Buoy Channel

BuoyRead Channel Kit turns dense IALA and COLREGS buoyage rules into a tactile, scenario-graded cockpit skill—so you stop guessing red-right-returning at night or in fog. Built for new boaters, sailing-school students, coastal kayak tour leads, and harbor skippers who must correctly leave-to lateral marks, cardinals, preferred-channel junctions, isolated-danger, and safe-water marks under both IALA Region A and Region B before they cast off. STUDY EVERY MARK Choose Region A or B on the brass helm hub, then browse a seeded encyclopedia of lateral, preferred-channel, cardinal (N/E/S/W), isolated-danger, safe-water, and special marks. Enamel-style illustrated cards show body color, topmark, and light color at a glance. Open any mark for pass-side meaning, then play its real light characteristic—Fl, Fl(2), Oc, Iso, Q, VQ, LFl—as a timed on-device blink preview with period and duty-cycle readout you can scrub. GRADED LEAVE-TO DRILLS A channel diagram presents a junction or bend. Tap Port or Starboard leave-to (or safe-water behavior). The app scores your choice with a short rule callout and a corrected overlay path—so the right move sticks before you are under way. REGION A VS B, SIDE BY SIDE Use the split viewer on the same junction silhouette to lock red-right versus red-left differences with simultaneous enamel cards and a one-tap swap-region control. HOME STRETCH APPROACH STRIPS Build a personal approach strip for your marina or inlet. Drag seeded or custom marks into sequence, annotate mile and note labels, then flip through them full-screen as a pre-departure mental rehearsal deck. FOG, SOUND, AND LIGHT RHYTHM Play short reference blast sequences for power vessels, sailing vessels, and marks at anchor or aground, then match pattern-to-meaning in a quick identification quiz. Open Light Rhythm boards that plot on/off seconds as bold waveform cards. Cover the label, guess the characteristic name, reveal the answer, and pin misses into a Weak Signals study pile. SAVE AND BRIEF YOUR CREW Save favorites and Home Stretch strips into local study sets. Share a plain-text or PDF-style summary sheet of mark names, meanings, and flash codes via the system share sheet for crew briefings. From first-time students to harbor skippers refreshing a night inlet, BuoyRead Channel Kit makes buoyage a practiced skill—not a last-minute guess.