Lighting up our night life

There is nothing that the Bloke likes more than a little project to get stuck into. He wants Zofia to be a little bit better at the end of every day. In reality this is a bit of a King Canute objective because it's a full time job just maintaining the status quo seeing as the marine environment is so mean and destructive of everything; silently rusting and corroding everything.  So it's a bit more fun when the project is a bit of a lifestyle item.

Left over from the Bloke's solar panel support effort 18 months ago, was a 2m strip of LED lights. Most of the roll was inset on the underside of the support for the solar panels to provide a bit of illumination in the cock-pit in the evenings. The lights came with a controller that even allows the lights to change colour and not just from static white, red, blue, green, yellow, orange or magenta .... but flashing and fading variations of the same. Hollywood! Most of the time the lights are blue. If we need our night vision and a bit of extra light we'll use the red option..... Everything else is frankly, a bit trippy.

In keeping with my 'one day' mentality, I kept the remaining 2 metres waiting for the day when we'd think of a place to use it. Then I saw it on the Jeanneau Owners site. The Bloke gave a nod and said he could "do that no problems"!

One flash and you're ash!

Not at all - this is 12v.

Yup, this is going to work.

The colour depended on which wire was connected. 

We chose blue.

We even had a rocker switch saved from another project on the 'One day' principle.

If it ever gets warm enough to sit top-side after dark,

we'll be able to enjoy this groovy mood lighting in the cockpit.