With a chart plotter and radar entering an uncomplicated port or harbour at night is not a problem. Where it gets tough is when there are "local Knowledge" things that you are not aware of. Entering small bays and anchorages can be challenging but plotters have made it less so. I try and time my arrivals for daylight but would enter most places after dark if neccessary. A good coast pilot or local guide book is a huge asset in most cases.
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There is a tide in the affairs of men,
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
Shakespeare, Julius Caesar IV, iii, 217
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