Section 13: Buoyage and Pilotage
As we approach the end of the navigation section so, appropriately, we turn to methods which take over as we approach and enter port at the end of a passage. Things start to happen much more quickly and techniques of visual eyeballing take over from navigation by plotting on the chart which would take too long.
The section comprises the following:
The IALA buoyage systems A and B
Techniques of visual pilotage