Seven high resolution, detailed deep sea navigation buoys (with the green and the red pillar buoys in light and heavily weathered versions to make a total of nine buoys).
A buoy's shape and color allows a boat or ship to follow a safe course on the water. Red buoys should be kept to a ship's right side when the ship is returning from sea, or heading upstream or toward the origin or headwaters of a water body. Green buoys should be kept to a ship's left side.
The yellow and black buoy marks a hazard in the water. Because it is often positioned near a hazard and in rough water, it typically has a more durable type of can bottom, has a solar power backup system for the light, and for the electronic transponder at the top of the buoy. Use this buoy near a shipwreck or other water hazard.
A buoy's size very roughly indicates water depth. The pillar-type buoys are used in the open ocean and near harbor mouths. These are modeled after buoys large enough for a man to stand upright between the top of the "can" and the "lamp deck" - reaching upward to hold onto the handles. But smaller scale versions of these pillar buoys (about half height) are used within harbors to mark the channel.
The small nun buoys mark the channel within a harbor, or mark the channel near beaches and stone breakwaters.
All the buoys in this package are naturally weathered.
All have some light salt stains and patches and all have weathered edges on the metal parts. The bronze bolts on those buoys that have them are lightly corroded. The plastic lamp housings are lightly stained on all the pillar buoys.
All the buoys that have lights, have pre-positioned point lights. One of the green pillar buoys is heavily stained and corroded. The weathered red pillar buoy is only more lightly weathered than the green pillar buoy. One green nun has a small amount of bird droppings on its upper surface.
Software: Vue 9
