Coastal Navigation; Or, Notes on the Use of ChartsGriffin, 1885 - 60 páginas |
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100 fathoms anchor angle BAY OF ISLANDS beacon binnacle black horizontal bore bottom broom Buoys painted called carry centre channel chart table chequered circle close hauled coast coloured compass card compass course conical buoys Dead Reckoning decimals diameters direction distance divided drift drift nets earth ebb tide equal feet fishing flag flood tide Fog Signals full moon harbour high water knot per hour lead line log-line log-ship Longitude Low Water lubber line Magnetic masthead measure Mercator's Chart Meridian neap tides needle observed orange parallel rulers Patent Log point leeway Pole Star port hand port side port tack quadrant reckoned reefed round the horizon SCHOONER BRAVE Sea marks sea mile seaward set and drift ship ship's position side lights South starboard hand starboard side steer subtract take bearings tidal stream true North Variation vertical vessel voyage West wind
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Página 52 - The highest and lowest of these lights shall be red, and the middle light shall be white, and they shall be of such a character as to be visible all round the horizon, at a distance of at least 2 miles.
Página 52 - ... such lantern shall be exhibited, in sufficient time to prevent collision, so that the green light shall not be seen on the port side nor the red light on the starboard side.
Página 52 - ... under way and when not having their nets, trawls, dredges, or lines in the water, shall carry and show the same lights as other vessels under way.
Página 53 - Fishing vessels and open boats may at any time use a flareup in addition to the lights which they are by this Article required to carry and show. All flare-up lights exhibited by a vessel when trawling, dredging, or fishing with any kind of...
Página 42 - BUOYS painted with RED and BLACK HORIZONTAL STRIPES will be found on OBSTRUCTIONS, with channel ways on either side of them, and may be left on either hand in passing in.
Página 52 - By day she shall carry in a vertical line one over the other, not less than 6 feet apart, where they can best be seen, three shapes not less than 2 feet in diameter, of which the highest and lowest shall be globular in shape and red in colour, and the middle one diamond in shape and white.
Página 53 - In fog, mist, falling snow, or heavy rain storms drift-net vessels attached to their nets, and vessels when trawling, dredging, or fishing with any kind of drag net, and...
Página 52 - The vessels referred to in this article, when not making way through the water, shall not carry the side lights, but when making way shall carry them.
Página 53 - Every fishing vessel and every open boat, when at anchor between sunset and sunrise, shall exhibit a white light visible all round the horizon at a distance of at least one mile.
Página 52 - ... these lights shall be red and the other shall be white. The red light shall be above the white light, and shall be at a vertical distance from it of not less than six feet and not more than twelve feet; and the horizontal distance between them, if any, shall not be more than ten feet.