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Originally Posted by GWC...
You are correct for FL 1 and your dissertation about FL 41 makes sense, until one consults a map.
Consulting a map, one realizes that the course is almost identical as the one you describe for FL 41 as for FL 1 when leaving the Weirs docks and heading toward Eagle Island, more so if one is leaving the Weirs channel.
The point being, the current system has its flaws and MP provides an answer similar to yours when queried and FL 1 is used as an example.
Thusly, it is very easy to understand the confusion and dismay with the color of some buoys and the location of the hazard they warn, as described by hazelnut.
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I'll try once more to be clear about FL41 - when you make the approach along the Cow Isl shore from the broads, you're travelling north. Pass the much-discussed red-top to the west, keeping it to your right, and continue on toward FL41. One is still travelling northward and one passes the black-top and light to the east, keeping them on your left. As you turn left toward Little Bear Isl, you still have the black-top/light on your left, and you are now north of them and still safe! No confusion here. The rocks are southwest of the black-top/light, exactly where they're supposed to be.