"Ellen MacArthur" wrote in message
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Not bullocks! The IALA simply recognises the difference.
IALA region B covers only the Americas, Japan, S.Korea and the
Phillipines
and in region B the lateral buoyage system is different to all the rest
of
the world which is region A.

Good wiggle there, Edgar. First you said the USA didn't sign up for
the IALA.
But they did. So you were wrong. Then you admit the US is a signatory of
the IALA
but they use IALA-B along with half the world. Tell me Edgar what makes
IALA-A
better than IALA-B? Seems to me they are both equally correct because
they are
both sanctioned by the same treaty.
It's the same as Yanks saying Brits drive on the *wrong* side of the
road. No, it's
not the wrong side. It's just an opposite side as we drive on. Both are
equally lawful
and acceptable.... You can't look down your nose and say one is stupid and
the other
is smart.


I did not say it was stupid or unlawful but I think it is regrettable that
the USA did not comply because the other countries in 'B' would then have
had to follow suit and we would have had one uniform worldwide system.
So I think that IALA, needing to publish something that would be studied by
mariners worldwide, had no option but to create a 'B' category because
obviously their publication could not leave USA out.