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10 Aids To Navigation

This document provides information about buoy labels, sounds, lights, and daybeacons used for navigation. It states that port hand buoys have odd numbers that increase moving seaward, while starboard buoys have even numbers. Buoys can be fitted with bells, gongs, whistles or electronic horns to indicate their location. Lights on buoys use specific color patterns and flash characteristics to identify their purpose. Daybeacons include lighted or unlighted beacons and daymarks shaped and colored to signify port or starboard lateral marks or other navigational features. The Intracoastal Waterway uses buoys and marks with yellow stripes or shapes to indicate the port or star

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10 Aids To Navigation

This document provides information about buoy labels, sounds, lights, and daybeacons used for navigation. It states that port hand buoys have odd numbers that increase moving seaward, while starboard buoys have even numbers. Buoys can be fitted with bells, gongs, whistles or electronic horns to indicate their location. Lights on buoys use specific color patterns and flash characteristics to identify their purpose. Daybeacons include lighted or unlighted beacons and daymarks shaped and colored to signify port or starboard lateral marks or other navigational features. The Intracoastal Waterway uses buoys and marks with yellow stripes or shapes to indicate the port or star

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Navigation

NAU 102
Lesson 10
Buoy Labels
Buoys may be numbered or lettered for
ease of identification.
Port hand buoys = odd numbers
Starboard buoys = even numbers

“Even Red Nuns have Odd Green Cans”

Numbers increase from seaward.


Buoy Labels
Buoy Labels

All other buoys may be lettered.

E.g. “CBJ” = Chesapeake Bay Junction


Buoy Sounds

Buoys may be fitted with sound devices.

Bells – one tone, caused by buoy movement.

Gongs – multiple tones, caused by buoy


movement.
Buoy Sounds

Whistle – moaning sound, caused by buoy


movement.

Horn – electronic tone.

In calm seas, might not hear bell, gong or


whistle buoys.
Buoy Lights
Optional equipment for buoys.

Color and Phase Characteristics are important.

Color: Lateral Marks - Red or Green


Special Marks - Yellow
All Other Marks - White
Buoy Lights

Phase Characteristics

Pattern of alternating flashes and eclipses


(dark periods)

Enables identification of specific marks in


the dark.
See table 506 in Bowditch.
Buoy Lights
Port & Starboard Lateral Marks
Any phase characteristic other than
Comp. GpFl (2+1)
Buoy Lights
Junction & Bifurcation Marks
Comp. GpFl (2+1)
Buoy Lights
Safe Water Marks
Buoy Lights
Isolated Danger Marks
Buoy Lights
Special Marks
Buoy Lights

Cardinal Marks
Beacons

Fixed Marks
Mounted ashore or in shallow water

Lighted Beacon = “Light”


No light = “Daybeacon”

“Daymark” – the sign or structure


enabling identification by day
Beacons

Daymark
Day Beacons

Shape & Color have meaning


(IALA – B)
Green to port. Red to starboard.
Squares to port. Triangles to
starboard.
Day Beacons

Safewater Special

Isolated Danger
Red & Black
Diamond
Intracoastal Waterway

Buoys & Daymarks


with yellow stripes.
1
Used only on ICW
Intracoastal Waterway
Buoys & Daymarks
with yellow shapes.

1 Indicate dual use


Yellow rectangle or
square = port side
of ICW
Yellow triangle = starboard side of
ICW
Intracoastal Waterway
Introduction to Navigation

Questions?

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