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The only time a vessel should display a red mast top light is : a fishing vessel using nets or lines, not trolling.
A fishing vessel trawling a net over the bottom has a green mast top light.
That's the rules .. if you don't like it, take it up with the international rule making bodies.
Ken James <> wrote:
COLREGS do apply to inland waters as well as international, as they have
a section of the rules devoted to them, these rules are known as the
inland rules. It is true that the international COLREGS apply outside
the lines but that does not mean that as amended for inland use do not
also apply inside.
Red anchor lights appear nowhere in them. As I mentioned before, when I
was in the USN, I seem to recall that we did show a red light at mast
top, for aircraft I think it was. Of course, even a Destroyer has a
taller height than almost any sailboat mast. But. Maybe it is just a
fad,all round just as blue lights were a couple of decades ago. -Ken
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