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Originally Posted by jrc
Here is law:
Saf-C 403.19 Lights on Boats or Rafts at Anchor. All vessels, log rafts and rafts as defined in RSA 270:42, IV, when at anchor in the normally traveled portion of the public waters, between sunset and sunrise shall display a white light high enough to show all around the horizon.
I highlighted what I think is the key. If your mooring is not in a normally traveled area, you don't need an anchor light. When I moored, it was in a mooring field, the field had flashing strobes, the boats had no lights. If your boat is near shore, my guess is that you don't need a light.
But if someone runs into your unlit boat and they claim it was a traveled area, you may be stuck proving it wasn't.
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Our association puts four solar power low lying slow binking yellow bouy lights out on the corners of our mooring feild and for the open water between it to the docks. They are orange during the day, we have never had a problem, they are an extremlky good idea, especially when coming in at night, almost like a runway