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[darcydodo]

Anybody who wants to explain port forwarding to me in layman's terms should feel more than welcome to. Ditto for making sure specific ports have outbound access.

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[rysmiel.livejournal.com]

Damn, you got to it first. And did it better than I would have, too.

*restrained applause*

[darcydodo]

*hugs you twice over*

[glamwhorebunni.livejournal.com]

Got it the wrong way round first time tho :P

[glamwhorebunni.livejournal.com]

Well, not really "wrong".
It's just that I was using method B, where it's all to do with the *shape* of buoys, not their colour.

I'll shut up now.

[glamwhorebunni.livejournal.com]

Of course, the alternative post would have been:

Right, this is following the British maritime code. Not sure if the US sails on the other side as well as drives on the other side...

Basically, a river channel will have buoys marking it out. When inbound to a port, you should keep red buoys to your left ('port') and green buoys to your right ('starboard'). When outbound, do the opposite.

Some buoys such as the spherical mainly-red-but-with-a-horizontal-green-stripe buoys mean that you should treat them as a red buoy unless you have a shallow vessel and good knowledge of the area. Conical mainly-green-with-red-stripe buoys mean the opposite, obviously.

If you want to check the outbound access for a specific port, look at any decent up-to-date maritime chart of the area and it will show you the location and colour of all the buoys.