Do you know the symbol table the best way to describe the background to anchor? 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 is broken in nature, texture and color. You will always see what kind of down on paper. Texture and color isoften been found to give a 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. could anchor your boat in the soil, damage the grass, pulling weeds, rocks or oyster beds. Use a large plow again, as a CQR, including Bruce Rocna or Delta, or soil of two anchors, as these types.
Texture background
And 'soil structure, soft, hard, sticky or broken? Grounding is not like aConcern in the soft sand, soft or sticky mud, seaweed or grass. But rock, coral or rocks could puncture the hull, keel damage, rudder, propeller or propeller. With great care not to be facing a tough crowd before you, 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 if your navigation map.
Read these abbreviations commonly used in the cruise world. Note that the symbols of the seabed are always in italics to chart:
Type
S - sand; M - Mud; Sh - Shells, GRS - Grass; K - Kelp, Rk 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.
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