Show us your night boats

[Ghost 2501]

We all like to see boats lit up for night time sailing, so what have you done to your boats.

Show us all your pics, with name of boat. It doesn't have to be a shot taken on the water.

Anyway, here's mine.

The sailboat (sorry Kmot) is Rafale Atlantique, a Graupner University Club RTR converted to 4channel operation with side lights and a stern light.

The cargo ship is Gemini, a Graupner Neptun, she has 6 companionway lights, bow light, mast head light, stern light and side lights, she's the first ship i lit up.

In the foreground of the pic is Nord Icelandia, my current project. at this stage she has 2x sidelights, bow light, mast light, stern light, special ops lights, (they are the red-white-red lights on the side of the mast), a blue interior light in the superstructure and a deck light on the aft block.

[toesup]

Some from a Night Run here..
http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=920439&highlight=night

And 'd'O'... a quite illuminating Springer.. :D

[Ghost 2501]

am i seeing things there, is she shining lights downward as well?

[Rich S. - CV, CA]

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USS Tarawa LHA-1

[toesup]

am i seeing things there, is she shining lights downward as well?

You must be seeing things again Ghosty... ;)

[herrmill]

Toes is just showing off - he's going to be on the MTV's new show Pimp My Boat. :D :D :D

[Ghost 2501]

Rich can you get some more pics of the tarawa please

[DanL]

Here's my VacUTug "Rosco" in some night shots.

[SD rc boater]

Toes,

Are those LEDs in the bottom of your springer? Looks very nice. :)

[mrbassman]

Toes is just showing off - he's going to be on the MTV's new show Pimp My Boat. :D :D :D


Fuzzy dice hanging in the bridge and a horn that plays "La Cucaracha" ??

[toesup]

Toes,

Are those LEDs in the bottom of your springer?

Yup... 4 row's of LED's.. and the colors are 'changable' :o

[Ghost 2501]

Yup... 4 row's of LED's.. and the colors are 'changable' :o

You'z a going all bling and gangsta on us :eek: what next will we be ridin' spinners?

[Umi_Ryuzuki]

All it needs is the circuit from a radio shack light organ and a small mp3 player.
Then the LED will dance to the music. :p

[tweety777]

Hello guys,

Here are some pics of my Well Enhancer.

http://albums.modelbrouwers.nl/coppermine/albums/userpics/10782/2009-01-04_verlichting_01v.jpg

http://albums.modelbrouwers.nl/coppermine/albums/userpics/10782/2009-01-04_verlichting_02v.jpg
These are the same pics as in the buildlog.

Greetings Josse

[Ghost 2501]

fully lit, thats gonna be a serious boat :)

[tweety777]

Hello guys,

Here are some more pics of the recent testing.

http://albums.modelbrouwers.nl/coppermine/albums/userpics/10782/2009-03-10_verlichting_02v.jpg

http://albums.modelbrouwers.nl/coppermine/albums/userpics/10782/2009-03-10_verlichting_03v.jpg

http://albums.modelbrouwers.nl/coppermine/albums/userpics/10782/2009-03-10_verlichting_05v.jpg

Greetings Josse

[TugboatTom]

Aint nothing more beautiful. Gotta love the one with the LEDs on the bottom. Talk about flashy!

[towboatjoe]

Here's some night views of the pilot house on my towboat American Viking.

[boater_dave]

Not my boat, but it was taken at my house. Chucks beautiful 82' Point Charles cutter.

Dave

[Hoghappy]

My night light. :)

[tsenecal]

does this count as a night boat?

[Ghost 2501]

does this count as a night boat?

no but 2 miles down, it is a tad dark! :D nice alvin, ever thaugt of building Atlantis in the same scale??

[rye 332]

scratch build cabin crusier hull is a pt boat design 16 leds and going to make dolls in the back move back and forward and a small ipod for music

[Olscuzbut]

Considdering I wasn't going to put any lights on it, seeing all the others out there, changed my mind.

[Ghost 2501]

looking good :),

though under way your bridge would be as dark as possible so you dont get reflection on the glass which would make it impossible to see where you're going, (try looking out of your kitchen window at night with the light turned on, then do the same again with the kitchen light turned off).

[norgale]

You have a kitchen window? Geeze I've been living in a trailer too long. Ha! Pete

[Olscuzbut]

Thats my anchored lights. I won't be inside the bridge when running at night. I want to make sure I am going to see it from the shore. How is that for an excuse?

[tweety777]

Thats my anchored lights. I won't be inside the bridge when running at night. I want to make sure I am going to see it from the shore. How is that for an excuse?

That's no excuse, there have been invented decklights for being able to see your model at distance at night.
I will try to find out what it will look like tonight with the decklight (only 1) on at the Well Enhancer, and see what it will do.
I think decklights will give enough light in the right direction (when you use enough, and they are bright enough) to see where your model is, and also what is surrounding the model.

If that isn't enough, add interior lights, majorly the ones on the desks, will shine more directly to your fase, but as water reflects the light very well i don't think that will be needed.

Greetings Josse

[Ghost 2501]

Nord Icelandia's internal light comes from the back face of the LED's, only really notable when viewed from the front. my bridge will never get lit up, its a bit difficult to light up 2x1 pine from the inside

[tweety777]

Here's a photo of Well Enhancer with only 1 decklight on, not on the water, 1 engine has died, so couldn't sail with her, so add the water with the reflection of the light on it yourself and you see that lights inside the bridge aren't needed.

Greetings Josse

[Ghost 2501]

time to add more :D

[rye 332]

better picture of my cabin crusier

[Kmot]

gpzy's tug! :D

[tweety777]

Here's a photo of Well Enhancer moored in the water with no ballast, and 1 decklight on.

