Boat and fishing lights
Dropped the daughter off at pre K, went with the wife to the gym, then came home nd started playing boat/fishing stuff.
Started making a submersible green LED light for night fishing. Went to Home Depot and got a couple of fluorescent tube cover/protectors and a can of plastic dip.
Cut the four footer down to two feet, capped one end with the wires hanging out. Stuffed four feet of LED strip lights (about 90 lights) into the tube then dipped the wired end (which was taped to the protector) into the plastic dip. Did this three times, letting it set up for the night.
Tomorrow I'll put a one lb lead ingot inside it, cap it and dip that a few times to seal it up good. Then I'll connect the wires to a length of trailer wiring that I had left over from an earlier project and hook those into a male cigarette lighter assembly, tie a parachute cord to the light, tape it down good and be ready to fish it.
I then took the leftover LED's, green, (28 ft.) and ran them all over the inside of my bass boat and wired them to a switch on the bow. Ready to night fish come this summer.
I'm also planning on getting some more lights for the outside of the boat to make it stand out so I, hopefully, won't get run over at night by some of the crazies on Old Hickory and Percy Priest in the summertime.
Oh, and I made four marker buoys by cutting pieces of foam from an old archery target I no longer use. They are gray, 1 inch thick and not really noticeable from a distance. I'm just trying to keep from advertising any spot I'm fishing.
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