Narrator: Welcome back aboard! Fishing for boat improvement?
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John: We are trying to improve our night vision
today here at Ship Shape TV.
Welcome back, we have gone ahead and
installed some new marine electronics
on the Albury Brothers boat.
I also have a new night vision camera that I want to try,
after dark.
And during the break heck, we even installed a stereo.
Okay and this is a Boss Marine stereo, you gotta have tunes
out on the water. And that was courtesy
of Discount Marine Mart. Thank you guys.
But now what I want to do is I want to talk about
how you can also improve your night vision
just with the lights
that are on board. Especially like navigation lights.
And that leads us to our next expert guest
This is Richard Cozier and hello Richard!
Richard: Hello John good to see you again.
John: Good to see you again! Richard is very good friend of mine
and he's been on the program for
a decade or longer.
And we constantly bring you on because you're such an expert in this field.
Let's talk about why our navigation lights can
sometimes hamper our vision out on the water after dark.
Richard: John, this light here
is an example of your normal
360 degree white all round light.
And as you can see by this illustration
this is the type of beam that is cast from this light.
What it's doing is not only is it casting
it out and up but it's casting
light down onto the deck of the boat which produces glare.
John: What could we do though
to diminish the amount of light
that's spilling down onto our decks.
Richard: John Perko has a couple of different options.
They fall into our category of what we call 'reduced glare' lights.
This is option one. As you can see
the type of beam has now been altered
from what we have just shown you there.
And the bottom portion of the light which is
reflected down as glare off of the boat,
has been eliminated.
You still have your beam that's out
on either side for your two mile visibility.
And you still have light that's being produced out of the top of it.
John: That two mile visibility - that's Coast Guard mandated right?
Richard: Correct. John: Okay you have to have that visibility.
Richard: Correct.
And then we also have a
one that's really good for like bass fisherman that cuts the
beam down to a 14 degree beam on the horizontal.
This is really good. It cuts
down on the amount of bugs that may be
out there or with the white light attracts them.
John: Sure you know bugs, moths,
mosquitoes they are attracted to
the light. And if you can narrow that
field you're going to narrow the amount of bugs
that are kind of coming into your boating experience at night.
Okay, let's talk about
color spectrum. Okay, white is bad for our night vision.
Okay.
Sometimes you need light inside the boat.
And you're still going to be running the boat at night.
What color light do you go with?
Richard: John red is the least intrusive
to the human eye. And therefore being
able to put in a courtesy
light or a dome light that has dual capability
for both red and white light, is the option that you would look at.
So this is a dome light - it's incandescent.
It would mount up
underneath of your canopy.
And it has a switch to go
both red of white.
And then, these are LED versions
of the two lights.
One of them is on a bracket.
This one here would be good for mounting underneath
your gunnels or as cockpit light.
John: Lights are everywhere on boats.
Okay and I know that you guys make a ton
of lights for boats.
Do you have type of resource that
we can get the people in the audience
connected with Perko?
Richard: You can go to perko.com
and look up anything from navigation lights
to thru-hulls
to strainers to any of our products that we carry.
John: Like always you are a plethora
of tips. And speaking of tips,
here's today's very next one.