Assume that your vessel has just entered Lake Erie by way of the Welland Canal and is proceeding in a southwesterly direction. Which statement about the aids to navigation you can expect to encounter along the route is TRUE?

Correct Answer: Option D — The characteristics of buoys and other aids are as if "returning from seaward" when proceeding in this direction.

Navigational rules for the Great Lakes and connecting waters dictate that when proceeding from seaward or following the established convention through canals into major basins like Lake Erie, buoys and lateral aids are sequenced as if returning from seaward, maintaining standard red-right-returning conventions.