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From: Lu Abel (no email)
Date: Wed Oct 13 2004 - 20:16:09 EDT
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
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>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.
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