Navigation Lights Cockpit Card, COLREGs Lights and Shapes PDF
A cluster of lights on a black horizon becomes a vessel, her heading and her problem, in one look down at the card.
Face one, the system: the 225, 112.5 and 135 degree arcs diagram, the full Rule 22 ranges table, power and sail rigs including tricolour and red over green, small craft allowances, and aspect chips showing what you actually see
Face two, the gallery: fourteen night scene panels covering anchor, aground, not under command, restricted in ability to manoeuvre, constrained by draught, trawling and fishing, towing and pushing, pilot, dredger, mine clearance, divers and hovercraft
Day shapes beside the lights they replace, plus the classic mnemonics where they exist: red over red, green over white, white over red
Every panel drawn as a real night scene with glowing lights on a silhouette, official plate logic with chartroom charm
Print double sided, laminate for the night watch; A4 and US Letter editions included
Lights questions decide exams and, more to the point, decide what you do next on a dark bridge. This card puts the whole system on one face, how the arcs carve the horizon and what each aspect shows you, and every special vessel on the other.
Checked line by line against COLREGs Rules 20 to 31 as amended, including the small craft allowances people misremember.
What's inside
Cover with lamination guide and night crossing artwork
Card face 1: arcs, ranges, aspects and the basic light rigs
Card face 2: the special vessels gallery with day shapes and mnemonics
Combined pack PDF plus individual sheet PDFs, each in A4 and US Letter
Who it's for: Night watchkeepers, Day Skipper to Yachtmaster and OOW candidates, and anyone who has stared at a cluster of lights wondering what is coming at them.
Licence: Personal and classroom use. You may share and repost this content, including commercially. You may not resell the files themselves or sell them on as a standalone product. Copyright remains with Maritime Master Limited.
Printing: Print at 100% double sided and laminate. The night panels are ink rich by design: print colour for the full effect.