Greetings Josse

[Olscuzbut]

Considdering we don't have a pond to sail in yet, never mind night sailing, this thread has got me going with the lighting thingy. Did my Calypso now I am into my 20 year old Smit Nederland.

[Ghost 2501]

Tom, thats a helluva lot of xmas lites

[NEPTUNE 1]

Hi all,

These are my deck lights on HMS Fearless :)

Russ

[Olscuzbut]

Added red light to bridge of my tug, and changed out the incandescent bulb in the Calypso in the bridge to a red LED. Exposure time on my camera makes it look much brighter than it really is.

[Tugboatjoe]

http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a41/Tugboatjoe/DSC01198.jpg

[tweety777]

Went night-sailing yesterday, so here are a few pics of it.
http://albums.modelbrouwers.nl/coppermine/albums/userpics/10782/2009-03-29_varen_01v.jpg
Here were allraedy 20 LED's which were temporarly laying in the wheelhouse switched on.
http://albums.modelbrouwers.nl/coppermine/albums/userpics/10782/2009-03-29_varen_02v.jpg
Here all the lights were on, including the walking-light, which acted as a masthead-light.

Are movies of nightsailing on-topic?
If it does, i'll post some soon.

Greetings Josse

[patmat2350]

Inside my little tug's cabin...

[herrmill]

That's a very nice touch, Pat.

Knowing your work, I wouldn't be too surprised to learn that those dogs on the doors actually work. :cool:

[patmat2350]

Hee hee, you haven't been following the YTL-710 thread? Of course they work!

http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?p=11742548#post11742548

[Ghost 2501]

tugboatjoe, can we have a propper dark pic of mr darby please, looks light she would be impressive with boat lights only.

whats the full boat like pat? oh josse, well enhancer's beginning to lookgood.

we need some of umi's boats here now :D

[patmat2350]

see the thread, Ghost!

[tweety777]

Hi Ghost,

Thanks for the compliment.

Are movies of night-sailing on-topic?

Greetings Josse

[Ghost 2501]

i think the hansen dam lot did one on their blog somewhere.

PMBC will be doing one later on this year toward the end of the sailing season

[Ghost 2501]

Nord Icelandia at night on a lake

[pops52]

Ghost,

I think we should pass the hat and buy you a new camera. :)

[Ghost 2501]

the camera has a NIGHT MODE which automatically comes un, making use of as much available light as possible, (which sadly boosts up the noise), here's a daytime pic wth the same camera.

[Ghost 2501]

ps, and NO I dont use flash as that turns off the night mode

[Umi_Ryuzuki]

Ghost,

I think we should pass the hat and buy you a new camera. :)

Hey a lot of us are happy with the camera Ghost has....
You should have seen his pictures before he got this camera. :p

(I used to joke that he was allowed to turn lights on in his house.)

[Ghost 2501]

and the old one was like looking through soup as well

[tweety777]

A good tripod, low ISO-number and long shutter-time will do the job.
This is impossible to do without a tripod, as the shuttertime needs to be too long.

Greetings Josse

[Ghost 2501]

josse, thats fine for an slr, however my camera is pocket sized compact, that would probably fit inside a cigarrette packet.

[pops52]

I remember his old one. I had to change my glasses prescription as a result. I thought he accidentally picked it up by mistake. :)

Higher ISO speeds = grain and washout. Lower ones, with longer shutter speeds, even with a tripod, will result with light streaking with even the smallest of ripple on the water. You had a tough assignment at that low of light.

Just being me, Ghost. No harm meant. :o

[boater_dave]

Not wanting to hijack this thread too much, but do modern digital cameras have infinite shutter time? Mine has only a range that is not long enough in some cases. The camera is a Fuji Finepix S5700. Is there a work around, or do you just have a really nice camera.
I'm beginning to miss my 35mm film camera more and more.

Dave

[CornelP]

I actually passed a similar Fuji to the kids (longest shutter: 4sec)... Get something serious (not that expensive though) like Nikon D series. Makes a HUGE difference, especially in full manual mode. A starter D60 will go under 500Euro, I am sure it will be MUCH cheaper in the US...

[rye 332]

here my cabin crusiers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRwvpHpzwGA&feature=channel_page

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3maQj7_KTZU

[Ghost 2501]

those LED's are BRIGHT

[rye 332]

heres run 2 and 3 new camera better movies, rye
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJ1W0ToZV4E&feature=channel_page

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtEAaynjNdI&feature=channel_page

[patmat2350]

http://matthewsmodelmarine.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/ggnite.jpg

from the night run at the 2005 Great Lakes Scale Model Boat Show & Regatta (http://matthewsmodelmarine.wordpress.com/2009/06/27/2005-great-lakes-model-boat-show/)

[Kmot]

Still looks like daylight to me. :p

THIS is a night run! :D

[Cadmunkey]

I got these shots tonight after I got all my lights installed on my little tuna fishing boat. The lights are LED's cast into poly. resin. I got them from Umi Ryuzuki. They work great, I think I want to increase the resistors for the running lights as they are quite bright. The white work lights are on a switch that turns them on and off from the TX. Pretty cool if I do say so myself.

Cheers,

[Prins Willem]

boater_dave invited the club over last Saturday to take advantage of the unseasonably nice day and the early sunset. he put photos in the November newsletter.

[jenno]

Hi All,
Here's a few of my American Beauty.


Jenno.

[ropanach]

The Tiger Sun,
I lightened up the pic's so they wouldn't look so fuzzy, sorry about that

[MarcRacer18]

A cousin of mine once taped a little AAA Flashlight to the nose of a Traxxas Villan IV. That counts? But no pics.. Those boats do look awsome in the dark!

[boater_dave]

Prinz refered to my last night run...


Dave