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Red, Right, Returning
Reading the markers before the markers have to read you.
Coming in from the ocean, keep the red markers on your right. Going out, they're on your left. Red ones are even-numbered and usually triangular; green ones are odd and square. It's the first thing they teach you and the first thing people forget when the light is going.
On the Intracoastal it gets confusing: the little yellow triangle or square on a marker tells you which side to keep it on, no matter which way you're headed. Learn that, and half the guesswork goes away.
Local knowledge is great. A current chart is better.
