Each week Bateaux.com will propose you a question about the boat license. To validate your skills or even to discover unexplored areas. This week, we are tackling the question of beacons.
Shall I leave this buoy to port or starboard?
Observers will notice that it is a cardinal buoy (yellow and black color) and more particularly an East cardinal (point of the triangles directed up and down). The cardinals are used to mark dangers (rocks, shoals, wrecks...). It is better to be wary if you navigate in the area.
To remember where to go, you just have to remember that facing an East cardinal, you go to the East. The same goes for the other cardinal points.
So in our situation to pass to the East of the cardinal, we will take the solution B by leaving the buoy on our port side, forgetting the danger in our West, protected that we will be by the cardinal.
