"Jeff Morris" jeffmo@NoSpam-sv-lokiDOTcom wrote in message ...
Fact 4) An auxiliary sailboat does not need to have installed
the lights for a motor vessel unless and until it
turns on the motor.

True. It also doesn't need lights during the day in good visibility. Running lights
are
not "required equipment," but their appropriate use is. What's the point?

The point is your statement about Bobsprit's boat needing lower
running lights in addition to any masthead tricolor he might install
is totally wrong.


Is that what this is all about? I was advising RB, taking into account the nature of his
boat and his sailing. He has already told us that he frequently powers back to his slip
at night; he clearly needs lower sidelights. To advise otherwise would be reprehensible.

Your advice was incomplete and wrong. Your wording
was wrong. The idea it conveyed was wrong. When
you tell somebody he must have lower running lights
in addition to the tricolor you need to include the qualifiers
and you did not include them. You made a blanket
generalization based on a motor boat bias.