Too many new boaters with too much boat (especially HP) is the recipe for tragedy. Your lesson is a good start. Your comments on fewer lights, especially turning your docking lights off, and reduced speed are spot on. I am rarely on the water at night now because it is just too risky. Thanks for the effort you put into making boating safer and more fun for all of us.
yea no shit man.. our police and government will destroy your life over a few beers.. you dont have to be drunk to get busted for going to be drunk later on ...lol its the only crime that runs off a WHAT IF yea we dont needs drunk driver on road or operating a boat. so for all my boater friends serious tip here.. always drop anchor and put your one single white all around light on.. then proceed to get hammered.. i would do this day or night.. when approached for safety shit please have all that shit in one box along with copies of all person and boat documents, they pull up, just hand them a clear see through plastic container with it all in it.. i do same for my car copy of license, insurance and registration, i have this out and ready BEFORE they get up to my door and ask for it. thats all the info they need to right up a ticket. .. dont be an easy target cop seeing you thumble around for this shit..
Excellent video Sean. Always top notch common sense advice. I see really stupid boating on my river down here in Louisiana. Like the new open for your videos.
We were on all.Ontario one night in our 18ft’r and hit a rogue wave; and let me tell you, we learned real-fast not to go out at night just for a pleasure drive. Thanks for this.🇨🇦
Love these videos! Thank you! Could you do a video about what happens if you hit a shipping container? I have often wondered if it is a regional risk in the shipping lanes or are the left to drift? If so, what happens after the boat is secure? Who is at fault? The shipping company, the company that owns the container or you? How big of a PITA is it to walk through the insurance on a thing like that? Just something I wonder about...
good video. that part about less light being more is spot on. done a lot a whole lot of night fishing in the great dismal swamp. even though my grandpa knew it like his hand & i fished frogged with him my whole life. i always drop a bread crumb trail on my gps going in so if i dont have enough stars & moon coming out later. not a lot of fast boats on the swamp though. Now the James river. more lights might be better. as the comment below mentions. lot of boat traffic in the channel. might even come across an oil tanker in middle of river. higher HPs people going even faster. True story buddy bought a new bass boat. went out fishin came back at night. Hit a deer YES a deer in the middle of the channel 65ft deep 1/4 mile wide. darn deer out there swimming the channel at night. well boat & deer both lost barely made it back to the ramp.
Did he say "go slow"---so simple, but it is important. And not just because YOU may not see something, it is because of "the other guy" who may not be doing the right thing is more likely to hit you if you are "hauling ass" . Another thing is those big Auxiliary lights--I have a pair, and I can light up the night with them. See, that helps ME, but it can blind the other guy. At night, you hear about getting your "night vision"--that means your pupils get large as you sit there--those giant lights destroy the other guy's eyes--so use any large light....SPARINGLY. Last, and this is the 3rd thing, just stay off the water at night, when you can. Very very few of us boaters have any business whatsoever on the water at night.
Not the way I've been doing it for 40 years. 25 years teaching beginning sailors, evenings out of Chicago. 8 non-stop sailboat races to Mackinac (333 miles); Chicago-Key West non-stop 24/7 delivery, including Gulf crossing. Waiting until Saturday morning to go really cuts into the week-end and only causes you finish in the dark.
Too many new boaters with too much boat (especially HP) is the recipe for tragedy. Your lesson is a good start. Your comments on fewer lights, especially turning your docking lights off, and reduced speed are spot on. I am rarely on the water at night now because it is just too risky. Thanks for the effort you put into making boating safer and more fun for all of us.
The number one safety tip in boating night or day !
Don’t drink and drive !!!
Glad you brought it up. 👍
yea no shit man.. our police and government will destroy your life over a few beers.. you dont have to be drunk to get busted for going to be drunk later on ...lol its the only crime that runs off a WHAT IF yea we dont needs drunk driver on road or operating a boat. so for all my boater friends serious tip here.. always drop anchor and put your one single white all around light on.. then proceed to get hammered.. i would do this day or night.. when approached for safety shit please have all that shit in one box along with copies of all person and boat documents, they pull up, just hand them a clear see through plastic container with it all in it.. i do same for my car copy of license, insurance and registration, i have this out and ready BEFORE they get up to my door and ask for it. thats all the info they need to right up a ticket. .. dont be an easy target cop seeing you thumble around for this shit..
Best advice I ever got about night boating from an old salt, “No Light, No Wake”
It's a scary experience, period. Particularly, at sea... Hello from São Paulo, Brazil 🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷.
Excellent video Sean. Always top notch common sense advice. I see really stupid boating on my river down here in Louisiana. Like the new open for your videos.
We were on all.Ontario one night in our 18ft’r and hit a rogue wave; and let me tell you, we learned real-fast not to go out at night just for a pleasure drive. Thanks for this.🇨🇦
Love these videos! Thank you! Could you do a video about what happens if you hit a shipping container? I have often wondered if it is a regional risk in the shipping lanes or are the left to drift? If so, what happens after the boat is secure? Who is at fault? The shipping company, the company that owns the container or you? How big of a PITA is it to walk through the insurance on a thing like that? Just something I wonder about...
Great video thanks.
good video. that part about less light being more is spot on. done a lot a whole lot of night fishing in the great dismal swamp. even though my grandpa knew it like his hand & i fished frogged with him my whole life. i always drop a bread crumb trail on my gps going in so if i dont have enough stars & moon coming out later. not a lot of fast boats on the swamp though.
Now the James river. more lights might be better. as the comment below mentions. lot of boat traffic in the channel. might even come across an oil tanker in middle of river. higher HPs people going even faster. True story buddy bought a new bass boat. went out fishin came back at night. Hit a deer YES a deer in the middle of the channel 65ft deep 1/4 mile wide. darn deer out there swimming the channel at night. well boat & deer both lost barely made it back to the ramp.
Great video, good advice. Slow down at night!
Good video and excellent topic.
I live on the west coast. On a small island and we have to boat across. It gets foggy here. That's the worst time to be boating.
See tree stumps and concrete spillway inlets and that kind of thing?
Did he say "go slow"---so simple, but it is important. And not just because YOU may not see something, it is because of "the other guy" who may not be doing the right thing is more likely to hit you if you are "hauling ass" . Another thing is those big Auxiliary lights--I have a pair, and I can light up the night with them. See, that helps ME, but it can blind the other guy. At night, you hear about getting your "night vision"--that means your pupils get large as you sit there--those giant lights destroy the other guy's eyes--so use any large light....SPARINGLY. Last, and this is the 3rd thing, just stay off the water at night, when you can. Very very few of us boaters have any business whatsoever on the water at night.
Just don't do it. It's dangerous and irresponsible.
Not the way I've been doing it for 40 years. 25 years teaching beginning sailors, evenings out of Chicago. 8 non-stop sailboat races to Mackinac (333 miles); Chicago-Key West non-stop 24/7 delivery, including Gulf crossing. Waiting until Saturday morning to go really cuts into the week-end and only causes you finish in the dark.