Preferred channel mark

	A modified lateral mark.
	Used where a channel splits into a major and a minor channel, to a same destination.
	This system does not provide for a preferred channel mark where the channels rejoin.
	These have both red and green coloring, but the main color is that for the major channel.
	The coloring for the minor channel is only a stripe.

Colors:

	Red and green colors used for preferred channel marks.
	In region-A, a preferred channel to starboard is indicated by a port hand red color buoy with a green band.
	In region-B, a preferred channel to starboard is indicated by a port hand green buoy with a red band.

Topmark:

	Optional.
	Port hand marks (Preferred channel to starboard) carry can shape topmark.
	Starboard hands (Preferred channel to port) carry cone shape.

Light:

	When exhibited, red and green lights are used.
	These buoys use Fl(2+1)R and Fl(2+1)G .

Admiralty chart symbol:


Preferred channel to stbd	Preferred channel to port	Preferred channel to stbd	Preferred channel to port
Region-A (Unlit)		Region-B (Lit)

Photograph:


Preferred channel to port (Region-A)	Preferred channel to port (Region-B)

Updated: June 23, 2003