Choosing the Right Dock Piling Lights for Your Waterfront Property

Proper lighting around your dock is crucial to providing a safe and welcoming environment. Dock piling lights are a popular option to ensure you have the visibility you need to protect yourself, your guests, your dock, and your boat. What’s great about dock lighting is that it also brings beauty to enjoying your dock at night, with multiple styles and materials to complement any marina.

Read on to learn more about how to choose the right fixtures for your dock and some product suggestions from Haven Dock & Marine’s dock lighting collection.

Why Dock Piling Lights Are Important

There are many benefits associated with using piling cap dock lights:

• Protect pilings from impacts
• Illuminate dock area for easier mooring at night or in bad weather
• Provide lighting for increased safety
• Enhance dock appearance
• Increase property value

Some piling caps also help deter birds from landing on pilings, which is a great advantage of adding light fixtures. No one loves the additional dock maintenance of cleaning bird droppings, not to mention they’re pretty unsightly.

If you are shopping for piling lights, you’ll want to ensure product quality and design to ensure a long-lasting product. Check out our high-quality dock lighting designed to withstand a harsh marine environment, including our Benfive™ dock piling cap light available in multicolor.

Features of Dock Piling Lights

Understanding what you want your lighting to do is essential to selecting the correct dock piling lights for your space. For starters, determine the direction, bulb type, and colors that will best serve your dock needs.

Light direction plays a key role. Some fixtures cast the light downwards, which is especially helpful for higher pilings or those over a busy area. Others cast the light horizontally, which is excellent for directional signals that you want to see from far away.

Most piling dock lights use LED bulbs. In addition to white, you can choose fixtures in red, amber, blue, and green. Each color can serve a different purpose. For example, if you want to direct boat traffic, you can use red and green navigational piling lights pointing in the appropriate directions. Amber is a popular color to signify caution or to alert boaters to reduce speeds.

Before making a purchase of your dock lighting, spend a little time considering what features are most important to you and how each one affects performance so you can maximize them!

Fixture Materials

Lights come in a variety of materials, each of which has some advantages. Popular choices include brass, stainless steel, bronze, and aluminum.

Aluminum is one of the most popular choices for marine light fixtures. It is corrosion-resistant, lightweight, and durable. Powder coating provides attractive color choices and additional protection from the elements.

Brass provides a classic nautical look. It ages well and takes on a deeper, richer tone over time. Bronze offers a similar appearance with greater corrosion resistance in marine environments. Both require very little maintenance.

Stainless steel offers a more modern aesthetic. It resists corrosion and is easy to maintain. However, some people may shy away from its more industrial look.

The materials used can impact the durability and performance of your fixture. Haven Dock & Marine fixtures use marine-grade materials to ensure that your new lights stand up to the challenges in a harsh marine environment.

Fixture Style

The availability of various styles of dock piling lights means you have plenty of choices to find one that fits your dock’s aesthetic and brings beauty to your waterfront.

Haven Dock & Marine has a vast collection of high-quality light styles. Here are a few dock lighting styles you can check out that will get you thinking about what you want for your dock:

• BENFIVE™ Round Piling Cap Lights protect pilings and deter birds with several sizes of piling cap lights.
• Lake Lite™ Dot Lights are small and easily installed for immediate safety and installation (available in a 4-pack).
• Lake Lite™ Solar Marine Lights are easy to mount and available in multiple colors.
• Lake Lite™ Solar Pagoda Lights  feature aluminum construction with a white finish and multiple colors of LED lights.
• Broward Casting™ Pagoda Lights are cast aluminum with several attractive finish options, including patina, black, white, rusty iron, and Pompeii gold.

Power Source

Modern light fixtures come with several different power options. If you already have power at the installation site, that makes life easy for powering your lights! However, locations without power will have to consider extending wiring or using non-wired options.

Solar

Solar dock piling lights are an attractive option thanks to their flexibility. With solar, you no longer need to worry about an existing power source or a major renovation to keep your piling lights illuminated. Batteries offer another option for lighting.

Our Lake Light™ piling-mounted lights use solar rechargeable batteries to provide up to 46 hours of light to your dock.

Wired

Our popular BENFIVE™ piling cap lights use a special 12-volt power source to illuminate dock spaces. They feature LED lights, a built-in mounting stand, and rugged housing that makes them perfect for demanding marine environments. They also look incredible, all lit up at night!

Choosing The Right Dock Piling Lights

Armed with information about available styles, colors, materials, and power options, you can begin shopping for new dock lights. The following tips can help you shop for the perfect piling lights for your dock:

• Choose a style and colors that match your dock: Consider how each fixture style will match your dock’s appearance and aesthetic and blend in with existing fixtures.
• Measure existing pilings: Measure the pilings to ensure your chosen fixture will fit. This is especially important if you go with cap-style lights.
• Determine your usage needs: Decide what you want the lights to do. For example, if you want directional lights, fixtures with different colors will be the most helpful.

Considering these factors enables you to confidently select the right dock piling lights to improve your property's safety and appearance.

Shop Haven Dock & Marine for Premium Dock Piling Lights

Dock piling lights improve the safety and appearance of your waterfront property. Consider features such as materials, design, light colors, and the power source to find the right light for your dock. Shop Haven Dock & Marine’s extensive selection of attractive and durable light fixtures to enhance your dock.

Still have questions about what to buy? Let us know! Don’t hesitate to contact us directly with any questions you may have — we love helping our valued customers!