Bright Eyes Portable Marine LED Navigation Safety Bow Lights for Kayak Canoe Dinghy or Yacht | Red and Green | Silicone Rubber Battery Powered and Water-Resistant

This light is a nice solution/addition to my peddle Kayak for those mornings that I am launching before light. I fish in a high boat traffic area of the Puget Sound of Washington State during the Pacific Salmon season. I investigated adding LED strip navigation lighting to my Kayak but the drilling and wiring just seemed over the top after all of the other expenses I incurred getting my Hobie Outback totally fishable. These lights are cost effective and create the light I was looking for...........But, these are not waterproof as many others have stated. Not even close to being water"proof". Bright eyes needs to ammend their description to be water resistant but even that isn't correct. There isn't a water tight seal to the batteries. In fact, the batteries are exposed to moisture by the split line between the hard plastic cap and the battery case. No rubber O-Ring, no gasket, nothing. So, it bothers me this product is advertised as waterproof, which it clearly isin't, when its only use is in a water enviroment.

my husband was looking for an affordable solution to adding night lights to my boat and if I could adapt it to my kayaks, so much the better. Once I spotted these I knew I found the cure! The ends of these cool little lights are actually flexible loops, which allows them to slide onto any pipe from about 5/8 to 1 inch diameter with ease. What I did was take a pair of them and slide them onto about 4" of 1/2" pvc with end caps, creating a portable set of lights I can move from my boat to my yaks in seconds- all I do is slip the band over a standard 4" cleat mounted on the bow of each boat!

So I'm writing this to follow up on a pair of the these rubber wrapped/plastic housing LED "Bright Eyes lights". My initial impression was that they were nice and compact and even came with spare batteries which is a nice touch. After going on a fishing trip with these lights in my fishing bag, my bag got soaked in the rain and sat in my garage for 1 day. When I went to take the lights out of the package and found one of the lights had rust forming on the internal circuit board and was stuck on so I had to remove the battery to turn it off. I noticed that water/condensation was in the "water proof circuit board". I suppose they'd work, not sure if i just got a bad light because the other one held up to the water just fine, just seems like the rear battery cover doesn't seal on very tightly.**update 6/25/18After talking with customer service regarding the issue above, they shipped me at no cost a set of their aluminum housing round style clip on lights, see below for the exact description. These lights are housed in aluminum with a screw on rear cover similar to a mini flashlight with a seal, much more confident in this set and turns out would've only been $4-5 more to get this set to get the quality i was looking for. Upgrading review to 5 stars due to excellent customer follow up experience!"Bright Eyes Green & Red Aluminum Portable Marine LED Boating Lights - Boat Bow or Stern Emergency Backup Safety Lights for Maximum Attention - Waterproof "