All Boaters Must Know This! ~ How To Navigate the ICW | Boating 101 Navigation Tutorial
All Boaters Must Know This! ~ How To Navigate the ICW | Boating 101 Navigation Tutorial
In today’s video, Captain Mike breaks down markers of the Intracoastal Waterway (ICW). The ICW runs down the eastern seaboard of the United States parallel to the Atlantic and Gulf. It offers protection that the open ocean does not and makes a great cruise for boaters. By knowing the meaning of the markers and shapes, you will be able to travel safely through a channel.
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Heading North the square (day?) marker should be on you right, or starboard. Great info. Been boating 20 yrs in the Great Lakes and always near home and never really had to apply the info. Now I live in the Keys and hit bottom first day just 200 yds from the launch. This info will be well used here in the keys. Thanks!
In the ICW instead of trying to remember North-Green-Starboard (which is actually false on the west coast of FL) and a lot to remember even for me, I just remember that the red triangles always are on the mainland side of the channel. Red is dark and looks like sand/clay so it reminds me that red represents the mainland side of the channel and I should stay on the ocean side of that marker in the ICW. Green is a lighter color and the color of ocean up here in stuart sometimes so that represents the ocean side of the channel and I should be staying on the mainland side of that marker.
STARBOARD brother~
Thank you. I’m just learning waterway naviagtion and this vid is just great for learning the basics.
They’re Aids to Navigation, not “channel markers”
When u coming back home from where ever the green marker should be on the left because red right return
Right
Me and spouse are learning, thank you for taking time to make these videos.
Traveling north bk home the marker is going to be on your left or star port..
Great info, however in Fl. 99.99% of the boaters do not wear life jackets even on kids. Even less know how to launch and retrieve a boat. They could not care less about causing a wake. To expect the 99.99% to understand and OBEY and any rules of safety is too much to ask. Keep up the great videos.
Right side because you are heading north.
In Australia it’s the opposite. Coming into port the red markers are on the left (port) side and green on the right (starboard side).
size of cap sized atlantic london crypto
Right
What do the numbers mean?
on the left!
ocean side, great video as to i am learning the icw myself
Starboard side
on the right side
Very informative Capt Mike. Thanks.
Have you actually taken that boat from Miami to Virginia? If so that would be an epic video.
On the right
Starboard
green left return
Starboard side
Square on starboard side leaving the channel.
That’s confusing, I’d have to have a chart laminated on the boat with the rules! But then again I don’t have a boat.
The square board should be to starboard
Great video, wish there’s more informational videos for beginner boater like myself. Thank You!!
Right
Bro this is exactly what I needed to see
You can make a video on keeping people off my anchor lines
The OUTSIDE – it should be on the OUT-side of the boat. (Laugh, but there’s videos of people who don’t know that.).
Not to confuse folks but specifically when following the ICW Going SOUTH — yellow triangle is kept to the right (starboard) while yellow square/rectangle is kept to the left (port). The boater follows the yellow color on the ICW — not the color (red or green) of the channel marker). ICW channel markers always have a yellow rectangle or square, and in the event two markers offer conflicting directions, the yellow colors supersede the colors of the actual red or green marker on which they appear. When traveling southbound, markers with a yellow triangle should be passed by keeping it on the right (starboard) of the vessel while markers with a yellow square or rectangle should be passed by keeping it to the left (port side) of the vessel.
Going north Right side.
And never listen to the wife when she said, "Just go that way, that pontoon boat doing it."
The Port side
Right side
Starboard
on your right 🤷
Great video I want to get into boating. I haven’t been on a boat since I was 15yrs old. Im now 52 I love fishing but never had a boat. They need boating school 😆 Ive seen a lot of craziness in FL water ways.
So I am on the great loop heading south from Chicago to Mobile on the Gulf – is there a nav aid to show me where the colours change?
INTRAcoastal Waterway.
heading north squares are on the starboard side while in the channel . Why because the united states coast Gard made it that way to make it easier while navigating a channel
Starboard side, right side, headed north
Square on the right/starboard side and f heading North. Thank you for teaching us this potentially lifesaving information.
Left side
Great video! Thanks for the info. I just found your channel so, I’m sure I’m late for the contest but I wanted to answer anyway. Heading North the channel marker should be on the starboard side to keep you inside the channel so you don’t run-aground or tear up the grass.
I still don’t get this stuff. I’ll just wait for someone to yell at me
awesome job!!!