User talk:Vellari

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Category:Leading_beacons

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Safe_water_spar_buoy_without_topmark.jpg: bouy or beacon?

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Safe_water_spar_buoy_without_topmark.jpg Thanks for the explanation about the missing topmark. But are you sure it's a buoy? It looks more like a beacon to me. OuiQui (talk) 19:46, 8 May 2023 (UTC)

The terms buoy and beacon can probably be used interchangeably by a layman. But a buoy is definitely a floating device (as the safe water mark in this picture), whereas a beacon is usually a fixed mark, set on the shoreline or permanently mounted on the seabed.

Traficom, the Finnish governmental agency in charge of nautical charts in Finland, calls this kind of a mark a Plastic Spar Buoy. See https://traficom.fi/sites/default/files/media/file/merkkienselitys.pdf, section Standard shapes and symbols.

Chart No. 1 is a standardized publication that defines nautical chart symbols. See the section Q Buoys, Beacons, item no. 130.5, for example in U.S. https://nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/publications/docs/us-chart-1/ChartNo1.pdf. It is called a Spar buoy there, too. On page 89 of the U.S. Chart 1, floating marks are called buoys and fixed marks beacons.

So, to answer your question, I'm pretty sure it is a buoy, because it is a floating mark. Vellari (talk) 18:49, 7 June 2023 (UTC)

Map of CEVNI Countries.svg

CEVNI countries

Hello Vellari,

regarding your File:Map of CEVNI Countries.svg: On the map Kazakhstan is shown as country implementing CEVNI. But in chapter III Status of application of resolutions of the document Application of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe resolutions on inland navigation (linked from https://unece.org/resolutions-1) Kazakhstan is not listed at all. Maybe you have another source, but if not, maybe you can fix this issue? Thanks, 213.55.222.36 10:47, 15 June 2024 (UTC)