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Originally Posted by Phantom
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Another little known factoid that would have certainly helped you align the graveyard is that ALL Red Top's have a reflective band just below the red. Thus making it easy to discern a red top from a black top quite quickly. Beware of older wooden spars (very few left these days) where the reflective tape has worn off.
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To expand on that a little. Per Capt Dunleavy in "Safe Boating 101" (available on
www.NHLAKES.org), red tops, as opposed to solid red, have a space below the red, which leaves a white stripe, then the reflector. No space on black buoys. Thus, a colorblind person can differentiate red top from black top even in daylight.
For others:
Yes you can go all around the lake from flasher to flasher. Start in Weirs Bay at #1, #2 marks the channel between Eagle and Governors, #3 marks the channel going between Meredith and Bear Island, etc. until you get to #31-38 in the Weirs Channel. Others were added after that initial set up, not necessarily directly related to light to light navigation. For example, I think #68 and #69 were added when NWZ were added on Welch and Governor's islands.