Buoys anyone

[powerskipper]

 

[benjenbav]

What does the white one with stripes, third from right on the front row signify?

 

[powerskipper]

I am told a transit.

 

[TimBennet]

What does the white one with stripes, third from right on the front row signify?

Third from right? Front row? <<Doh! Just seen I'm being thick!>>

Anyway, the red and white ones over on the left are safe water marks. Traditionally used off the entrance to complex harbours. Most have gone because GPS gets you into position to start the approach, but in the olden days, looking for the fairway buoy was the first step, and as you often had to zigzag around to find it at night or in the fog, they put it somewhere where there was safe water all round. Some places still have one like Wells in Norfolk.

 

[jimmy_the_builder]

I am told a transit.

very good!

 

[Robert Wilson]

As Mike Peyton penned:- "I suppose this is where they magnetise them?"................

 

[tico]

Caption..... 'Hello buoys!'

 

[mad_boater]

Caption..... 'Hello buoys!'

Rolf Harris might be interested

 

[macnorton]

I am told a transit.

I thought trans-port-er.

 

[macnorton]

Rolf Harris might be interested

He is otherwise occupied so he sent Cliff!

 

[mad_boater]

He is otherwise occupied so he sent Cliff!

Reminds me of that well known poem

Big fat men two pounds ten little boys a shilling

You remember it surely ?

 

[Vallich]

Third from right? Front row? <<Doh! Just seen I'm being thick!>>

Anyway, the red and white ones over on the left are safe water marks. Traditionally used off the entrance to complex harbours. Most have gone because GPS gets you into position to start the approach, but in the olden days, looking for the fairway buoy was the first step, and as you often had to zigzag around to find it at night or in the fog, they put it somewhere where there was safe water all round. Some places still have one like Wells in Norfolk.

One at the entrance to Conwy harbour. Well, I think it must still be there - it's been a couple o' years since I was in that neck-of-the-sea...