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side lights - Green and red lights on the starboard and port sides of the boat required for navigation at night. Each light is supposed to be visible through an arc of 112.5°, beginning from directly ahead of the boat to a point 22.

 


Side Lights
Navigation lights; green is to starboard, red to port.
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But if your craft has any pretensions to size provide yourself with a pair of brass side lights and also a good brass anchor light. Avoid those flimsy articles with which the market is flooded. The best are cheapest in the end.

Running lights, used only when the boat is under way, include a white stern light shining aft, red and green side lights shining to port and starboard, and a white bow light (steaming light) shining forward to indicate that the boat is under power; ...

screens - The wood shelves and screens painted red for port side, and green for starboard, in which a vessel's side lights are carried.
scroll head - The outward curved part of the knee at the upper fore part of the stem, called volute.

A running light allowed on some sailboats instead of the normal bow and stern lights. The tricolor light contains the red and green side lights and the white stern light in a single fitting that is attached to the top of the mast.
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See also: Boat, Port, Light, Chart, Running