[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 33, Volume 1]

[Revised as of July 1, 2005]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 33CFR62.27]



[Page 148]

 

                TITLE 33--NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS

 

         CHAPTER I--COAST GUARD, DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY

 

PART 62_UNITED STATES AIDS TO NAVIGATION SYSTEM--Table of Contents

 

              Subpart B_The U.S. Aids to Navigation System

 

Sec. 62.27  Safe water marks.



    Safe water marks indicate that there is navigable water all around 

the mark. They are often used to indicate fairways or midchannels, or 

the seaward end of channels. Safe water marks are colored with red and 

white vertical stripes. Beacons have an octagonal daymark; red and white 

buoys are spherical or display a red spherical topmark.



[CGD 86-031, 52 FR 42640, Nov. 6, 1987, as amended by CGD 88-018, 54 FR 

48608, Nov. 24, 1989]