Who remembers.......

[capnsensible]

.......... when Starboard marks were black and wreck buoys were green?

:ambivalence:


(before 1977)

 

[FullCircle]

.......... when Starboard marks were black and wreck buoys were green?

:ambivalence:


(before 1977)

Blimey, are you inferring that it has changed?

 

[johnalison]

It's what at least one of my charts shows.

 

[tcm]

Blimey, are you inferring that it has changed?

You're inferring, he's implying

 

[Seajet]

I seem to remember that was the case when I started around 1970 - no idea when it changed but I think I remember a couple of green wreck buoys roughly then ?

 

[Joker]

Red & green are the worst possible choices, given that 1 in 12 men are red/green colour blind. I've had a couple of crew who were colour blind; it was a bit difficult asking them to watch the sectored light.

 

[Serin]

Or when windward gave way to leeward, irrespective of tack?

 

[FullCircle]

You're inferring, he's implying

add another ribbon to your pedantry medal.

 

[Scotty_Tradewind]

confused or what when I was confronted with these this summer.
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=p...oTCM6JwJzfiskCFccIGgodDVYDMg&biw=1254&bih=459

Had to get out the almanac quick to remind me!

S.

 

[macd]

add another ribbon to your pedantry medal.

...and take one off yours for your precision medal. Un-

 

[snowleopard]

I remember red/black laterals and green wrecks but it was a very long time ago. More recently, i.e. < 10 years ago, I did see a black buoy in the Camel estuary between Padstow and Wadebridge.

 

[VicS]

Or when windward gave way to leeward, irrespective of tack?

When did that change ?

 

[Serin]

When did that change ?

I can't really remember. It was the case when I first started dinghy sailing and that was a very long time ago.

 

[TSB240]

.......... when Starboard marks were black and wreck buoys were green?

:ambivalence:


(before 1977)

Used to race around this one before they put it in the Pub Garden......

 

[AndrewB]

So, can any other sad old fart remember even further back when ...

- Starboard hand buoys were conical with a solid colour, either red or black, mounted with a staff and globe;
- Port hand buoys were cylindrical and bi-coloured, vertically striped white with either red or black, mounted with a staff and cage;
- Wreck buoys were green with the word WRECK in white.

(Buoys in use until the early 1950's, until replaced by the red=port, black=starboard system. We shared this with Belgium.)

P.S. Does anyone also remember the experimental red-and-black cardinal buoy system that was briefly trialled in the Thames Estuary, ahead of the IALA agreement? Much more easily identified than the cardinal buoys we now have.

The present system (IALA - A) was adopted in 1980, and introduced in the UK over approximately three years, working around the coast. All our charts had to be replaced, an expensive time.

 

[johnalison]

The black buoys showed up far better than greens, which can all but disappear in some lights, even to people like me with normal colour vision. Luckily, Decca and GPS appeared to rescue us from confusion.

 

[Porthandbuoy]

It's what at least one of my charts shows.

You have colour charts?

 

[johnalison]

You have colour charts?

No, just a murky grey and white, and depths in fathoms of course.

 

[Uricanejack]

It was before my time pre IALA. All UK had changed over when I started sailing.
Though I had been out in boats.
I don't think they had any on Bingham's Pond.
The current IALA system A & B was agreed November 1980. It took a year or two to implement.

 

[LittleShip]

I thought it was introduced when the "1972 international prevention of collision at sea act" was adopted. My sailing career has always been under those regs.

The joys of being young.
Tom.