WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.200 --> 00:00:03.700 Narrator: Welcome back aboard! Fishing for boat improvement? 2 00:00:03.700 --> 00:00:06.700 Well you caught it! Right here on Ship Shape TV. 3 00:00:07.900 --> 00:00:11.200 John: We are trying to improve our night vision 4 00:00:11.200 --> 00:00:13.000 today here at Ship Shape TV. 5 00:00:13.000 --> 00:00:15.000 Welcome back, we have gone ahead and 6 00:00:15.000 --> 00:00:17.400 installed some new marine electronics 7 00:00:17.400 --> 00:00:19.000 on the Albury Brothers boat. 8 00:00:19.000 --> 00:00:22.300 I also have a new night vision camera that I want to try, 9 00:00:22.300 --> 00:00:23.600 after dark. 10 00:00:23.600 --> 00:00:26.000 And during the break heck, we even installed a stereo. 11 00:00:26.000 --> 00:00:29.400 Okay and this is a Boss Marine stereo, you gotta have tunes 12 00:00:29.400 --> 00:00:31.400 out on the water. And that was courtesy 13 00:00:31.400 --> 00:00:33.700 of Discount Marine Mart. Thank you guys. 14 00:00:33.700 --> 00:00:35.900 But now what I want to do is I want to talk about 15 00:00:35.900 --> 00:00:38.900 how you can also improve your night vision 16 00:00:38.900 --> 00:00:40.900 just with the lights 17 00:00:40.900 --> 00:00:43.600 that are on board. Especially like navigation lights. 18 00:00:43.600 --> 00:00:45.600 And that leads us to our next expert guest 19 00:00:45.600 --> 00:00:47.800 This is Richard Cozier and hello Richard! 20 00:00:47.800 --> 00:00:49.100 Richard: Hello John good to see you again. 21 00:00:49.100 --> 00:00:51.100 John: Good to see you again! Richard is very good friend of mine 22 00:00:51.100 --> 00:00:53.100 and he's been on the program for 23 00:00:53.100 --> 00:00:54.800 a decade or longer. 24 00:00:54.800 --> 00:00:58.200 And we constantly bring you on because you're such an expert in this field. 25 00:00:58.200 --> 00:01:01.100 Let's talk about why our navigation lights can 26 00:01:01.100 --> 00:01:05.500 sometimes hamper our vision out on the water after dark. 27 00:01:05.500 --> 00:01:07.500 Richard: John, this light here 28 00:01:07.500 --> 00:01:09.400 is an example of your normal 29 00:01:09.400 --> 00:01:11.400 360 degree white all round light. 30 00:01:11.400 --> 00:01:13.400 And as you can see by this illustration 31 00:01:13.400 --> 00:01:16.000 this is the type of beam that is cast from this light. 32 00:01:16.000 --> 00:01:18.200 What it's doing is not only is it casting 33 00:01:18.200 --> 00:01:20.200 it out and up but it's casting 34 00:01:20.500 --> 00:01:23.500 light down onto the deck of the boat which produces glare. 35 00:01:24.000 --> 00:01:25.500 John: What could we do though 36 00:01:25.500 --> 00:01:27.200 to diminish the amount of light 37 00:01:27.200 --> 00:01:29.000 that's spilling down onto our decks. 38 00:01:29.000 --> 00:01:31.100 Richard: John Perko has a couple of different options. 39 00:01:31.100 --> 00:01:34.600 They fall into our category of what we call 'reduced glare' lights. 40 00:01:34.600 --> 00:01:37.100 This is option one. As you can see 41 00:01:37.500 --> 00:01:39.500 the type of beam has now been altered 42 00:01:39.500 --> 00:01:41.500 from what we have just shown you there. 43 00:01:41.500 --> 00:01:43.500 And the bottom portion of the light which is 44 00:01:43.500 --> 00:01:45.900 reflected down as glare off of the boat, 45 00:01:45.900 --> 00:01:47.300 has been eliminated. 46 00:01:47.300 --> 00:01:49.500 You still have your beam that's out 47 00:01:49.500 --> 00:01:52.000 on either side for your two mile visibility. 