In the old days, mariners navigated by looking at a paper chart and a compass. Today, electronic plotters and GPS equipment have just about killed paper charts. But if the electronics fail, many skippers will resort to red, right, return. Keeping the red buoys to starboard when returning to port might get you to your destination, unless of course you skip one, which could lead to a costly mistake.
Stopping by the boatyard one afternoon, I chatted with a boat owner standing by his inboard cruiser in the Travelift and noticed a pair of bent wheels hanging from the propeller shafts. Somewhere in his travels he had found some underwater real estate
