Buoy

Buoy Identification - Aids To Marine Navigation
Aids to navigation found on federal waters, commonly known as buoys or channel markers, are designed, built and maintained by the United States Coast Guard.

Buoy: a floating object employed as an aid to mariners to mark the navigable limits of channels, their fairways, sunken dangers, isolated rocks, telegraph cables, and the like; floating devices fixed in place at sea, ...

Breeches buoy-A circular lifebuoy used in days now past by lifesaving crews to extract persons from wrecked vessels, usually a line is fired from a cannon onto the deck of the wrecked vessel.

BUOY: An anchored float used for marking a position on the water or a hazard or a shoal and for mooring.
BURDENED VESSEL: That vessel which, according to the applicable Navigation Rules, must give way to the privileged vessel.

Buoy: A metal or wooden floating object usually anchored or moored on a dangerous rock or shoal at the entrance of a harbor, or at the edge of a channel, as a guide to navigators.

Buoy - an anchored float marking a position or for use as a mooring
By the Lee - sailing with the wind coming from behind, and slightly to the side, that the sails are on
Can - a kind of navigation buoy ...

Buoy: A marker used for navigation, mooring, or racing around.
Cam Cleat: A mechanical cleat used to hold a line automatically. It uses two spring-loaded cams (teeth) that come together to clamp the line, which is placed between them.

buoy
An anchored floating object that serves as a navigation aid. Also used to mark a mooring spot.
bunks
Long carpeted sections of a boat trailer that support the boat's weight.

Buoy A float, with distinguishing name, shape, color or light.
Burgee Pennant (pointed) shaped flag with design indicating the Yacht Club or personal interest of the vessel's owner.
By the head Greater draft forward than aft.

Buoy
A floating device used as a navigational aid by marking channels, hazards and prohibited areas.
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- Buoy Field Mooring — When a boat is moored to a buoy field, custom mooring lines can be utilized, which have characteristics of both dock lines and anchor lines.

can buoy
A cylindrical buoy painted green and having an odd number used in the United States as a navigational aid. At night they may have a green light.

Mark (buoy): An object the sailing instructions require a boat to pass on a specified side.
Mast: A pole usually going straight up from the deck (height can be tuned for different body weights), used to attach sail and boom.

Hazard Buoy
it is a buoy which marks random hazards such as rocks and shoals
it is white in colour
it has an orange diamond on two opposite sides and two orange horizontal bands, one above and one below the diamond symbols ...

Buoy
A floating iron can moored by a chain on the edge of a shoal to mark a safe channel; buoys are of a great variety of shapes, all of which have a definite meaning to the sailor; some carry bells rung by the motion of the sea, ...

BUOY-A floating object anchored to show position.
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CENTERBOARD-A pivoted board-like device that can be lowered to provide lateral resistance to the water in shoal draft vessels.

Buoy - Any floating marker that is secured in place
Buoy - Floating aid to navigation
Can - Cylinder shaped buoy used for mooring ...

Buoy - A floating object showing navigation channels or marking prohibited areas on the water.
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Capsize - To turn over, bottom side up.

Buoy, Buoyage
An anchored, floating object used in a mooring, as a turning mark in a race course, as an aid to navigation to mark or indicate a channel, and for other purposes.

Iron buoy-sinkers (fig. 10), as used by the London Trinity House Corporation, weigh from 8 to 40 cwt.

The red buoy shown in the far right picture flashes a red light every 2.5 seconds (Fl R 2.5s). This buoy marks the west side of the channel leading from the sea south to Norfolk, VA.
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Using a buoy to raise the bight of an anchor cable to prevent it from chafing on a rough bottom.
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breeches buoy
A device used by lifesaving crews to extract persons from wrecked vessels, usually fired from a cannon onto the deck of the wrecked vessel. (back)
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Waverider Buoy
A floating device used to measure water level variations caused by ocean waves. It is a registered trademark of the Dutch company Datawell.
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Mark: A buoy used to mark the racecourse.
Mast: The vertical spar that holds up the sails.
Mastman: Crew member who hoists sails up the mast.

Approach the buoy in the same direction as the other moored boats are laying, at very slow speed, bring her to a stop and hold her nose in position until your crew has safely made fast.

A unit of length equaling 120 fathoms cam cleat A fitting that has interlocking teeth on springs (cam) instead of prong to secure a rope [Top of Page] [Bottom of Page] can buoy A cylindrical black buoy with a flat top and marked with an ...

can buoyCylindrical navigation buoy with a flat top, generally green in color. capsizeTo flip a boat over. capstanA winch used for hauling heavy objects such as anchors. cast offTo unfasten all lines in preparation for departure.

Anchor buoy - A small buoy secured by a light line to anchor to indicate position of anchor on bottom.
Anchor chain or cable - Chain connecting the ship to the anchor.

Bell Buoy - a large buoy on which a bell is mounted, to be rung by the motion of the waves.
Bight - The double part of a rope when folded, in distinction from the ends; that is, a round, bend, or coil not including the ends; a loop.

buoy: a float moored in water to mark a location, warn of danger, or indicate a navigational channel. by the lee: sailing downwind with the wind blowing over the leeward side of the boat, increasing the possibility of an unexpected jibe.

Bell bouy- A buoy with a bell that sounds when the buoy is moved by the waves.
Below- Part of the boat that is under the deck.
Bend- To fasten by means of a knot.