48 00:01:52.000 --> 00:01:54.700 And you still have light that's being produced out of the top of it. 49 00:01:54.700 --> 00:01:57.300 John: That two mile visibility - that's Coast Guard mandated right? 50 00:01:57.300 --> 00:01:59.500 Richard: Correct. John: Okay you have to have that visibility. 51 00:01:59.500 --> 00:02:00.300 Richard: Correct. 52 00:02:00.300 --> 00:02:02.300 And then we also have a 53 00:02:02.300 --> 00:02:05.300 one that's really good for like bass fisherman that cuts the 54 00:02:05.300 --> 00:02:08.900 beam down to a 14 degree beam on the horizontal. 55 00:02:08.900 --> 00:02:10.900 This is really good. It cuts 56 00:02:10.900 --> 00:02:12.900 down on the amount of bugs that may be 57 00:02:12.900 --> 00:02:15.500 out there or with the white light attracts them. 58 00:02:15.500 --> 00:02:17.700 John: Sure you know bugs, moths, 59 00:02:17.700 --> 00:02:19.700 mosquitoes they are attracted to 60 00:02:19.700 --> 00:02:21.700 the light. And if you can narrow that 61 00:02:21.700 --> 00:02:23.900 field you're going to narrow the amount of bugs 62 00:02:23.900 --> 00:02:26.400 that are kind of coming into your boating experience at night. 63 00:02:26.400 --> 00:02:28.400 Okay, let's talk about 64 00:02:28.400 --> 00:02:31.400 color spectrum. Okay, white is bad for our night vision. 65 00:02:31.400 --> 00:02:32.700 Okay. 66 00:02:32.700 --> 00:02:35.000 Sometimes you need light inside the boat. 67 00:02:35.000 --> 00:02:37.300 And you're still going to be running the boat at night. 68 00:02:37.300 --> 00:02:39.100 What color light do you go with? 69 00:02:39.100 --> 00:02:41.100 Richard: John red is the least intrusive 70 00:02:41.100 --> 00:02:43.100 to the human eye. And therefore being 71 00:02:43.100 --> 00:02:45.100 able to put in a courtesy 72 00:02:45.100 --> 00:02:47.700 light or a dome light that has dual capability 73 00:02:47.700 --> 00:02:50.900 for both red and white light, is the option that you would look at. 74 00:02:50.900 --> 00:02:53.200 So this is a dome light - it's incandescent. 75 00:02:53.200 --> 00:02:55.200 It would mount up 76 00:02:55.200 --> 00:02:57.200 underneath of your canopy. 77 00:02:57.200 --> 00:02:59.200 And it has a switch to go 78 00:02:59.200 --> 00:03:01.200 both red of white. 79 00:03:01.200 --> 00:03:04.000 And then, these are LED versions 80 00:03:04.000 --> 00:03:05.700 of the two lights. 81 00:03:05.700 --> 00:03:07.300 One of them is on a bracket. 82 00:03:07.300 --> 00:03:09.500 This one here would be good for mounting underneath 83 00:03:09.500 --> 00:03:11.300 your gunnels or as cockpit light. 84 00:03:11.300 --> 00:03:13.300 John: Lights are everywhere on boats. 85 00:03:13.300 --> 00:03:15.500 Okay and I know that you guys make a ton 86 00:03:15.500 --> 00:03:17.500 of lights for boats. 87 00:03:17.500 --> 00:03:19.500 Do you have type of resource that 88 00:03:19.500 --> 00:03:21.500 we can get the people in the audience 89 00:03:21.500 --> 00:03:23.500 connected with Perko? 90 00:03:23.500 --> 00:03:25.500 Richard: You can go to perko.com 91 00:03:25.500 --> 00:03:27.900 and look up anything from navigation lights 92 00:03:27.900 --> 00:03:29.900 to thru-hulls 93 00:03:29.900 --> 00:03:32.500 to strainers to any of our products that we carry. 94 00:03:32.500 --> 00:03:34.900 John: Like always you are a plethora 95 00:03:34.900 --> 00:03:36.900 of tips. And speaking of tips, 96 00:03:36.900 --> 00:03:39.400 here's today's very next one.