Chapter 5 Your Highway Signs Boating Skills And
Chapter 5 Your “Highway” Signs Boating Skills And Seamanship Copyright 2014 - Coast Guard Auxiliary Association, Inc. 14 th ed. 1
Chapter 5 Your “Highway” Signs Boating Skills And Seamanship Copyright 2014 - Coast Guard Auxiliary Association, Inc. 14 th ed. 2
Lesson Objectives Boating Skills And Seamanship • • • Aids to Navigation (ATONS) Cautions in using ATONS Meaning of charts symbols Availability of electronic ATONS Reference materials – changes in ATONS Copyright 2014 - Coast Guard Auxiliary Association, Inc. 14 th ed. 3
Buoyage System Boating Skills And Seamanship • There are 4 Buoyage Systems in US • US ATON System • Intracoastal Waterway System • Western Rivers System • Private Aids to Navigation – PATONS Copyright 2014 - Coast Guard Auxiliary Association, Inc. 14 th ed. 4
US Direction of Bouyage Boating Skills And Seamanship • Red, Right, Returning • Returning from sea! • Clockwise around U. S. • Numbering system Copyright 2014 - Coast Guard Auxiliary Association, Inc. 14 th ed. 5
US ATON System Boating Skills And Seamanship Copyright 2014 - Coast Guard Auxiliary Association, Inc. 14 th ed. 6
US ATON System Boating Skills And Seamanship Copyright 2014 - Coast Guard Auxiliary Association, Inc. 14 th ed. 7
US ATON Lateral System Boating Skills And Seamanship Made up of Shapes, Colors, Alpha Numeric, and Lights Copyright 2014 - Coast Guard Auxiliary Association, Inc. 14 th ed. 8
ATON Channels Boating Skills And Seamanship INTRACOASTAL WATERWAY Copyright 2014 - Coast Guard Auxiliary Association, Inc. 14 th ed. 9
ATONS Boating Skills And Seamanship • • • Help determine a safe course Help determine where you are Help navigate to reach destination Are shown on chart Any object visible from the water Copyright 2014 - Coast Guard Auxiliary Association, Inc. 14 th ed. 10
ATONS Boating Skills And Seamanship • Short Range • Buoys • Day beacons • Lights • Major lights • Directional or sector lights • Ranges • Racons • Sound Signals Copyright 2014 - Coast Guard Auxiliary Association, Inc. 14 th ed. 11
ATONS Boating Skills And Seamanship • Anything visible from the water • • • Towers and smokestacks (usually lighted) Monuments Bridges Distinctive land formations Buildings • Objects must appear on chart to take accurate fixes Copyright 2014 - Coast Guard Auxiliary Association, Inc. 14 th ed. 12
ATONS Boating Skills And Seamanship • ATONS are protected by law • Do not: • • • Alter Destroy Move Tie up to Climb on Obscure others view Copyright 2014 - Coast Guard Auxiliary Association, Inc. 14 th ed. 13
Isolated Danger Boating Skills And Seamanship Copyright 2014 - Coast Guard Auxiliary Association, Inc. 14 th ed. 14
Safe Water Boating Skills And Seamanship Copyright 2014 - Coast Guard Auxiliary Association, Inc. 14 th ed. 15
Special Marks Boating Skills And Seamanship Copyright 2014 - Coast Guard Auxiliary Association, Inc. 14 th ed. 16
Information and Regulatory Boating Skills And Seamanship Copyright 2014 - Coast Guard Auxiliary Association, Inc. 14 th ed. 17
Mooring Buoy Boating Skills And Seamanship Copyright 2014 - Coast Guard Auxiliary Association, Inc. 14 th ed. 18
Student Activity Boating Skills And Seamanship • • 1 2 3 What are types of ATONS? CANS NUNS Preferred Channel Marker Safe Water Marker Copyright 2014 - Coast Guard Auxiliary Association, Inc. 14 th ed. 19
Uniform State Waterway Marking System Boating Skills And Seamanship • Merged with US ATON system in 2003 Copyright 2014 - Coast Guard Auxiliary Association, Inc. 14 th ed. 20
Waterway Marks/Buoys Boating Skills And Seamanship • Characteristics Reprinted with permission from The Weekend Navigator by Bob Sweet Copyright 2014 - Coast Guard Auxiliary Association, Inc. 14 th ed. 21
Waterway Marks / Pillar Buoys Boating Skills And Seamanship Copyright 2014 - Coast Guard Auxiliary Association, Inc. 14 th ed. 22
Waterway Marks / Spherical Buoy Boating Skills And Seamanship Copyright 2014 - Coast Guard Auxiliary Association, Inc. 14 th ed. 23
Waterway Marks/Nun & Can Buoy Boating Skills And Seamanship Copyright 2014 - Coast Guard Auxiliary Association, Inc. 14 th ed. 24
