To bail Skip out and to muddy the waters even more, my West Marine catalog lists 3 versions of a tricolor light by Aqua Signal and all of them are a combination light that also includes an all-around or anchor light. So you have the tricolor and 360 degree anchor light in the same device. I might be daft on the wiring, but I think you would need to run two wires to the masthead and use two switches. But these are expensive, not to mention more windage and weight up high where you really don't want it on boats of this size. It does get the glare of the red/green navigation light off the deck where it can mess with night vision and has only one bulb vs. the two with a bow/stern split light setup. And gets it up higher where it can be seen from farther away. Howard On Oct 19, 2007, at 10:47 PM, Gary M Hyde wrote:
No! The tricolor has red port, green starboard, and white aft. The white is NOT an anchor light. An anchor light is all around white. The tricolor is for traveling at night, not for anchoring.
--Gary Hyde 2005 M17 sailboat #637 'Hydeaway 2' We can't change the wind, but we can trim our sails.