{"id":5356,"date":"2009-05-17T05:43:55","date_gmt":"2009-05-17T10:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/norwegian-lighthouses-and-navigation-marks\/"},"modified":"2009-05-18T10:43:29","modified_gmt":"2009-05-18T15:43:29","slug":"norwegian-lighthouses-and-navigation-marks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/norwegian-lighthouses-and-navigation-marks\/","title":{"rendered":"Norwegian Lighthouses and Navigation Marks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"384\" alt=\"Norwegian-Lighthouses-100\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/norwegian-lighthouses-100.jpg\" width=\"576\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Norway has an incredibly complex array of channels through reefs, rocks, and islands. To assist the mariner through these are a series of sectored lights and light houses. White light means you are on course. Red or green colors of light indicate the direction needed to turn to get back into the white sector.<\/p>\n<p>When laying our a course on the chart plotter we start with the white sectors.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>And then refine the course as appropriate to shorten the distance.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"359\" alt=\"Norwegian-Lighthouses-102\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/norwegian-lighthouses-102.jpg\" width=\"576\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The earliest light houses were coal powered. Now many sport solar panels. <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"576\" alt=\"Norwegian-Lighthouses-103\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/norwegian-lighthouses-103.jpg\" width=\"306\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Norwegian sea birds have been trained to sit on areas where they won&#8217;t foul the optics or coat the solar panels.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"362\" alt=\"Norwegian-Lighthouses-104\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/norwegian-lighthouses-104.jpg\" width=\"576\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There are also lots of unlit marks. Some of these just indicate a rock. Others, like this, have a flag which shows you the correct side to pass.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Norway has an incredibly complex array of channels through reefs, rocks, and islands. To assist the mariner through these are <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/norwegian-lighthouses-and-navigation-marks\/\">&#8230;Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dashew-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5356"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}