Waterway Marks/Cautions Boating Skills And Seamanship • • Watch circle Position Approximate - PA Light and acoustics may fail Off station due to drifting Copyright 2014 - Coast Guard Auxiliary Association, Inc. 14 th ed. 25
Waterway Marks/Day Beacons Boating Skills And Seamanship • Daymarks • Day beacon Copyright 2014 - Coast Guard Auxiliary Association, Inc. 14 th ed. 26
Waterway Marks Boating Skills And Seamanship • Triangular Daymark • Square Daymark Copyright 2014 - Coast Guard Auxiliary Association, Inc. 14 th ed. 27
Waterway Marks Boating Skills And Seamanship • Diamond shaped day marks • Location Only Copyright 2014 - Coast Guard Auxiliary Association, Inc. 14 th ed. 28
Waterway Marks Boating Skills And Seamanship • Safe Water ATONS Copyright 2014 - Coast Guard Auxiliary Association, Inc. 14 th ed. 29
Waterway Marks Boating Skills And Seamanship • Preferred Channel Mark Copyright 2014 - Coast Guard Auxiliary Association, Inc. 14 th ed. 30
Waterway Marks Boating Skills And Seamanship • Light structures Copyright 2014 - Coast Guard Auxiliary Association, Inc. 14 th ed. 31
Waterway Marks Boating Skills And Seamanship • Ranges – – Pair of ATONS Rear ATON higher Determines center of channel May be lighted or not Copyright 2014 - Coast Guard Auxiliary Association, Inc. 14 th ed. 32
Student Activity Boating Skills And Seamanship • • 1 2 3 Name different Waterway Marks Range Markers Day Markers Regulatory Markers Copyright 2014 - Coast Guard Auxiliary Association, Inc. 14 th ed. 33
Light Characteristics Boating Skills And Seamanship • Light Characteristics • Fixed - ON continuously • Occulting - ON time greater than OFF • Isophase -ON time equal to OFF • Flashing (2. 5, 4, or 6 Sec) • Quick flashing Copyright 2014 - Coast Guard Auxiliary Association, Inc. 14 th ed. 34
Light Characteristics Boating Skills And Seamanship • Preferred channel lights • Color Green or Red • Characteristic: • 2 flashes followed by 1 flash Copyright 2014 - Coast Guard Auxiliary Association, Inc. 14 th ed. 35
Chart Symbols Boating Skills And Seamanship • Symbols for fixed lights • Symbols for buoys • Symbols for day marks Copyright 2014 - Coast Guard Auxiliary Association, Inc. 14 th ed. 36
Intracoastal Waterway Boating Skills And Seamanship • ICW • Yellow triangles, squares • Note yellow on marks Copyright 2014 - Coast Guard Auxiliary Association, Inc. 14 th ed. 37
Intracoastal Waterway Boating Skills And Seamanship INTRACOASTAL WATERWAY Copyright 2014 - Coast Guard Auxiliary Association, Inc. 14 th ed. 38
Intracoastal Waterway Boating Skills And Seamanship • Dual Purpose Marks • Used to mark coastal waters and ICW • Sometimes: yellow triangle on square lateral mark, or a yellow square on triangle lateral mark • If following ICW, use yellow marks • If following main channel, follow red/green lateral marks Copyright 2014 - Coast Guard Auxiliary Association, Inc. 14 th ed. 39
Light Structures Boating Skills And Seamanship • Light houses • • Classes of lights Light structures Light sectors Sound signals Copyright 2014 - Coast Guard Auxiliary Association, Inc. 14 th ed. 40
Lights on Bridges Boating Skills And Seamanship • Bridges marked on charts by type: • Fixed, Swing, Bascule, Lift, etc. • Lights on bridges are not part of buoyage system • Drawbridges • RED Lights - Bridge is closed • GREEN Lights - Bridge is open • Green lights mark channel centerline for fixed bridge - Red lights mark sides of channel • Preferred channel marked with white lights Copyright 2014 - Coast Guard Auxiliary Association, Inc. 14 th ed. 41
Electronic ATONS Boating Skills And Seamanship • GPS • Global Positioning System (GPS) • Differential GPS • Wide Area Augmentation Systems (WAAS-GPS) • RACON • RAdar bea. CON Copyright 2014 - Coast Guard Auxiliary Association, Inc. 14 th ed. 42
Navigation Publications Boating Skills And Seamanship • Local notice to mariners • Local Notice to Mariners Online • Chart No. 1: Nautical Chart Symbols, Abbreviations, and Terms • Light List (Seven Volumes) • Coast Pilots Approved by DC-E USCG Aux. A, Inc Copyright 2014 - Coast Guard Auxiliary Association, Inc. 14 th ed. 43
Thank you Boating Skills And Seamanship • Illustrations provided by Mc. Graw Hill Education The Copyright 2014 - Coast Guard Auxiliary Association, Inc. 14 th ed. 44
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