Ok boating regs state that you must drive on the lake as if it was a road. Right hand side of the channel no matter which direction you are going. If you are going up barkley red buoys on your right as you go up stream one of the boats was going up stream and was against the red bouys as he should be the other one should have been over next to the green buoys as he was going towards the **** . The channel bouys make a big swing to the right and then back to the left . as we went up thru there everyone coming out of kuttawa was in line on the right side of the channel ( going towards the ****) and every one going south on barkley was on the other side. But if you cut the corner( shoot straight across ), there a person can gain a bunch of ground on someone in front of you.