Show THE COLORS OF BUOYS machone each one rears bears a message Messa fic to tho the patting bailor when you enter any harbor in the world where the channel is marked by buoys you will find that those on your right as you pass in are painted 1 red and those on your left black if you should see one painted in red and black horizontal bands the ship should run as closets close to it as possible because that indicates the center of a narrow channel buoys buoy a with red and bak vertical stripes always mark the end of spits and the outer and inner ends of extensive reefs where there is a channel on each side when red and black checkers are painted on a buoy it marks either a rock in the open sea or an obstruction in the khe harbor of small extent with channel all around it if there are two such obstructions and a channel between them the buoy on the right of you will have red and white checkers and the one on your left will have blacic and white checkers when a wreck obstructs the channel a green buoy will be placed on the sea side of the wreck with the word wreck plainly painted on it in white letters provided there is a clear channel all around it otherwise an even number num berwill will be painted in white above the word woid wreck when the buoy is is on the right side of the channel and an odd number it if the buoy biloy is on the left |