"Edgar" wrote
the IALA system of buoyage was introduced internationally.
The USA did not sign up to this so all your channel buoys are opposite
hand
to the rest of the world and AFAIK you do not use the same cardinal
light
system to mark offshore obstructions that are familiar elsewhere. :-(



More bullocks! The USA uses the IALA system of buoyage. Here's
proof:
http://www.sailingusa.info/basic_navigation.htm

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.

Cheers,
Ellen