Under gunnel LED;s - on a roll

[eggsuckindog]

Just redid my under gunnel LED's today - simple - I got some new one's from Scarb Chris - much easier to work with http://www.coastalnightlights.com/

I had some in already but the itty bitty wires broke after a year or so, Chris's wire was much heavier and easier to work with - also found my main ground ahd pulled out.

So I bought 10ft of Chris's blue strips and found out all the other ones still worked too.

So, I also figured out a brillent way to install them on SeaCrafts - they come with an adhesive strip although with my gunnel walls that would make them point towards the outer hull ( on an MA anyway) - got a piece of quarter round at HD and some double sided tape ( paint dept) and put the strips an the QR and my double sided tape on the other part of the QR and just stuck them along the inside of the gunnel - now they point down. I did take pic's of this brillent install idea.

I had previously run wire down the rigging tube to both sides of the boat and up under the gunnels, the baitwell side of an MA is tricky, you have to come from the top down with a fish wire. Once you have power Chris's lights are sweet as they just plug in, I used my 10ft in a 3ft section in the stern area - then the existing lights covered the console section and then 2 more 12" sections in the bow area. I had the other lights that I just added to the butt connectors along the way but they are quite bright but you would need to pretty much run the length of the gunnel for best effect. So just get power to the stern area and you could run the entire length just plugging in the sectiona and sticking the QR to the inside of the gunnel.

I will post the pic's as I am also doing the sleep platform pic's at the same time.

Yes it now really looks like a genuuiine Carniavl Cruise ship

[Blue197320]

yes dixon please post those pics. im looking into those LEDs as well. for the big boat and the little one probably in red though.

[BigLew]

probably in red though.

They don't kill the "night vision" when fishing after dark. The amber ones work as bug lites- they don't attract the bugs when fishing in the river at night. Both are indirect; that helps a lot as well.

[eggsuckindog]

They don't kill the "night vision" when fishing after dark. The amber ones work as bug lites- they don't attract the bugs when fishing in the river at night. Both are indirect; that helps a lot as well.

Mine have nothing to do with night vision, if I start running I just turn them off, The blue just looks really cool so gotta have it

I will get the pics finished today as I finished tucking away all the wires yesterday - I'll try and figure out the new camera and see if I can get a shot at night without the flash too

[eggsuckindog]

took all the pics today of everything - after last pic got a "card error" warning - wouldn't do anything, pulled it a couple times - now I see the pics on the camera but can't get them on the puter - will work on it. Always somethin

[Old'sCool]

What length and where did you install. I was thinking (23') one 4' length each side bow and stern areas kind of centered.

[MasterBaiter]

When I did mine the lights were 6 footers from Cabelas (only white). I started at the transom and stopped when I ran out of lights. I like the white, not at all harsh and no glare. In front of the console is dark, but I don't fish there.