Quick and simple guide to ship lights remembering the colour combinations

Quick and simple guide to remembering ship light combinations as per the IRPCS or COLREGS.
We present a simplified way of remembering the various lights that are shown by ships, boats and yachts to indicate to other vessels information about heading and vessel type.
A single red or green light will most likely be the sidelight - and in the simplest form this means that the vessel is underway and gives an indication of which side of the vessel you are looking at.
More red lights that you see, the more you should stay away
If in doubt, head for the dark parts of the horizon - if it I safe to do so!
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[@omkaryashwantrao5058]

Most simplified version till now. God bless u for this

[@miketheloko]

now everything is clear, thanks gentleman.

[@jasonbatt3068]

Solid simple and memorable comparisons, thanks!

[@CoastalSafety]

My pleasure - happy you found the videos useful :-)

[@CoastalSafety]

Same as your week appreciated comments. Thank you so much.

[@patdevinwilson]

Rules of the Road. OUPV here I come!

[@CoastalSafety]

Good luck 🤞👍

[@raykeogh1972]

Thank you. I am a total newbie and there is a lot to take these videos are amazing help. Thanks for sharing I’ve subscribed

[@CoastalSafety]

Welcome aboard!

[@richardrowe3635]

This is the closest thing I've seen so far to what I'm always banging on about in instructor networks.. actually giving the information to people in ways that help them REMEMBER!! While one could be hyper critical and say that the flashing yellow/orange light isn't only for hovercraft (oh ye of Solent only thinking, lol) it's for all non displacement (planing) fast craft etc etc, and while I loved the mnemonic with trawlinG at night being G over W, unfortunately the word FishinG also ends with a G so once a bit of time has passed, the student could forget which word it was.. however these are a great injection into our industry where so much of the teaching is mediocre and so many students can't remember anything because of it! Keep it up. RR

[@CoastalSafety]

Thank you for your kind critique. I love the challenge of condensing hours of college lectures into a few minutes of "video notes". You could think of these videos as a AV version of "Munroe's Seamanship Primer" ! The additional challenge is that many of my students in the Middle East, India and Sri Lanka will be speaking "English" as a second language … so, thanks to student feedback (Shirly, Rex & Dinesh) I have learnt to speak "International English" … but that is another story :-) Please enjoy my videos and "share the love" if you find them useful :-)

[@nobrayn]

I think of the red fishing light as a “red herring”, except… that totally goes against what the term “red herring” means!

[@lundenhoward7528]

Thanks for the video!

[@CoastalSafety]

You are welcome. If you like our videos and find them useful ..... please share on your social media 🏝😎⛵

[@dr.haithamal-sadoni900]

Perfect... well done nicely... thanks a lot...

[@CoastalSafety]

Thank you so much for your kind words. Are there any other videos that we could make?

[@TechyMedic28]

In Virginia, a small vessel under oars may also display side lights.

[@saysayligano9796]

By the way, in the United states a flashing yellow light usually means a vessel being pushed by tug in INLAND waters. Thanks for the videos again

[@CoastalSafety]

You have a good point - fast flashing yellow and slow flashing yellow means different things in different parts of the world

[@azy631]

Thanks

[@CoastalSafety]

Welcome :-)

[@saysayligano9796]

Thank you sir

[@CoastalSafety]

You are very welcome. Our aim is to provide people with good quality and useful information so that you can safely enjoy being on the sea

[@brucemcnair8887]

Excellent! I like the rhymes 😂👍

[@CoastalSafety]

Thank you for your kind words. How to take a huge amount of information and make it concise - always a challenge. To give as much information as possible, yet keep the time frame down so that it is manageable :-) Considerable time and effort goes in to making these videos and appreciation is appreciated :-) Thank you for commenting :-)

[@brucemcnair8887]

Coastal Safety I spent 30 years + squashing the redundant air out of verbiage. Not always an easy task when educating folk as it leaves one open to criticism of "oversimplifying".

[@CoastalSafetyInt]

@@brucemcnair8887 Exactly. This latest video was watched by over 1000 people in the first 24 hours. On Facebook we received so many comments and thank you's. I have been teaching this subject for many years to people who do not speak English as a first language - that is how I developed a method of speaking simply whilst still getting the message through and understood :-) Thank you for your support :-)

[@hookednrolling2009]

Pretty good stuff great learninG tool love the rhymes for the lights are on or off so be alerT lol thanks JT Palmetto Bay fl class of 81’ palmetto panthers 🐆

[@CoastalSafety]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@bentota]

Bhome stuth machan!

[@elvinhuseynov6418]

Good practice for navigator

[@CoastalSafety]

I feel good about passing on "lessons learnt" from my own experience at sea and my own teaching experiences - "sail safe and prosper" 😎

[@CoastalSafety]

Did you see our other videos?

[@CoastalSafety]

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[@tatogelashvili4372]

if collor blind person with not strong collor deficiency whi can distinguish this collors can bceome a seaman(including corrective glasses)???

[@rajumorcha8984]

Good evening sir

[@CoastalSafety]

Good evening to you also😎

[@rezi7540]

👏👌👍👍

[@CoastalSafety]

:-)

[@TheRIBLING]

Fishing also ends in G aaaaah :)))

[@CoastalSafety]

It's easier to think of red lobsters and green trawling nets., Every little helps to remember

[@TheRIBLING]

@@CoastalSafety Thanks

[@lars_xrp1311]

Good day sir, do you have a video for DAY light?

[@CoastalSafety]

Coming soon :-)