Adding Navigation Lights

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I'm going to add some LED navigation lights up on the flybridge for better visibility due to location and better brightness. The current nav lights are mounted on the salon sides; they are old and weathered. The new lights will be approximately 6 feet above the current lights. Is it necessary to remove the bulbs from the current lights when the new lights become functional?
 
You only want to show one set of side lights when underway in times of limited visibility. Removal of the bulbs from the original side light fixtures would not be necessary if you disable the power supply to the light fixtures.
 
You will have to disable them one way or another. You can unquestionably NOT show two sets of lights.
 
You can only display one set of lights, if you are add the LED lights, I would remove the existing lights. If you were to leave them in place and they were lit, you could cause confusion to other vessels.
 
Also I believe the side lights must be at least one meter LOWER than the mast head light.
Al
 
What kind of lights are you going to use? I plan to do the same thing on my CHB trawler. The lights are currently on the radar arch (where there is no radar) and they block the lowering on my antennas. I want to move them to either side of the flybridge but want them to be very bright.
 
There are many good navigation light fixtures out there. When I converted to all LED navigation light fixtures I used AquaSignal. They are USCG and just about every 4 letter agency approved in the world.

Bill
 
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