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Re: [off-topic] Buoy Terminology
From: Lu Abel
Date: 2004 Oct 13, 17:16 -0700
From: Lu Abel
Date: 2004 Oct 13, 17:16 -0700
Jarad: I'm not really trying to buy my own buoy, I was just using that as an example of "what do you call it?" I saw the SailNet article you reference. I find it fascinating because they note that these beasties come in various sizes (eg, 7x17) but the article nowhere gives a name for them. Since I made my post I've gotten an email from a Coast Guardsman who has served on a buoy tender and claims there is no name for them! If they have lights or sound-producing devices, then they can be called that way (eg, a lighted buoy or a bell buoy), but if I have a plain-vanilla buoy of the with the truss-like upper works, there isn't a name for it!! Guess I'll have to add this buoy to my list of "things that we all see but don't have a name," like the groove that runs from your nose to your upper lip... Oh well, back to Lunar Distances... at least we have a name for them :-) Lu At 08:54 AM 10/13/2004, you wrote: >Lu, it seems there are very few people making them, i.e. one mfr for the >whole US east coast. > >http://www.sailnet.com/collections/articles/index.cfm?articleid=doolin0010 > >You might try asking the USCG OAN if they have any terminology for it, or if >they just order a "sea buoy" in a certain size and let the vendor fabricate >it to an internal design.
