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Anyone have a fear of running into a Yellow Bouy in the Ocean. Many are more than 40 miles out. Paper Charts that go out that far are not so detailed as a chart plotter. Does this mean that I have to have a chartplotter far out in the ocean if I don't want to hit one of these bouys?
Ok with a chartplotter that is very easy. I look at how fast I am going and estimate when I will be getting close. Keep in mind I am a single handed sailor and I spend days at a time out there. Ever heard of someone running into one of those things?
We have RADAR, AIS reciever, DSC Radio, Chart plotter, moving map software on our laptop . . . honest - have them and use them all, but, we absolutly love to cruise the coast of Maine and there you just have to play the "lobster trap float polka"! No choice.
More than five weeks there this past summer and we only picked up one, and I got it off without using a knife at all. I really really try to avoid costing a lobster person their gear.
And all possible because we try our best to avoid stuff that wants to wrap around our prop.
eyeballs wont help as much at night out on a passage or in thick weather. Sure, you should always watch everything all the time but you really need to figure out where they are, figure out where YOU are and then steer to miss them
The ODAS and other Cautionary buoys shown on chart 530 (NE Pacific area) indicate that they have a light characteristic of either Fl(4) or Fl(5). Many have a PA (position approximate) notation.
I actually find them harder to see in daylight. I go out to the South Brooks buoy quite often.
Not all of them are on the charts... since some of them are often temporary in nature. Most are lit, and should be easily spotted at night, less so in the daytime. I'd point out that none of the lobster/crab pot buoys are lit, and many are painted dark colors that are very difficult to spot in the best of conditions. Spotting a much larger yellow buoy should be chickenfeed by comparison.
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