case when it made the recent New York to San Francisco around the horn run.