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Starboard hand buoy
Red buoy / Starboard Lateral Buoy
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Types of Buoys for boats and their meanings
Lateral buoys
Starboard hand buoy
What is a starboard hand buoy?
A starboard hand buoy
marks the starboard (right) side of a channel or where a danger is located.
It must be kept on the starboard (right) side of a pleasure craft when proceeding
upstream direction
.
It is coloured red.
If the starboard buoy has a light, the color of the light is red.
Its top is cone-shaped
and if it is numbered, it bears an even number.
