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** NEW UPDATE **
IALA Buoys & Lights helps to improve your navigation skills and stay safer on the water. It covers both IALA Maritime Buoyage Systems A and B.
This essential reference, learning and revision app helps skippers, sailors, boaters, anglers, crew and maritime professionals recognise and interpret buoyage, navigation marks and light characteristics.
“The graphics are clear and well done, and the info is great to carry with me. Works perfectly.”
QUICK, RELIABLE, PRACTICAL REFERENCE
Whether you are on the water or ashore, studying in daylight or checking a mark in darkness or poor visibility, IALA Buoys & Lights makes it easy to find the relevant illustration, rule and definition.
- Quick reference IALA Buoys and Lights – systems A and B
- Search across the app to find buoyage, lights and IALA rules quickly
- Find key sections quickly from the redesigned home screen
- Supports sailing, boating and maritime training courses
- Learn using more than 100 custom-made illustrations
- Supports classroom instruction and independent study
- Test your recall through interactive quizzes
- Visual aide-mémoire when out on the water
- Use core reference content without internet connection
- Especially useful for students of Day Skipper, Coastal Skipper and Yachtmaster courses
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WHAT’S NEW IN THIS VERSION
This major update makes IALA Buoys & Lights faster, clearer and easier to use.
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Features and Benefits:
- Easy reference learning and revision tool for day skippers and boat pilots
- 100+ graphics with clear explanations of the rules
- Researched and produced by nautical experts for accuracy
- Positively evaluated by professional navigators for reliability
- Interactive “Test Yourself” Section
- No internet connection required
- Simple, easy to use navigation for quick reference
- Every IALA buoyage marker available at your fingertips
Expertly drawn illustrations are accompanied by clear, concise descriptions. If you are responsible for a vessel at sea, no matter how small or large, you must be able to recognise different types of navigation marks, day or night, and know what they mean.
This Buoys & Lights app will help improve your overall boating skills and safety on the water. Buoys & Lights is designed to help all recreational and professional seafarers learn and understand the world buoyage systems which are organised by the International Association of Lighthouse Authorities (IALA). There are two systems in use, IALA A and IALA B and they are both explained fully in this app.
The app has 4 sections:
Buoyage: A graphic reference guide with 70 illustrations and captions which explain the different types of buoy, their uses, appearance, permutations and light characteristics
Lights: A graphic reference guide with 12 illustrations and captions which explain the different types of light and their characteristics, used by beacons and lighthouses
IALA Rules: The International Association of Lighthouse Authorities (IALA) rules are reproduced in full
Test Yourself: A series of multiple choice questions with 35 graphic representations of the rules helps you check your knowledge.
Other apps in this series:
ColRegs: Nav Lights & Shapes covers Part C: “Lights and Shapes” (Rules 20-31) of the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea (IRPCS).
Navigation Rules Inland covers the complete Inland Navigation Rules for U.S. inland waters and the Great Lakes.
ColRegs: The Rules of the Road covers the “Steering and Sailing Rules” and “Sound and Light Signals” sections of the IRPCS In use around the world!
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