For what it's worth. Defender ( www.defender.com )has The Aqua Signal masthead tri-color for significantly less $ than West marine. I didn't want to pay the Aqua Signal price for a masthead tricolor with anchor light ($129 at defender, $169 West Marine)so I bolted a $17 perko light on top of the Aqua Signal tri color at $ $72. This combination works just fine however I wouldn't recommend it for most people as it is over kill. The Masthead tri-color can only be used under sail so if you motor after dark you still need yet another set of motoring lights. For me the masthead light is only useful if you do a lot of night sailing in an sea with swells high enough to hide your deck mounted lights a 1/2 mile away. The combination that Howard describes single white perko light at the masthead with deck mounted nav lights is a good solution. Thanks Doug Kelch "Seas the Day" --- Roberta Dvorscak <edarts93@earthlink.net> wrote:
Aqua Signal still makes the masthead tri-color and west Marine still sells them. They are on the following page of their online catalog.
http://www.westmarine.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?store
Id=10001&langId=-1&catalogId=10001&productId=1243&catalogId=10001&classN
um=236&subdeptNum=235&storeNum=9
Sailnet used to sell them for less, however; I don't see them listed in their online catalog (only the tri-color with anchor light).
Mark Dvorscak
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My M17 has a masthead tricolor, red and green in front, white in back, one bulb. No "anchor light" as such. The tricolor is very similar to the Aquasignal series 40, although it doesn't look as if Aquasignal makes the tricolor anymore, but rather a bicolor with anchor light, which would seem to better meet your needs anyway. The light is mounted on a pedestal screwed to the masthead and the wiring runs through the mast to a through-deck (through-hull) plug next to that mast-step. The West
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