GL: Red Right Returning - NOT! (formerly Chicago to St Louis)

[Charles and Pat Culotta]

 Well it seems from what I read of this message it does fit the red right 
returning rule exactly. It is important to remember that in the ICW home is 
Brownsville Texas and anywhere on the Atlantic or Gulf ICW you are returning 
to Brownsville.
> Oh yes, the US Coast Guard puts those little triangles and squares on the 
> markers.
> Henry

Henry,

You are correct in your assessment.
 We live on the Gulf  ICW, OK just off of it, and have more than 20,000 
miles on it. An easy way to remember where the RED  ATONs are is that the 
RED ones are on the side nearest the MAINLAND and any time you are near the 
MAINLAND  it is dangerous!!!!!!

As stated the exception is at inlets where the ICW shares the waterway with 
the channel in from the sea, . These are all clearly marked on the charts 
and just about all of us have GPS and or LORAN !!!!!!
Having traveled the entire Gulf and Atlantic Intracoastal Waterways it is 
not difficult at all keeping up with the inlets from the sea. Most of them 
are short, particularly when compared  the length of the ICW's.
Some are only a few hundred yards long!!!!!
CCC
Lying hauled out at Geneva, NY for the winter.

CHARLES C., JR. & PAT CULOTTA
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