Catch the Pickup Buoy
Ideally, as the bow reaches the mooring, the crew simply grabs the pickup buoy mast and pulls up the pennant and secures it at the bow cleat.

buoy -- floating marker used for navigation
cabin sole --the bottom surface of the enclosed space under the deck of a boat
canvas -- slang for sail. Originally sails were made of canvas.
catamaran -- twin hulled boat ...

Buoy - floating aid to navigation.
Can - cylinder shaped buoy used for mooring
Capsize - turn upside down or (what increases as your boat gets nicer.)
Cast Iron Genoa- a sail boat's engine
Cavitate- The entry of air into the prop ...

end of a vessel BRIDGE area above the main deck from which the ship is navigated and steered; also, the officer(s) on duty in the command area BULKHEAD nautical equivalent of wall BULWARKS fence-like guard along edge of deck BUNK bed, berth BUOY ...

Can - a type of navigation buoy
canvas -- old slang term for sail. Originally sails were made of canvas.
Cap A piece of trim, usually wood, used to cover and often decorate a portion of the boat, i.e., caprail.

PENNANT (sometimes PENDANT): The line by which a boat is made fast to a mooring buoy.
PERSONAL FLOTATION DEVICE (PFD) - PDF: Official terminology for life jacket. When properly used, the PDF will support a person in the water.

Buoy: An anchored, floating structure that is used as a signal; often indicates the presence of divers, dangers, mooring spots or other things of significance. Often color- or flag coded.

Tanker terminal using a single buoy or fixed structure to fasten the vessel and carry out cargo operations. The ship can swing freely around this point. SMS Safety Management System
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To prevent the anchor from sinking, a buoy, B, is made fast to one corner by a rope, with five or six fathoms of drift. The buoy rope, P, leads on board.

The channel through Masseys Landing from Buoy No. 12 off Bluff Point to Buoy No. 19A;
The Assawoman Canal, in its entirety;
The Indian River Inlet between Buoy No. 1 and the Coast Guard Station; ...

When you are out sailing sometime, and you pass a crab trap buoy, count the seconds until you cannot see the buoy anymore. What did you get? One minute? If you got more than that, it must have been calm out or your boat was not moving.

A maneuver made to get you to your destination or to avoid a buoy or other hazard, for example, is not one that need be signaled to others in sight.

Whenever you see a nearer buoy lining up with a recognizable feature farther away, a smoke stack, or island, or whatever, do not miss the opportunity to trace the sightline on the chart to get a Line of Position (LOP).

Can: A cylindrical buoy, generally green.
Canvas: Firm, closely woven cloth used for sails and awnings; a set of sails; today the word "sailcloth" is generally used for modern sailmaking fabrics such as polyester {Dacron} and nylon.

Shaffer, may help remember the numbering scheme in the IALA "B" system: Demods Buoy numbers DEcrease MOving DownStream. You'll never see a nun 69 Nun (cone-shaped) buoys always have an even number.

Anchored - Held in place in the water by an anchor; included "moored" to a buoy or anchored vessel and "dragging anchor."
At Dock - Secured to a fixed or floating structure; but excludes while being fueled.
Being Towed - In the tow of another vessel.

Mooring - An arrangement for securing a boat to a mooring buoy or a pier.
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Nautical Mile - One minute of latitude; approximately 6076 feet - about 1/8 longer than the statute mile of 5280 feet.

Permanent anchorage. It consists of a heavy weight (or an anchor), a chain of a certain length, and a buoy. Mooring is also often used for piers, instead of pilings.
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A mark is any object that according to the sailing instructions must be passed on a particular side, including the marks which indicate the ends of the starting and finishing lines. The anchor line of a buoy that is a mark (similarly, ...

As to the speed they travel in a strong wind it may be said that in 1912 Germania reached from the East Princessa buoy to the No Man Fort at a speed of 15 knots.

MIDSHIP - Approximately in the location equally distant from the bow and stern.
MOORING - An arrangement for securing a boat to a mooring buoy or a pier.

MOORING - An arrangement for securing a boat to a mooring buoy or a pier.
MOUSE - To put turns of rope yarn round a hook so as to prevent it slipping out from what it is hooked to.

MARLINSPIKE A tool for opening the strands of a rope while splicing. MIDSHIP Approximately in the location equally distant from the bow and stern. MOORING An arrangement for securing a boat to a mooring buoy or a pier.

that the correct relationship between latitude and longitude scales at any point is maintained.
Midship - Approximately in the location equally distant from the bow and stern.
Mooring - An arrangement for securing a boat to a mooring buoy ...

Often used in the bow of larger sailing ships, forward of the anchor windlass and provides a working
platform around the portion of the bowsprit as it attaches to the ship.
Mooring - An arrangement for securing a boat to a mooring buoy or a pier.

BUNKERS - Fuel consumed by the engines of a ship; compartments or tanks in a ship for fuel storage.
BUOY - A floating object marking the navigable limits of channels, sunken dangers, isolated rocks, telegraph cables etc.

Buoy: A floating anchored object used to mark the navigable limits of channels, sunken dangers, isolated rocks, etc.
By the Lee: Sailing downwind with the wind blowing over the leeward side of the boat.
By the Wind: Sailing close-hauled.

MOORING A term applied to the operation of anchoring a vessel in a harbor, securing her to a mooring buoy, or to a wharf or dock by means of chains or ropes. MOORING LINES The chains or ropes used to tie up a ship.

See also: Boat, Point, Line, Wind, Light