Woodlouse
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Maybe influence would have been a better word than control.
IALA B Buoyage
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Maybe influence would have been a better word than control.
alant
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Easy to get confused?
A Canadian, was telling me of an experience that he had, whilst driving alongside the shore in Nova Scotia.
The channel alongside the road, had a red buoy to port + a green buoy to starboard, when entering.
He observed a beautiful large yacht, with a NZ flag, in the channel going toward the buoys. The skipper hadn't realised that he was now in IALA B region & piloted the yacht between the red & green. Unfortunately, there was a shoal between them, with both these buoy's - red indicating the starboard side of the left fork & green the port side of the right fork.
Being used to IALA A in NZ, the yacht continued down the middle, grounding heavily, resulting in 200,000$ repair bill!
The Canadian, had tried blowing his car horn, only to have the skipper wave back, thinking it was a welcome/appreciation.
(In retrospect, should have used dot dot dash perhaps)
New buoys now mark the shoal, to assist visitors without local knowledge.
A Canadian, was telling me of an experience that he had, whilst driving alongside the shore in Nova Scotia.
The channel alongside the road, had a red buoy to port + a green buoy to starboard, when entering.
He observed a beautiful large yacht, with a NZ flag, in the channel going toward the buoys. The skipper hadn't realised that he was now in IALA B region & piloted the yacht between the red & green. Unfortunately, there was a shoal between them, with both these buoy's - red indicating the starboard side of the left fork & green the port side of the right fork.
Being used to IALA A in NZ, the yacht continued down the middle, grounding heavily, resulting in 200,000$ repair bill!
The Canadian, had tried blowing his car horn, only to have the skipper wave back, thinking it was a welcome/appreciation.
(In retrospect, should have used dot dot dash perhaps)
New buoys now mark the shoal, to assist visitors without local knowledge.
alan_d
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A Canadian, was telling me of an experience that he had, whilst driving alongside the shore in Nova Scotia.
The channel alongside the road, had a red buoy to port + a green buoy to starboard, when entering.
He observed a beautiful large yacht, with a NZ flag, in the channel going toward the buoys. The skipper hadn't realised that he was now in IALA B region & piloted the yacht between the red & green. Unfortunately, there was a shoal between them, with both these buoy's - red indicating the starboard side of the left fork & green the port side of the right fork.
Being used to IALA A in NZ, the yacht continued down the middle, grounding heavily, resulting in 200,000$ repair bill!
The Canadian, had tried blowing his car horn, only to have the skipper wave back, thinking it was a welcome/appreciation.
(In retrospect, should have used dot dot dash perhaps)
New buoys now mark the shoal, to assist visitors without local knowledge.
You don't need to be used to a different convention to be bamboozled by port and starboard buoys marking a mid-channel obstacle, people often seem to want to pass between them. Ferry Rocks in Kerrera Sound near Oban is an example, and Dunoon Bank was the same, I think, before they changed the lateral marks for E and W cardinals. (Mind you, Dunoon Bank is only a problem if you draw more than 14 metres.)
JayBee
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I have always understood that it's an olde English wine gallon - basically short measure for the colonials.
US pints (8 to the gallon, like ours) are 16, instead of 20 fl ozs.
JayBee
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Entering a marina on Vancouver Island we encountered a white buoy in the middle of the fairway with the legend "KEEP ON RIGHT" in large black letters.
Not knowing whether to keep the buoy on our right side or keep the boat on the right side of the buoy we resorted to the VHF. I can't remember what the answer was, but the marina guys obviously thought we were nuts.
Not knowing whether to keep the buoy on our right side or keep the boat on the right side of the buoy we resorted to the VHF. I can't remember what the answer was, but the marina guys obviously thought we were nuts.
macd
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Which makes as much sense as anything in that cumbersome system: a fluid pound.
Tom Price
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alan_d: "You don't need be used to a different convention to be bamboozled by port and starboard buoys marking a mid-channel obstacle." [/QUOTE said:
evm1024
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History
If I recall correctly you can read about some of the history that went into the differences between systems A and B. As always it is more complex than you might expect.
See:
www.towage-salvage.com/files/IALA.pdf
If I recall correctly you can read about some of the history that went into the differences between systems A and B. As always it is more complex than you might expect.
See:
www.towage-salvage.com/files/IALA.pdf
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