Row Boats and Lighting
 

Got a question and well I'm just to lazy to try to find the answer, everyone here knows EVERYTHING! Does a small aluminum row boat with a tiny outboard on it need any "lighting" after dark?? Wondering if there's a size limit or what the rules are about lighting. Thanks!!

If it has a motor, it needs bow lights (red and green) and an all around white light

See page 8:

https://www.boat-ed.com/abc/abc_spec...dfs/nh_law.pdf

Believe that starting 30-minutes before sunset, a rowboat without a motor, is required to have a white light visible for 360-degrees.


So, if you use a rowboat or kayak or canoe that is rowed or paddled that doesn't have an electric or gasoline motor, something like a five dollar, battery powered lantern with a white light positioned appropriately is required......and common sense tells you that a 24' boat moving at 30-mph with a gps navigation screen in the dark will probably not see your small paddle or rowboat with the small white light. A personal injury situation that may likely become a 'hit & run.'

It's actually sunset to sunrise. 30 minutes is for cars if memory serves.

Seriously? What makes it likely that it would be a hit and run?

I read it as the cruising boat might not realize it hit/swamped the rowboat and, thence, be called a "hit and run" (hence the quotes).

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Correct, link to law in post #3

To me its just common sense. Go to West Marine, Amazon etc or your local store and buy an Led light with a small pole and clamp its worth the $20 and might just let a power boater etc.. see you at night. I carry extra light poles on my power boat one is battery powered.