The Canadian Aids to Navigation System 2011

Table of Contents

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• Preface

• Notices

• Introduction
  • General
  • The Canadian Aids to Navigation System
  • Cautions in the Use of Aids to Navigation

• Related Legislation
  • Canada Shipping Act, 2001
  • Charts and Nautical Publications Regulation, 1995
  • Collision Regulations
  • Private Buoy Regulations
  • Vessel Operation Restriction Regulations
  • Criminal Code of Canada

• Canadian Coast Guard Aids to Navigation

• Other Government Aids to Navigation

• Private Aids to Navigation
  • General
  • Markings and Dimensions
  • Public Notification

• Canadian Light Flash Characters

• IALA Maritime Buoyage System (Regions A and B)

• Floating Aids to Navigation (Buoys)
  • Lateral Buoys
  • Isolated Danger Buoys
  • Cardinal Buoys
  • Special Buoys
  • Daytime Identification
  • Nighttime Identification
  • Other Characteristics

• Fixed Aids to Navigation
  • General
  • Lighted Fixed Aids
  • Daybeacons
  • Ranges
  • Aural Aids
  • Sector Lights

• Radio Aids to Navigation
  • Radar Reflectors and Radar Beacons (RACONS)
  • Global Positioning System (GPS)
  • Differential Global Positioning System (DGPS)

• Related Publications

• Canadian Coast Guard Aids to Navigation Offices

• Provincial Contacts – Office of Boating Safety

• United States Aids to Navigation Boating Information