Cardinals & Danger Marks (and Indian River, Dominica) - Ep. 28

Cardinals & Danger Marks. This episode starts in the beautiful islands of Îles des Saintes, Guadeloupe in the French West Indies. Here's some tips.

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Cardinals & Danger Marks are important for any navigator to understand well. Failing to do so may mean your boat ending up on a reef. There is a logic to Cardinals that is easy once explained.

Isolated Danger Marks (0:36)

Black & red colour, two black balls as a day shape, to indicate an isolated danger.

Cardinals (01:47)

A cardinal is like a policeman saying "You must stay ____ of me". So a North Cardinal is a policeman saying "You must stay North of me". And so on.

North Cardinal is two arrows pointing up.
South Cardinals is two arrows pointing down.
East Cardinal is the top arrow pointing up, the bottom arrow pointing down (kinda like an egg, think E is for egg)
West Cardinal is the top arrow pointing down, the bottom arrow pointing up (kinda like a sideways W)

The Color System for Cardinals (03:18)

Here is the logic: arrows point to black. So if you see black at the top, that is North (points to black). If you see black in between yellow (ie. from the top it goes yellow, black, yellow), that is West (points to black). And so on.

The Light Signature for Cardinals (04:13)

The logic here is the clockface: an East Cardinal flashes three times (ie. 3 o'clock), the West Cardinal flashes nine times (ie. 9 o'clock). North Cardinal is a constant flasher, and South Cardinal flashes six short, one long (ie. 6 o'clock, the long flasher confirming it is a South Cardinal).

Question & Answer (05:51)

Clarified with Dylan around "point to black" for the colour logic.

Dominica (07:12)

We LOVE Dominica. Here we explore Indian River, which was featured in Pirates of the Caribbean. It is beautiful. This was a day after we climbed up to the Boiling Lake, the second-largest such event in the world (after New Zealand xoxo). We really can't get enough of Dominica.

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Acknowledgements

Thanks to a great group of students for that week. We had Adam Guldemann, Dylan Hall and JP Bleibtreu. We love everything about Sailing Virgins when we get a chance to adventure with great people like these guys.

Thanks to the legendary Forrest Ladkin, who shot and edited this episode. Forrest is one of the best guys we have ever worked with in this space. If you want to shoot any videos, talk to Forrest and be ready to throw wads of cash at him, he's worth it. His instagram is @forrest_ladkin

Music Credits
(00:02) Dulce by Kazam
(07:46) Bonobo by Kong

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