Hi all,

I am perusing the "Greek waters pilot" by Rod Heikell in
preparation for a possible cruise in the Aegean. The maps of
the harbors' entrances show a Green buoy on starboard and Red
buoy to port.

Is "Green Right Returning" the Med-equivalent of "Red Right
Returning" on this side of the pond?

E-references for navigational rules in the Med anybody?

Thanks
Roberto

BIANCO ROBERTO wrote:
I am perusing the "Greek waters pilot" by Rod Heikell in
preparation for a possible cruise in the Aegean. The maps of
the harbors' entrances show a Green buoy on starboard and Red
buoy to port.

Is "Green Right Returning" the Med-equivalent of "Red Right
Returning" on this side of the pond?

E-references for navigational rules in the Med anybody?

That's exactly right. Most of the rest of the world doesn't use "Red
Right Returning."

Do a google search on the IALA "A" and IALA "B" bouyage systems.

Fresh Breezes- Doug King

Most likely cardinal buoys.

We still use lateral buoys in most of the US Coastal waters.

It's sort of like the English vs. Metric systems situation. :-)

Gould 0738 wrote:
Most likely cardinal buoys.

We still use lateral buoys in most of the US Coastal waters.

It's sort of like the English vs. Metric systems situation. :-)
Nothing to do with cardinal buoys. As has been said, there are two
systems of lateral buoyage; the American system and the rest of the
world. Americans straying out of America need to adjust their world view.

Nay, we need to kick ass and get the rest of the world to square away.

"Steve (another one)" wrote

Americans straying out of America need to adjust their world view.

"Steve (another one)" wrote in message ...


Americans straying out of America need to adjust their world view.

Amen to that. I'm in Singapore today and while I'm used to having to
convert acres to hectares and pints to liters to be basically
understood, it's really a bummer to realize my cell phone is a useless
lump of plastic nearly everywhere and residents of most other
countries can carry workable phones with them on their trips. Somehow
we gotta get with the system....

On 18 Mar 2004 23:19:14 GMT, (BIANCO ROBERTO)
wrote:

Hi all,

I am perusing the "Greek waters pilot" by Rod Heikell in
preparation for a possible cruise in the Aegean. The maps of
the harbors' entrances show a Green buoy on starboard and Red
buoy to port.

Is "Green Right Returning" the Med-equivalent of "Red Right
Returning" on this side of the pond?

Most of the world outside North and South America "return to sea",
while we in the Americas "return to harbour".


E-references for navigational rules in the Med anybody?

Thanks
Roberto

Look for information on the IALA (International Association of
Lighthouse Authorities) Area A and Area B buoyage systems. (Their
motto: If one international standard is good, two must be better! :-)
)


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"Peter Bennett" wrote in message

Most of the world outside North and South America "return to sea",
while we in the Americas "return to harbour".

On Thu, 18 Mar 2004 19:09:28 -0800, Peter Bennett
wrote:



Look for information on the IALA (International Association of
Lighthouse Authorities) Area A and Area B buoyage systems. (Their
motto: If one international standard is good, two must be better! :-)


Up to 1976 there were over 30 different systems.

from IALA

http://www.iala-aism.org/web/pages/p...adrepubli.html

Jack


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USA didn't want to join the rest of the world in a single unified
buoyage system, so a compromise unified buoyage system was
devised which wasn't unified, but was called unified. So in all
the world except the Americas, the lateral system is green to
starboard entering harbour. In the Americas, of course . . .

I guess the states couldn't afford to change their system, so
hoped the rest of the world would change theirs.

Bit like the Japanese and British road systems, driving on the
left. Except we're islands, so it's clear when there's a change,
and the investment to change (as Sweden did) is enormous compared
to the investment of changing a buoyage system.

PS, if you want info on the Greek islands, do email me direct.
I've lived, worked and cruised there for a long time.

jim(dot)baerselman(at)ntlworld(dot)com

Yacht Rapaz, sadly for sale to pay for my lovely Greek house.
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/jim.bae...cification.htm


BIANCO ROBERTO wrote in message
...
Hi all,

I am perusing the "Greek waters pilot" by Rod Heikell in
preparation for a possible cruise in the Aegean. The maps of
the harbors' entrances show a Green buoy on starboard and Red
buoy to port.

Is "Green Right Returning" the Med-equivalent of "Red Right
Returning" on this side of the pond?

E-references for navigational rules in the Med anybody?

Thanks
Roberto