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Narrator: Welcome back!
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This is a real working 28 acre boatyard /
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boat building facility residing in Stuart, Florida.
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It's Ship Shape TV's home base.
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Ideally located, the complex is situated
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on the shores of the Okeechobee waterway.
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Which happens to connect the Atlantic Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico.
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Now once again, here's the founder and host of Ship Shape TV,
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John Greviskis!
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John: I don't know if you can see these stamped in letters and numbers.
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But man, are they important.
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Especially liability wise
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if you are a boat owner. Hey welcome back!
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We want to install
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some running lights on our 23 foot Albury Brothers boat.
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And I want to bring to real expert
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in running lights on the program.
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And so I've done it. This is my really good friend Richard Cozier.
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Hey been on the program what? 15 years?
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And running... a long long time.
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Okay we go way back.
Richard: Thanks John for having me back.
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John: Nav Lights. Okay, I see
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a really cool piece of history
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on the table. Show everybody before there were
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engines, before there were batteries.
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Richard: John Perko's been manufacturing navigation
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lights for over 100 years.
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And this is an example of a
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kerosene burning bi-color navigation light.
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Your red and your green,
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and this was actually a light from 1920.
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John: That is so cool. You know lights have really come a long way.
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I do see
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a really famous type of nav light.
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This came off a Chris-Craft didn't it?
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Richard: It's built for that, yes.
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John: Okay.
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Do you still make hardware like this today to replacement?
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Richard: That's actually a current production
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that would be indicative of that you would
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put on restoration for a Chris-Craft.
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John: Okay so a lot of people are doing these restorations
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and a lot of people are looking for lights on older boats.
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Richard: Correct.
John: Okay, let's talk about though
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the stamping. Remember I was showing everybody this?
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Why does a light,
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why does it have to be stamped
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with approval?
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What's the whole theory behind this?
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Richard: John navigation lights require
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to be tested
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on the outside by a third party investigator.
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And they must be stamped that they meet
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certain regulations as far as their viability.
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Now you have two categories for
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vessels either under 20 meters or under 12 meters
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the regulations are different.
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So this is an example of a
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typical configuration of how nav lights
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placements are on a vessel that's
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under 12 meters.
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And this is your particular boat where you
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have white out all-round. And we're gonna go with a
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bi-color light.
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John: Ya know, the longevity of these boats today -
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are there any aftermarket companies making nav lights
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to where they are not approved by the Coast Guard?
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They are not tested by a third party?
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Richard: There are aftermarket lights that are available out there
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at retailers that do not have
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these markings and if they don't have them
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they do not meet the regulations.
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John: What would happen, theoretically,
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if you know I was to buy some of these
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un-stamped lights.
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I put them on my boat and I got in an accident at night?
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Richard: You open yourself up to liabilities for lawsuits.
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John: I better look for some nav lights that are actually
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registered and approved.
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Richard: Correct.
John: Okay really important.
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Okay, let's talk about the difference
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in technology. You know
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nav lights have been around for a while. It went from kerosene
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to incandescent light bulbs.
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Alright, but now there's a big push in LED.
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Can you use LED technology in your navigation light?
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Richard: Yes you can. And that's actually how
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the trend is going within navigation lights.
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John: So, the light that I have
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right here - this is not an incandescent light this is
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an LED light. Show me what's
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inside this housing.
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Richard: This is an example of the LED's
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otherwise known as light emitting diodes.
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And they're actually clear but
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they illuminate in the proper red and green sequence, left and right.
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John: Okay, now this a very
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small gauge wire. LED doesn't
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draw the amount of amps on your batteries
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that incandescent does.
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Richard: No generally they're about 1/10th
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the draw. If an incandescent is 6 amps
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then this would be about half an amp.
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John: Alright let's talk about mounting it.
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I want to find a spot right on the very front of the boat, right at the bow.
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And I need to
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mark for some mounting hardware.
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And I also need to drill through the boat for the wire.
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Okay, and I want to seal that hole up.
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But I also want to use just a small little pilot bit
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for the mounting hardware.
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Now how we are going to hook up our wire is
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we're going to naturally need to peel back a little bit of the insulation.
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We'll use a butt connector
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with some heat shrink and I'm gonna run
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fourteen gauge copper
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tin stranded wire
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to my switches on the dash.
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And then we'll use some silicone along
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with self tapping screws to seal those things off.
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I'm going actually need to wire up my red and green
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and I'm going to need to wire up a white.
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There's three colors here in nav lights.
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And let's talk about the white light here.
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I saw on the chart,
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check this out - look on the chart.
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Do you see how the white is above this red and green?
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Is there a regulation?
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Do I have to have my white light a certain distance above my red and green?
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Richard: Regulations mandate that the white light be
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39 inches or 1 meter above the deck placement of the colored light.
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John: Okay, but I have a hardtop.
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That's well above that. Do you have any shorter white lights?
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Richard: John there's a couple of other options.
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This one here by the way is a folding mount
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that can work.
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And I was looking at your Pursuit that you have back over there
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and you added a radar
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mount to there then you're actually
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blocking the white all-round light
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with the fixture that you have up there now.
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I'd recommend putting this up
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so you can extend up and get your 360 degree visibility.
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John: That white light needs to be able to be seen
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all the way around the boat and that is great observation.
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Thank you for pointing that out. So we're going to switch that light out.
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But I'm not going to be putting a radome onto
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the hardtop of the Albury Brothers boat.
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Richard: This would suffice perfectly for you.
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It's a smaller mount and it's a fixed mount
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that will mount right to the T-Top.
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John: And this also LED?
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Richard: Yes.
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John: Boat models have changed,
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running lights have changed,
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you guys are still making these things.
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Do you have a resource for people that are looking to
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replace their navigation lights
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where they can kind of check all this stuff out?
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Richard: John you can go to www.perko.com
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and check out all the navigation lights
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and varieties and styles that we have.
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And then take a look at your marine
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retailer or online to see if you can
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find in stock or special order them.
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Narrator: Ship Shape TV will be right back!
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