Key Dimensions
Technical Drawings
Features & Benefits
Features
- Manufactured to stringent Coast Guard requirements
- Design disperses mooring loads throughout structure
- Rugged 10mm wall thickness in MDPE
- Proprietary IALA E108 Compliant colour with UV-20 protection package
- Foam filled core, will not sink if punctured or damaged
- 316 Stainless steel inserts for Top Marks and Lantern attachment
- 316 Stainless steel lifting eye with fixed connection to mooring eye
- 316 Stainless steel mooring eye
- Conformance to IALA Recommendations
- Available in Lateral, Cardinal, Isolated Danger, Safe Water and Special Mark
Benefits
- Large cost effective Spar buoy for marking inshore channels
- Large durable single float construction
- Designed to withstand harsh Canadian weather conditions
- Good inshore Visual Target Area with a 1.25 NM visible range
- Good inshore Radar Detection [10m2 (Avg at +/- 3 deg.)]
- Optional Top Marks and Lantern attachment
- 316 stainless steel hardware and lifting eye
- Can be deployed from small vessel
- Ultra-low maintenance and does not require sand-blast and painting
Specifications
Performance Specifications
- Focal Plane Height [Maximum]
- 2.03 m
- Draught [Minimum]
- 2.17 m
- Reserve Buoyancy [at max FP]
- 300 kg
- Minimum Mooring Weight
- 235 kg
- Maximum Mooring Weight
- 450 kg
- Visual Area/Surface [at max FP]
- 1.0 m2
- Visual Range [at max FP]
- 1.25 NM Double
- Radar Reflector (Optional)
- 12" Octahedral (10m2)
- Radar Range
- 1.5 NM
Operating Conditions
- Air Temperature Range
- -40 C to + 50 C
- Water Temperature Range
- -2 C to + 50 C
- Operational Current
- 0 to 2 knots
- Survival Current Speed
- 6 knots
- Operational Wind Speed
- 0 to 30 knots
- Survival Wind Speed
- 80 knots
- Operational Wave Height
- 2.00 m
- Survival Wave Height
- 5.00 m
Material Specifications
- Topmark (Optional)
- N/A
- Daymark Structure
- N/A
- Core Structure
- N/A
- Lifting & Mooring Structure
- 316 Stainless Steel Mooring and Lifting Lug
- Lifting Break Load
- 12,465 kg
- Buoy Hull
- Rotationally molded virgin MDPE with UV20 protection package
- Wall Thickness (in / mm)
- 10 mm
- Foam Filling (Optional)
- Closed cell EPS fused in-situ block
- Colors
- IALA compliant colours in accordance with IALA Specification E108
- IALA Compliance Testing
- Independendent Laboratory Test Results available
- Colorfastness Test Procedure
- Xenon Arc Accelerated Weathering per ASTM D-2565
- Colorfastness Testing
- Independendent Laboratory Test Results available per ASTM-D2244
- Product Life Expectancy
- > 20 Years
- Warranty
- 5 Years
