Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Aids To Navigation3328
Aids To Navigation3328
Aids To Navigation3328
Fundamentals of
Naval Science
On the Range
Visual Range
13
Buoy Description and Purpose
Nun Buoy
12
Sound Buoys
8 8
✔ Bell
✔ Gong
5
✔ Whistle
✔ Horn
Lighted Buoys
4
Combination Buoys
✔ Any buoy in which a light and a sound
signal are combined
5
✔ Examples include: 4
– Lighted bell
– Lighted gong
– Lighted whistle
– Lighted horn
Buoy Description and Purpose
Buoys are painted different colors
according to their purpose.
or green, or a
combination of the two.
Numbered from seaward, 5
Fl. = Flashing
Hobbs
2
Pepe Pt
10 Rks 4 Fl 6s 54ft 7M
4 6 6
1 12 14 2
Pepe
8 G13 8 10
Island 12 4 Pepe 6
10 14 Fl G 2.5s 14
14 8
16 13 Uncov. Reef 12
14 1m 14
16
16
R14
16
20 16 Fl R 5s
16
Using Buoys and Lights in Piloting
Buoys should never be
used to fix your
position!
Lights and Lighthouses - fixed and
provide for good visual fixing both during
the day and at night.