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Pier Pressure
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4/21/2009 3:19:39 PM
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This person doesn't even know what an "anchor" light is... Give me a break!
URL: Buy some strobe lights...
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mbk
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4/21/2009 6:46:55 PM
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The strobe light should be in addition to the anchor light. The anchor light provides 360 degree visibility but the strobe does not. My problem is why should the legislature require us to have a safety feature that is simply common sense - but then again so are PFDs.
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river-rat
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4/21/2009 9:14:17 PM
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I guess I don’t get it. Gentlemen, this is Alabama! They will do as they please - with total disregard to the constitution or common sense. I thought we learned this already.
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Samdog
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4/21/2009 10:16:53 PM
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I think it says to replace the stern all around light. Bad idea it seems. Personally I like the addition of a stern strobe but not by law. Those things are expensive. No guarantee it would have prevented last year's accident.
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roswellric
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Well Heck
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4/22/2009 8:07:26 AM
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let's just light up the boats like a Christmas tree and play the national anthem over bull horns.
Some legislator always has to try to look like a genius by changing safety lighting. After a while people get used to it and the careless have their accidents anyway.
Sheesh!
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4thelake
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Well Heck
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4/22/2009 9:34:58 AM
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It sounds like a great idea to me. After the horrific accident last summer, it seems like a great addition and or replacement to the existing crappy small bulb that looks like a porch light from a house. Spend any time on the water at night and have a few doubts as weather its a light or a house and you will have no problem with this bill. I remember a thread about these lights a bit ago that had them priced at about $20. Not to bad to be seen and not run over. My 2 cents
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roswellric
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I wonder
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4/22/2009 10:00:09 AM
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How many anchored boats with their light on get hit as opposed to those at anchor with no light on. The worst offenders I have had experience with were fishing. Dang near ran over one once. I can see their usefullness if it's a little foggy but you shouldn't be anchored out under those conditions anyway.
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Pier Pressure
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4/22/2009 12:51:02 PM
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My point is it is a "Stern" light. Unless someone is approaching you from behind they will not see it. Period. Someone stands to make some money selling light. Lobbyist getting paid from some large marine parts distributor.
An omnidirectional anchor light does not strobe. Are they saying that it should also strobe? They don't know enough to understand the difference. Most small boats do not have separate anchor and stern lights. They are one and the same. Does it become a strobe? Small boats that have only one light, when alternating would be a distraction to the driver.
This is just one example of additional legislation that does not enforce the existing legislation that should have deterred the accident to begin with. There are already laws in place that aren't working. For every argument for the marine sanitation device inspection law, the big boat issues, this issue, and others there are existing laws to counter the argument. If those laws are being ignored, why do you think new ones won't be as well?
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Summer Lover
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4/22/2009 1:42:16 PM
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I will send a suggestion that we initiate "common sense legislation" for this - get rid of your current rubrails, and replace them all with rope lights. Red, green and white - not only a safety measure but also more business for our Chinese friends. Because they are safety related items, they can only be installed by approved shops ... any ideas where we could get our boats all blinged up?
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Rooster
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Well Heck
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4/22/2009 1:44:06 PM
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I priced some on the internet and looks expensive to me. Some over $ 100.
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D-dub
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Picture 4th of July
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4/22/2009 5:28:39 PM
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Out in the big water with hundreds of strobe lights all around, I'm getting a headache just thinking about it.
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