A daymark is a navigational aid for sailors and pilots, distinctively marked to maximize its visibility in daylight. The word is also used in a more specific, technical sense to refer to a

signboard Signage is the design or use of signs and symbols to communicate a message. A signage also means signs ''collectively'' or being considered as a group. The term ''signage'' is documented to have been popularized in 1975 to 1980. Signs are any ...

or daytime identifier that is attached to a

day beacon A day beacon (sometimes "daybeacon") is an unlighted nautical sea mark. A signboard identifying it is called a day mark. Day beacons typically mark channels whose key points are marked by lighted buoys. They may also mark smaller navigable rout ...

or other

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. In that sense, a daymark conveys to the mariner during daylight hours the same significance as does the aid's light or reflector at night. Standard signboard shapes are square, triangular and rectangular; and the standard colours are red, green, orange, yellow and black.

Notable daymarks

* Trinity House Obelisk * Kingswear Daymark * Tasku beacon tower * Keskiniemi beacon tower * Hiidenniemi beacon tower * Laitakari beacon tower * Herring Tower, Langness *

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* La Tour Cârrée * Scharhörnbake

Symbols used on US charts

Chart symbols used by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Department, 2013.

References

Navigational aids {{Pharology-stub

Notable daymarks

Symbols used on US charts

See also

References