Spotlight for running through marsh to duck blind in the morning?

Why would you use a light and kill your night vision?

Had an azzhole on the ship channel sat morning with a 4' like that on his top drive boat. Guess his gps wasn't enough to tell him he was headed south.

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Guess his gps wasn't enough to tell him he was headed south.

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Running at night without a light is dumb and dangerous. Floatsam, logs, etc. in small boats can spell incredible danger. Not to mention places like a marsh can change rapidly seasonally and with the tide, channels move.

Given that you certainly don’t need a 1 mil candlepower, but I’ve tried to find smaller 12 volt plug in Qbeams before without much luck.

As said above for just a 30 minute or less trip one way I’d think one of the newer rechargeable battery operated lights would be perfect.

I've been running at night with a 25 dollar nilight bar from Amazon. No need to spend that kind of cheddar.

Check out rak navigational lighting in farmaville. He custom builds led floods with navigation lights. Good guy to deal with he has a fb page.

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Hardly, blinding yourself and others navigating in the dark is dangerous. I guess you run around in the dark pimping a light bar?

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Yes, I plan to run around in the dark pimping a light bar.

For those that have never marsh hunted: everyone basically leaves from basically the same area and spreads out to their respective areas. I can think of only one time in 20 years someone has been coming back to the boathouse before daylight, thus risking getting blinded.

I don't really need a light bar, because I don't run with it like a headlight, I just hit it for a couple seconds in intersections or cuts in the marsh to make sure I'm making the right turns and also to alert anyone who may be crossing, that I'm there.

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Check out rak navigational lighting

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pretty nice...might have to check them out...
just plug into where the front running lights plug into...

There’s an idiot I saw last summer leaving the landing with them on his transom. It’s illegal to have anything other than nav lights on when underway, turning them on to check marks works fine but does kill your night vision.

Those are illegal to use while underway on any navigable water way that falls under coast guard jurisdiction. As stated above anything that interferes with someone seeing your nav lights is illegal.

Also slow down. there was a bad accident last year because some kids were going too fast in the fog. If they had a light bar it didnt help
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