16 hours ago, justgary said:

My personal take on docking and other lights is that you end up blinding yourself and everyone near you with reflections or direct glare.  A handheld spotlight is your best bet for navigating a channel and trying to see the buoys, etc.  Turn the beam on (above the windshield), spot the marker, turn the beam off.  No real need to continuously sweep the area with a beam in most cases.  The more time you keep the big lights off, the better your eyes are at actually seeing things.

And don't put the spot directly on another boat if you can see his nav lights.  You'll blind him and make him want to hunt you down.

I have a 12v Stanley spotlight that’s collecting dust in the garage that I’ll bring next time we go to dinner on the lake and see how that goes

15 hours ago, ahopkins22LSV said:

Docking lights are very useful around docks but worthless in open water. If your purpose of adding them is to use around docks and trailering at night then they are worth every penny imo. 

More docking than trailering (today), my slip is pretty challenging when there’s wind and a current, it’s a tight shared slip i need to turn right into while current and wind push me off to the other side of a narrow marina, I’m pulling up starboard on a sharp 90 degree angle which during the day is fine, last thing i need is to do it blind with another boat there

if i do the oem blue maybe it’ll be more cost effective to do docking as well at the same time

One of my "Barefooter" decals got nicked and ripped. I just found that Domed Numbers has them for sale. I've seen the gold colored one, but they have the silver/black one too.

This might help (a little bit):

What type of lift does he have now? 

8 hours ago, teamerickson said:

I'm not seeing that?

I don't see that either on the dealer finder.

In California  our present options are Salinas,Atascadero, Madera, Redding,San Diego and the old factory in Merced.

 This will be interesting to see how it shakes out over the summer.  Personally, I have had 5 Malibu boats....

and I miss Boat Country.