Each week, Bateaux.com offers you a question about the boat license. To validate your skills or even to discover unexplored areas. This week, we tackle the question of channel buoys.
What is this conical buoy?
Although we see the buoy against the light, making it difficult to determine its color, the conical shape of the buoy tells you its function. It is indeed a green conical buoy, a starboard side marker that marks a channel.
In the conventional sense (IALA buoyage region A Everyone except America and the Caribbean), that is, if we consider a boat coming from the open sea and heading towards the coast (our case in our example), the starboard marks are those that should be left on the right hand side of the navigator who is looking towards the front of his boat, on the starboard side of his boat.
The characteristics of a starboard side mark are:
- Green color
- Conical shape or with a green triangular light pointing upwards
- Light (if any) green of any rhythm
This buoy marks the entrance channel to the harbor. Indeed, another buoy (red this time) is present a little further indicating the pass between the two to reach the port safely.
