All the markers can be hard to see when looking directly at the sun. Color doesn't matter. Other boats, too. Mostly, I look at the chart and the dotted line goes close to shore or outside the buoy, away from land. You don't need to know color or compass direction for those many cases.
1. Study the chart for a planned destination before you leave the house, not after you get in the boat and are en route. For most routes you can go from flasher to flasher in a straight line in open water.
2. Appoint a navigator. No reason one person should drive and navigate too. Give your binoculars to the navigator.
3. Be the navigator and let someone else enjoy driving. Why should you be the only one?
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