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