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buoyFloating object used to mark channels for shipping or warn of hazards to navigation. Buoys come in different shapes, such as a pole (spar buoy), cylinder (car buoy), and cone (nun buoy). Light buoys carry a small tower surmounted by a flashing lantern, and bell buoys house a bell, which rings as the buoy moves up and down with the waves. Mooring buoys are heavy and have a ring on top to which a ship can be tied. |
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| The buoyage system has little or nothing to do with port and starboard: rather, most buoys, whether red or green, are midchannel marks. It is hard to believe that someone would use the Texaco charts for navigation given their scale and lack of depths and buoyage (September TechnoTalk). Second, buoyage and charting are limited -- and there's no Coast Guard or TowBoatU. |
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