1.6.4 Navigation on the Corrib System

painted Red on the Port hand and Green on Starboard hand when proceeding upstream. Navigation marks are not lit on the Shannon.

▪a canoe, skiff, skull

▪a row boat

▪a boat designed to be propelled

primarily by oars or sail

On the Shannon Erne Waterway east of Lough Scur, the marking system changes to a system of red marks with white flashes where the white flash indicates the safe side. The Corrib system uses a red and green lateral buoyage system which is the same as that on the Shannon.

▪propelled by engine greater than

15 horsepower.

The bye-laws were amended in 1994 to prevent the discharge of sewage directly into the navigation from any vessel.

1.6.2 Navigation on the Shannon

1.6.3 Canal System Navigation

The Shannon Navigation Bye-laws (S.I. No. 80 of 1992) identify the rules to be followed by craft navigating the Shannon waterways.

Navigation on the Royal and Grand Canals is controlled by bye-laws made under the Canals Act 1986 and 2005. Please contact Waterways Ireland for further details on these bye-laws.

While similar in content to the COLREGS, there are a number of additional specific rules that apply.

[Note: At time of print, Waterways Ireland was reviewing the Shannon Navigation, Canals and other Bye- Laws. Check the Waterways Ireland website at www.waterwaysireland. org for further updates on amended bye-laws.]

▪Vessels shall not run abreast

or overtake in any part of the navigation less than 13 m in width.

▪Vessels navigating with the stream

shall be given precedence for passage through a bridge by those craft navigating against the stream of the river.

1.6.4 Navigation on the Corrib System

▪Boats should keep to the starboard

The Lough Corrib Navigation Trustees are responsible for the maintenance of navigation aids and a limited number of piers on the Corrib system, maintenance of the Eglinton canal system, associated walkways, tow paths, lock gates and boundary walls.

side of the fairway passing port to port.

▪A craft proceeding upstream

must give way to those going downstream.

▪Speed limits are to be adhered to

as laid down in the Bye-laws.

1.7 Maritime Safety Act 2005 (No. 11 of 2005), as amended

▪On entering the Shannon

Navigation, the direction of Buoyage is Northwards.

One of the primary purposes of this Act is to strengthen the law against improper use of certain recreational

Buoys, Beacons and Perches are