One thing we always did before getting underway, each day, was to cut
up a number of pieces of masking tape to resemble pointers with a tab.
As we passed each buoy/marker we'd move the tape to the next expected
marker, placed, pointing to the direction we were to go to the next
buoy/marker, in line.
It tended to keep you on track and made you read and compare the numbers.

otn

Rosalie B. wrote:
(LaBomba182) wrote:


Subject: Intra-coastal waterway navigation
From: "Len Krauss"

You will find ICW yellow triangles on green square daymarks, buoys and
navaids with green lights. Similarly, you will yellow squares on red
triangular daymarks, buoys and navaids with with red lights.

You might want to rethink that.

"A quick and easy way to determine which is the ICW, and which is not, is that
all ICW markers have reflective yellow triangles on the red markers and yellow
squares on the green markers."

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What he was trying to say is that if the markers in question are river
or harbor markers, and not primarily ICW markers, then the red may be
on the ocean side instead of the land side of the boat. In that case
the red would have a yellow square on it.

For instance - going down (south) the Pungo River from the Alligator
Pungo canal, the red will be on your port where the green markers
would be for the ICW. So the red markers will have yellow squares and
the green markers will have yellow triangles.

That's also how you can tell if you've gotten off the ICW by mistake
as happened to us around Ponce inlet. Bob headed toward the
lighthouse, and missed the turn to go around the delta area. He
shortly noticed that not only were we not on the computer track, but
the ATONs didn't have the yellow ICW marks. I think we could have
gone through the way we were going, but we turned around and went
back.

grandma Rosalie