Day Skipper Quiz · Buoyage

Entering harbour from seaward (IALA A), how do you pass this mark?

A buoy. Body: green. Topmark: a green cone, point up.
A buoy. Body: green. Topmark: a green cone, point up.
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Keep it on your starboard side (to your right). A green cone is a starboard-hand lateral mark. Going into harbour, keep it to starboard. (In IALA B, used in the Americas, Japan, Korea and the Philippines, the colours are reversed.)

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