T&T: IALA Buoys Region A & B

[Peter Bennett]

As Mike said - you should always check the chart to see why the aid is
there - sometimes even the bouyage authorities aren't sure what aid to
use.

There was a situation here with a small marina in a bay on the
starboard side of Howe Sound.  There is a rock they wanted to mark on
the port side of the bay, so they put in a port hand daymark.  After
thinking about it for a bit, they decided that it was on the starboard
side of Howe Sound, and the deep-sea ships going up to Squamish might
get confused seeing the port hand mark on their starboard, so changed
it to a starboard hand mark.  They thought about this for another
month, then decided the mark was so close to shore the ships wouldn't
notice it, and only the users of the marina would care.  Since it was
on their port side, the mark was changed back to port, and has
remained that way, even though the marina no longer exists.

Saturday, January 5, 2008, 9:50:00 AM, Jonathan wrote:

JDT> At 12:11 PM 1/5/2008, Mike Maurice wrote:
>>. . .  there does not appear to be any requirement in the IALA
>>specs as to the manner of numbering buoys and Lateral Marks. In the US
>>red buoys are numbered with even numbers and green with odd.

JDT> This leads to another question that I have never had fully 
JDT> resolved.  In US waters we are generally taught to adhere to the 
JDT> "three R" rule -- Red, RIght, Returning.  However this does not help 
JDT> for thorofares and other passages between bodies of water where 

JDT> Jon Taft

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