Hello
I guess I have to put things right:
I'm NOT prepairing for LongPac or TransPac. - not yet - but it would be nice to be there for TransPac 2016 or later. At the moment I'm just prepairing for a world-cruising.
I do not care much for the strobe which might be even "just a flashing anchorlight". It simply comes with this type of lamp and might be helpful someday.
All I'm looking for, is a Tricolor with anchorlight for my CARINA, a Carter 30, to be used on long ocean-passages and hundreds of nights in beautiful anchorages. It has to draw as less power as possible, has to be reliable and should meet the regulations. To find a less expensive one, would leave some money for other things I still want to put on.
For very special rules of some countries I still have my bow- and sternlights wich meet the COLREG and the German BSH and surely the rules of most countries in the world and I can always use those if required.
It looks like there are not many kinds of LED-Tricolots available. All I could find, was the Aquasignal, Lopolight, Orca and Optolamp. All at pretty much same price apart from the cheaper Optolamp. BTW it was chosen for the "Vendeeglobe", "Minitransat" and other races, which makes me think it meets at least the COLREGS.
Erika
SY CARINA