Narrator: Welcome back aboard! Fishing for boat improvement?
Well you caught it! Right here at Ship Shape TV.
John: Here is yet another one of our project boats.
It's our 19 foot Boston Whaler Nantucket.
And recently we've re-powered it,
with a very fuel efficient
and environmentally friendly
Evinrude 150 horsepower engine.
And I got to tell you the package together
the boat and the motor looks great at the dock.
But what I'd like to do is have it look
great at the dock at night.
And also add some underwater lighting to it.
Which leads us to our next expert guest.
This is Richard Cozier. Richard: How you doing John?
John: I'm great man. Richard is avery good
friend of mine and he is with Perko.
Last year you celebrated your -
your first century
being in business making marine parts for boats.
And I've been at your factory a lot of times seeing how stuff gets made.
How many different parts do you make for pleasure boats?
Richard: John we make over 5,000 different items
ranging from battery switches,
through nav lights, to gas fills, to thru-hulls.
John: Okay, and I
see that this underwater light,
is kind of based on the premise of a thru-hull fitting.
Is this bronze?
Richard: Yes it is, cast bronze.
John: What type of lamp is on the inside?
Richard: It is a 50 watt
halogen incandescent bulb.
It's a very bright bulb.
And you also have a smaller sister of it
which is a 30 watt bulb.
35, excuse me.
John: This a 35 watt halogen this a 50 watt halogen.
Richard: Correct.
John: I was learning a little bit about LED lighting.
I was kind of hoping to go that direction on the Whaler.
Richard: We have an LED version of the larger light.
In actuality you can purchase
the bulb itself from us.
And interchange with that version of the incandescent light.
However this light does come with two bulbs.
It comes with a 25 degree beam
and a 40 degree beam.
It also comes with interchangeable colored lenses,
that allow you to pop them into
the light underwater
and change color from green to blue to white.
John: That's very very cool!
So you change the bulb from the inside of the
boat you never have to do that from the outside of the boat.
Richard: Correct. John: You can kind of unscrew it,
change out the bulb if need be. Richard: Correct.
John: Alright you have LED versions
which draw how much power?
Richard: These draw five watts.
And then we have a brand new LED
which is a surface mount.
Which is what I'm recommending for you to install on the 19.
John: Take a look at how much room I have
on the transom underneath the waterline.
That's where you want to put your underwater lights is under the water, okay.
And I really don't want to go with
the thru-hulls. I don't have enough room
really for one of these thru-hull fitting type underwater lights.
This might fit the bill perfectly.
It's available in two different colors
as you can see blue and white John: Right.
Richard: It installs easily with three self tapping screws.
You have the choice of running
a power wire directly behind the light.
Or running it up above the water line and
coming in above the water line with a clam shell.
John: So, there wouldn't be any
installation cost on hiring somebody out,
cutting the hole saw and making sure that
your transom is sealed.
And all of that.
You do this yourself very easily with three self tapping screws.
And a lot of guys don't want to have a hole
going all the way through their boat underneath the water.
Okay, so what we could do
like on the Whaler, I think what I want to do
is I want to use what's called a p-clamp this is gonna
hold the wire
to the transom so that it's nice and vertical.
I also want it to look nice. And then we can drill
a hole all the way through the boat.
A very small hole, by the way.
All the way through the boat but well above the water line
that will never, kinda
kinda leak. Alright?
But we do want to seal that with silicon
and you know and your sealants.
Use silicon above the water line that's fine.
But use your permanent polyurethane adhesives
down below the water line. Okay?
That's just a little tip there but just some self tapping screws.
Give me a price point. You know not everybody wants
to spend the big money on some of these
1500 dollar, 3000 dollar underwater lights.
Okay, because they're into sport fishing
or fishing at night. How much does this light run?
Richard: John these run about $110 for those lights.
About 150 dollars for the single light.
We also sell them as a two pack for 300 dollars.
John: You know, there are so many boaters that are
trailer boaters.
And I think if the light
is above the water for
too long, you know?
They're afraid of it burning out and that's a pretty expensive feature
to just have burnout on because it got too hot.
Can I run these for a long time
above the water line?
And out of the water? Richard: Yes you can.
These will not break, they do not get hot.
As you can see you're sitting here holding them
these are illuminated at this point in time.
Take a look at the pictures of the ones we have in the water.
John: A lot of people just want to look cool at the dock.
They're really not into fishing.
But I have little kids and I would love to
throw a shrimp over the back of the boat and have them catch something.
Will these lights attract bait fish?
Richard: Yes they do, they provide the ambiance your looking for.
They provide the bait attraction
at a fraction of the price.
John: Because if you can get bait fish to your boat your gonna get some of those predator fish.
Richard, we're going with them. Thank you so much!
Right now we need to take our last time out of the day
but keep it right here because when we come back.
It's the side-by-side-by-side comparison.
We're gong to illuminate things,
right after this!
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