Thanks, George. --Craig ----- Original Message ----- From: George Burmeyer To: For and about Montgomery Sailboats Sent: Sunday, March 27, 2005 12:06 AM Subject: L.E.D. "Retrofit" Craig, You can also get LED portable lights from Defender (page 321 of their new catalog or on line). They are made by Innovative Lighting. The catalog lists a krypton replacement bulb as well as an LED replacement which suggests to me that you might be able to retrofit a standard fixture w/ LEDs. BTW, the clamp mounts on these things are not the greatest quality and unless they are mounted on a nice square board (not a sloping fiberglass deck edge or steel rail), I wouldn't trust them to stay put for long. George M15 #385 On 3/26/05 3:52 PM, "Larry E Yake" <leyake@juno.com> wrote: Craig, You can get portable LED navigation lights through Cabelas. The come on a C clamp mounting bracket, use 4 AA batteries, last up to 100 hours on a set of batteries, and cost $22 each. I found them in their catalog, but I'm sure they would be on the web site, too. www.cabelas.com Larry On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 18:17:22 -0500 "Craig F. Honshell" <chonshell@ia4u.net> writes: After reading about Bill's Ankerlight (excellent link, Bill, thanks for sharing), I started wondering: Could the portable "dinghy nav lights", such as those previously available through West Marine by Aqua Signal (and now available through West Marine in some brand I don't recognize), be retrofit with L.E.D. bulbs? These AA-battery powered dinghy nav lights with mounting bracket options are good backups . . . But the standard bulbs go through batteries quickly.