What happens if I try to use my boat that has a red light and a blue light?

Question

It seems that the DNR requires a red and green light but in my old boat the lights are red and blue.

Answer 1

As stated, the Navigation Rules require red lights on the port side and green lights on the starboard side. This is the standard around the world and has been since the 72 COLREGS were adopted by the International Maritime Organization.

In my youth I remember seeing green sidelights that had a bluish tint to them. To be legal you will want to change the light, but you may want to hang-on to the old light as a collectors item.

Answer 2

Depending upon the size of your boat, you'll need running lights. These are red on the port side and green on the starboard side. There is a white light that can be seen from the rear. If you have a motor on at night, the white light needs to be 360 degrees around in addition to the red and green lights.

Answer 3

I am not quite sure what one poster said about the Brits have one system and we Yankees have another.....EVERYONE all over the world.... and as most answers have said... is red to port and green to starboard and its been that way for about 200 years.........

Now, North and South America, Korea Japan and the Philippines have reversed colors on the nav buoys and lights from Europe........International Lighthouse Authority Scheme A or B where you leave red buoys to the right headed back in to harbor in the US and the other way around in Europe..
how you ended up with a blue running light on your starboard side is a big mystery......maybe as one other answerer said it started out green decades ago and lost color to the sun

Answer 4

Somebody in another boat will get confused about what direction you are going in and run you down in the night. And you may not pass inspection depending on where you operate. How did you get a blue light, they have been red and green for decades?

Answer 5

the standard for all navigation laws around the world is

Green = Starboard
Red = Port

Go to your local marine retailer and replace it
I belive and have herd that blue lights were used at one time or another as an expierment in visibility and some old boats still have them and were never changed out
I know that my old owens had a blue light and was told by the coast guard that it had to be changed out because it did not meet the curent u.s. maritime regs

Answer 6

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Answer 7

The 'blue' light, probably was green when it was new. Replace it ... you should easily find a new lens to fit at Boat US or West marine.

Answer 8

You could get fined if the officer is really hard up to write a ticket.....I would look into replacing the blue light with a green one just in case.

Answer 9

Replace the blue lens, with a green one, the last thing you need is somebody confused about your direction at night, if you can't replace the lens, replace the whole light.

Answer 10

when i was a kid working with my Father on yacht's; most had what one could call "blue" and "red" side lghts. and they were made of real glass too. but that was in the late 50's. what you have is valuable. but as people have pointed out already, not for navigation light's.

put them above your fire place or front door, and get new ones for your yacht........