.. wrote:
On Fri, 05 Sep 2003 21:43:47 GMT, otnmbrd
wrote:



I may be missing something here, but not sure I agree fully with the above.
Let's say you're running down (north to south) the Jersey shore in
between inlets, and you come across a red buoy (BG there may be one
along here someplace, if memory serves) ....


It *is* true that the East Coast shore faces generally "east", but not
all East Coast "shores" face due East. Some face due North or South.

Nothing to do with what I'm saying. I apologize, if not all shorelines
face due East .... you will just have to learn to interpolate the
"southerly and westerly" directions.



You would keep that to stbd
as you proceeded southbound.
Now, admittedly, the danger it was marking may be close aboard and leave
you room to pass inshore (draft considerations), but that fact would
only come from checking the chart, so again, heading southerly,
offshore, you see a red buoy, keep it to stbd, along the Atlantic coastline.


And hope that the next red buoy, which is to your port side, is seen
so that you can alter course to the East and avoid the "wall" running
from Northwest to Southeast.

Look at the chart.

OK, let me try this again. You are heading southbound along the Jersey
Shore, and you are offshore between inlets. You run across a great big
old Nun buoy, sitting out there on it's lonesome (no channel
around)....what side do you take it on?
You take it on your stbd side. It is marking a hazard.... check your
chart, but leave it on your stbd hand.
On the Atlantic seaboard, you are coming from sea, when you are heading
in a southerly and/or westerly direction where buoy recognition is
concerned.
In the Gulf, it's south to north, east to west, and on the Pacific,
south to north, west to east.


otn