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Great memory tool for Cardinal buoys
One of the projects I'm completing this weekend is a review of a book about
navigation. Like most of the US, we don't have many Cardinal buoys here 'bouts, and I have always found the system slightly confusing. Looking at a page with four nice color photos of cardinal buoys........Eureka! I have spotted what appears to be a foolproof system for telling them apart. (This is undoubtedly well known to boaters in areas where cardinal buoys are common, but just in case anybody else who, like myself, is more familiar with the lateral system can benefit- here it is.) You don't have to remember the paint schemes on any of the cardinal buoys with the two cones stacked vertically on top! If the both cones are pointing up, that corresponds to the "up" direction on a compass rose, or North. A north buoy is on the north side of a hazard. If both cones point down, that corresponds to the "down" direction, or South. A south buoy is on the south side of a hazard. Two cones pointing together are a west buoy. The uppermost cone is pointing down, which is what the sun does in the west. A west buoy is on the west side of a hazard. Two cones pointing apart are an east buoy. The uppermost cone is pointing up, which is what the sun does in the east. An east buoy is on the east side of a hazard. Same thing works for the paint schemes, too. Black on top, N. Black on bottom, S. Black rising, east. Black falling, west. Makes it almost as easy a red,right, returning. ("But officer, I was returning to my slip from the cocktail bar") |
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