On 2013-07-05 08:50:21 +0100, Martin said:

On Fri, 5 Jul 2013 00:29:07 +0100, Sacha wrote:

On 2013-07-04 23:08:48 +0100, Gary Woods said:

Phil Cook wrote:

To save you from having to recite there is no Red Port wine Left in
the bottle.

And for we river rats, "red right returning" (from or to the sea; I forget
which....so _that's_ how I ran aground!)

Your rules are different in USA, I think? I'm not at all sure about
this but I think that on leaving harbours in USA you leave green buoys
to port, which is not what we would do in UK and then you have Red
Right Returning, as you say. It's an awfully long time since I've
learned any of that and I've never sailed in USA so could be thoroughly
muddled. I hope not! The easiest way of remembering the left/right
thing is that Port and Left have the same number of letters.

You are right.. The USA, Japan, NZ, Korea, Polynesia & Philippines
uses IALA B Buoyage. Europe and the rest of the world uses IALA A
Buoyage
In Europe travelling in the direction of the flood tide green buoys
are on the right hand side of a channel. In the Netherlands you are
expected to remember which way the flood tide flowed before they built
all those dams/dykes.

Red to red, green to green
Shut your eyes and pass between.
Art of Course Sailing

Oh good! At least I'm not sending Gary onto the rocks!
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Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.com
South Devon
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