BEACON: A lighted or unlighted fixed aid to navigation attached directly to the earth's surface. (Lights and day beacons both constitute "beacons.")
BEAM: The width of the boat at its widest point, usually the middle ...
DAYBEACON: A fixed navigation aid structure used in shallow waters upon which is placed one or more daymarks.
Beacon- A light, or other naviga-tion aid, usually on land, to warn boats of danger or obstruction.
Beam-The width of a boat at its widest point.
Beam sea- Waves running at right angles to the boat's corse.
Beacon Aid to navigation, lighted or unlighted, radio or racon, set on the shore or rocks.
Beam 1) Extreme width of a vessel. 2) Athwartships timber on which the deck is laid.
beacon - A stake, boom, or post put on a sandbank or shoal as a warning for vessels.
beacon buoy - A buoy with a cross, ball, or triangle, &c., on the top.
Beacon:
A lighted or unlighted fixed (non:floating) aid to navigation that serves as a signal or indication for guidance or warning. (Lights and daybeacons both constitute "beacons.") ...
daybeacon, daymark - A navigational aid visible during the day. In the United States and Canada, ...
radio beacon
A navigational aid that emits radio waves for navigational purposes. The radio beacon's position is known and the direction of the radiobeacon can be determined by using a radio direction finder.
radio bearing ...
Range Beacons:
A set of at least two markers placed a distance apart at various intervals permanently installed to form a transit and used to indicatea recommended track through dangerous or narrow waters.
Beacon
Anything that serves as a signal or indication for guidance or warning. A fixed (non-floating) aid to navigation.
Beam ...
daybeacon, beacon, daymark
A stake driven into the bottom at the edge of a channel and displaying a placard (daymark) with identifying numbers and colors. It takes the place of a buoy as an aid to navigation in very shallow water.
daysail ...
Day Beacon - Unlighted fixed aid to navigation
Driving a Boat While Intoxicated - DBWI
Dead Reckoning - Determining your position by distance and course run ...
This red beacon with the can-shaped topmark is passed on your port side to stay clear of a rocky area called "The Dangers" when entering Glandore Harbor, Ireland.
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BUOYS AND BEACONS.
In approaching channels from seaward red buoys marked with even numbers will be found on the starboard side of the channel and must be left on the starboard side in passing in.
Daybeacon - A fixed navigation aid structure, visible during the day, used in shallow waters upon which is placed one or more daymarks.
BEACON - A marked post located on a shoal or bank to warn vessels of danger or to mark a channel. A signal mark on land; a light or radio signal.
BEAM - The extreme width of a vessel. A horizontal athwartship support for the deck. ...
Daybeacon - An unlighted fixed structure which is equipped with a dayboard for daytime identification.
RACON RAdar beaCONs
Radar signature of beacons and buoys for easy identification on the radar PPI. Most of them work on 3 and 10 cm, and if not they cannot be detected.
Aid to navigation Any fixed object that a navigator may use to find his position, such as permanent land or sea markers, buoys, radio beacons, and lighthouses. Anchor locker A locker used to store the anchor rode and anchor.
sheaves or blocks attached on the ends, projected over a vessels sides or stern, and used to hoist up a dinghy or small boat Davy Jone's Locker The bottom of the sea daymark The colored and numbered or lettered sign placed on many beacons to ...
Day Beacon -unlighted fixed aid to navigation.
Dead reckoning - Determining your position by distance and course run
Displacement Hull - boat meant to move through the water,
not skim over it.
"Navigable channel" shall mean a channel plotted on a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration nautical chart or a channel marked with buoys, lights, beacons, ranges, or other markers by the Coast Guard or with Coast Guard approval.
daymark: the colored and numbered or lettered sign placed on many beacons to identify them. Most daymarks are coated with reflective material to make them visible in a searchlight beam at night.
EPIRB: Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacon. There are two types of beacon. One is a transmitter that all commercial vessels are required to have on board. Pleasure crafts are recommended to carry one.
EPIRBAcronym for emergency positioning indicating radio beacon. When this electronic device is activated it transmits a radio signal with user registration data and positioning information to a network of satellites that assist the Coast Guard in ...
A lifeboat should include an emergency position-indicating rescue beacon, a parasail-type sea-anchor, signaling equipment, medical supplies, food, clothing, shelter and water for at least three days.
differential GPS (DGPS)A highly accurate global positioning system (GPS) that utilizes a differential radio beacon and receiver to compute and correct the error of all visible satellites sending data to a conventional GPS unit.
EPIRB
Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacon. An emergency device that uses a radio signal to alert satellites or passing airplanes to a vessel's position.
Equator
An imaginary line around the center of the world at Latitude 0°.
Emergency Position Indication Radio Beacon. Radio signaling aid that allows the transmission of emergency position calls
equator
An imaginary line around the center of the world at 0° of latitude.
Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacon. A radio device that uses radio frequencies monitored by aircraft, or satellites or both. It is mandatory equipment on racing yachts. EVEN KEEL -.
even keel ...
Lights: Lighthouses or beacons; fixed aids to navigation that are equipped with light sources having certain prescribed characteristics.
7 Submarine identification light (intermittant flashing amber beacon--three flashes, one per second, floowed by three-second off period)
sec. 707.8 Special operations lights (revolving beam colored red, green, or amber)
sec. 707.
EP: Estimated Position, a value plotted on a map or chart in temporal intervals
EPIRB: Emergency Position Indication Radio Beacon. Radio signaling aid that allows the transmission of emergency position calls ...
ELECTRONIC NAVIGATION- Use of echo sounders, radio, and various electronic satellite and land based position finders (GPS) to determine a boat's location.
EPIRB- Emergeny Position Indicating Radio Beacon-Emergency device that uses a radio ...
(m) the radiotelephone alarm signal;
(n) signals transmitted by emergency position-indicating radio beacons;
(o) approved signals transmitted by radiocommunication systems, including survival craft radar transponders.
In English Bay there is a lighthouse at Point Atkinson, buoys to mark the beaches, fixed markers for the low tide shoals at Spanish Banks and solar powered flashing beacons at the mouth of False Creek with red right returning and green to port.
 See also: Boat, Navigation, Light, Line, Point
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