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secondcurve · 07-19-2006, 07:08 PM

I hate to admit it, but I busted up a prop (thankfully it was aluminum!) several weeks ago in the Graveyard. I was heading toward the broads and went through a series of 5 (I believe) spar buoys that each have corresponding buoys directly across from them. Well, there are two more buoys beyond where the channel is marked. One is several hundred yards out and you have to stay to the right (west) of it. Unfortunately, there is another red buoy that is between the matched buoys and the final red buoy (Am I making sense?). I forgot about that one and in my haste to move west to go around the final red buoy I veered to the right of the red buoy between the well defined channel and the final buoy. Well I should have been to the left of that one! Fortunately, I wasn't going fast and the damage was minimal. The point of this post is that in my opinion, that channel should be marked on both sides for 6 or 7 buoys as opposed to the 5 that are there. Any thoughts?

07-19-2006, 07:08 PM	#9
secondcurve Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 2,129 Thanks: 1,358 Thanked 564 Times in 291 Posts	The Graveyard I hate to admit it, but I busted up a prop (thankfully it was aluminum!) several weeks ago in the Graveyard. I was heading toward the broads and went through a series of 5 (I believe) spar buoys that each have corresponding buoys directly across from them. Well, there are two more buoys beyond where the channel is marked. One is several hundred yards out and you have to stay to the right (west) of it. Unfortunately, there is another red buoy that is between the matched buoys and the final red buoy (Am I making sense?). I forgot about that one and in my haste to move west to go around the final red buoy I veered to the right of the red buoy between the well defined channel and the final buoy. Well I should have been to the left of that one! Fortunately, I wasn't going fast and the damage was minimal. The point of this post is that in my opinion, that channel should be marked on both sides for 6 or 7 buoys as opposed to the 5 that are there. Any thoughts?