Just like traffic lights and signs help drivers on the road, boaters have buoys and signs to guide them to and from shore safely. What you’ll see out on the water depends on where you boat. In the ...

Sea lions basking in the sun on red-and-white buoys are often the first sight of wildlife as boaters set out to the open ocean from harbors dotting California’s coastline. The buoys, however, are not ...

To recreational boaters, Aids to Navigation (ATON) are the familiar red and green buoys (and day markers) that line our inland waterways. What they might not be aware of is that buoys have been around ...

(WPRI) — If you rely on traditional buoys while navigating Northeast waters, the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) wants to hear from you. As part of an effort to modernize how mariners navigate, USCG has ...

The Oregon State Marine Board will hold a special meeting Thursday, March 12, to review proposed updates to rules about buoys, waterway markers and slow-no-wake rules. The meeting starts at 1 p.m. at ...

SOUTH PORTLAND (WGME) – The U.S. Coast Guard is proposing a wide-reaching plan to remove or alter hundreds of navigational markers along the New England coast. In Maine alone, the Coast Guard is ...

I share US Representative Seth Moulton’s skepticism of the Coast Guard’s review of nautical markers along the New England coast (“Wave of criticism hits plan to yank some buoys,” Page A1, July 29). He ...

The boat crash that killed three people off Seaford earlier this month has spurred a review by the U.S. Coast Guard of how it keeps track of navigational buoys. The review comes as the agency has ...