Secrets of sailing - you know this symbol of the sea chart?

Do not know the symbol table the best way to describe the bottom for anchoring? Prefer to drop anchor in the rock, mud, coral or clay? If you run aground, it would certainly be away from a shoal, or the action might a hole in your boat? Learn the secrets of seabed to you with this important decision.

Your navigation map seabed features breaks the type, composition and color. You will always see what kind of down on paper. Texture and color isoften proved to give better description of the type of soil.

Type of fund

Select a hard clay or clay below for the best, anchoring at night without problems. can anchor your boat in the soil, damage the grass, pulling weeds, rocks or oyster. Use a large plow again, as a CQR, including Bruce Rocna, or Delta, or two anchors in the ground, as these types.

Texture background

If the soil texture of soft, hard, sticky or faulty? Grounding is like aConcern in the soft sand, soft or sticky mud, seaweed or grass. But rock, coral or rocks could puncture the hull, the keel of the damage, rudder, propeller or propeller. With great caution, not before a swarm takes first, patch testing and damage repair.

Background color

The color is not used much today, but it was in the days of old square riggers crucial. They were coated with samples of soil near the port in a coastal fog. Savvy seacaptains could say how much land were by the color of the background material. Want to see the colors in your case to the navigation map.

Read these abbreviations commonly used in the cruise world. Remember that symbols are always in italics on the sea chart:

Type

S - sand; M - Mud, Sh - Shells, GRS - Grass, K - Kelp, k R or RKY - Rocky, CO - Coral, Oy - oysters, Bld - boulders.

Consistency

or fne f - fine; BRK BK or broken -;SY or STK - sticky, in one way or SFT - soft or HRD H - hard.

Color

wh -; White BL or BK - Black YL - yellow, lt - light DK - dark.

Improve your sailing skills to the next level to understand more and more "under the sea." Know that this symbol table will give you the confidence of the best decisions for your small cruise boat and crew to sail.