Coloured circles on map by coast?

[ghostlymoron]

Sorry should have said IALA regional A. Why do the Americas and Japan have to be different? I doubt it will affect me anyhoo.

 

[lpdsn]

For the full directional light experience, try the approaches to Faslane on the Clyde. When going in the direction of buoyage you get a steady white if you are in the centre of the channel, alternating red and white if you stray a little to port, becoming steady red if you stray further. Similarly if you stray the other side you get alternating green and white and then steady green. Something to do with nuclear submarines, apparently.

I would suggest that for the full directional light experience you really need to try somewhere in Scandanavia. Trying going up to Sodertalje or in to Stockholm, or a wee trip round the Aland Islands. (Those are just ones I've done - I'm sure there's more complex routes out there).

 

[knuterikt]

Sorry should have said IALA regional A. Why do the Americas and Japan have to be different? I doubt it will affect me anyhoo.

I give up Norway is also IALA A like the rest of Europe.
You will find lights in Sweden and Norway that don't follow your rules
i guess you could find some in UK also

 

[ghostlymoron]

I guess the safe way is to look at the chart, be it electronic or paper, to see which is the safe zone and the warning zones' colours.

 

[KellysEye]

>Perhaps the lights on Mallorca and Corfu aren't (or weren't) sectored?

None of lights on our charts were sectored, we had charts for the Seychelles, most of Turkey, Greece from the Mount Athos peninsulas down to the Pelopponese, Malta, Corsica and Sardinia, Balearics, Spain, Portugal, UK, Biscay, Canaries, the whole of the Caribbean and the Bahamas. I can only assume that sectored lights only came in after we bought the charts. On our travels we only saw white lights with about 500 night sails.

 

[ghostlymoron]

Kelly, maybe you should get some new charts.

 

[KellysEye]

>Kelly, maybe you should get some new charts.

We never had a problem with the basis info of flashes and dark, the only minor issue is when the lights don't work due to lack of maintenance, there was one on an islet off St Lucia, one in the entrance to Jolly Harbour, Antigua, that you could hit, and many on the Venezuelan out islands. It didn't really matter because you just stayed offshore.