Equipment For Your Boat

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Equipment For Your Boat
Chapter 5
Reprinted with permission from U.S. Coast Guard
Office of Boating Safety
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Equipment For Your Boat

• Part 1 - Chapter 5

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Lesson Objectives

• Safety equipment required on your boat
• Recommended safety equipment

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Requirements for Your Boat

• Registered vessel
• Documented vessel

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Requirements for Your Boat

• Numbering

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Requirements for Your Boat

• Hull Identification Number

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Requirements for Your Boat

• Capacity plate
• Manufacturers Certificate of Compliance

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Requirements for Your Boat

• Length of boats

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Fire Prevention and Detection

• What is best way to detect gas fumes?

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Reprinted with permission from Seaworthy
Essential Lessons from Boat USs 20 Year Case
File of Things Gone Wrong by Robert A. Adriance
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Fire Prevention and Detection

• What are two types of ventilation systems?

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Fire Prevention and Detection

• Backfire Flame Arresters
• Discuss

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Fire Prevention and Detection

• Carbon Monoxide
• Primary source
• Prevention

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Fire Extinguishers

• What boats are required to have fire
  extinguishers?

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Fire Extinguishers

• What are the elements of a fire?

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Reprinted with permission from Small Boat
Seamanship Manual
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Types of Fires

• Type A wood, paper, cloth
• Type B oil, grease, gas
• Type C - electrical

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Fire Extinguishers

• What materials are in a fire extinguisher?

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Fire Extinguishers

• Must be Coast Guard approved

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Fire Extinguishers

• Care and Treatment
• Name three things to check

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Fire Extinguishers

• How to use a fire extinguisher

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Seamanship Manual
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Life Jackets

• Must be Coast Guard approved
• Must fit properly

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Courtesy of Personal Flotation Device
Manufactures Association
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Type 1 Life Jacket

• 22 pounds of flotation
• Will turn most unconscious people face up
• Acceptable on all recreational and commercial
  vessels

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Manufactures Association
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Type II Life Jacket

• 15.5 pounds flotation
• Will turn most unconscious people face up
• Acceptable on all recreational boats

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Manufactures Association
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Type III Life Jacket

• 15.5 pounds flotation
• Many special designs for water sports
• Acceptable on all recreational boats

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Office of Boating Safety
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Type IV Device

• Designed to be thrown, not worn
• Must have as an additional device for boats 16
  feet or longer

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Manufactures Association
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Type V Flotation Device

• Special use must be worn whenever vessel is
  underway to be legal
  
• Hybrid buoyant and inflatable
• Expensive
• OLD ones must be worn while underway
• Available as Type I, II III counterparts

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Manufactures Association
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Life Jackets

• Legal requirements
• Coast Guard approved
• One on board for each person
• Readily accessible
• Type IV must be at hand

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Life Jackets

• General considerations
• Practice getting into water wearing a life
  jacket
  
• Non-swimmers wear all the time when aboard
• Inspect lifesaving equipment frequently

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Courtesy of Personal Flotation Device
Manufactures Association
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Life Jackets

• Care
• Store in well-ventilated place
• Do not use as a cushion or fender
• Check covers for breakdown
• Check condition of straps and hardware
• For inflatablesfollow manufacturers
  recommendations
  
• Do not store in original wrapping

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Sound Producing Devices

• Installed power horns
• Portable air horns
• Whistle
• Hailer
• Bell
• Vessels over 39.4 feet

Reprinted with permission from Federal
Requirements Safety Tips for Recreational Boats
U.S. Coast Guard Office of Boating Safety
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Visual Distress Signals

• Day Night
• Pyrotechnic Non-pyrotechnic
• Coastal waters Inland waters

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Requirements Safety Tips for Recreational Boats
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VDS Non-Pyrotechnic

• Day
• Night

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Requirements Safety Tips for Recreational Boats
U.S. Coast Guard Office of Boating Safety
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VDS Pyrotechnic

• Daytime
• Smoke
• Dye
• Night time
• Hand held flares
• Aerial flares
• Remember
• Keep dry
• Use only when can be seen

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Requirements Safety Tips for Recreational Boats
U.S. Coast Guard Office of Boating Safety
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Marine Sanitation Devices (MSD)

• Must be Coast Guard certified type I, II, or III
  (A B)
  
• Look for pump out station symbol

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Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacon
(EPIRB)

• What are advantages

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Additional Equipment

• Anchor and line
• Spare parts and tool kit
• Compass and charts
• Radio, VHF-FM marine
• Docking lines
• First aid kit
• Water for emergencies
• Flashlight
• Spare bulbs

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Skippers Responsibilities

• Responsible for
• Safety of crew
• Safety of boat
• Damage from your wake
• Remember the 3 Cs
• Caution
• Courtesy
• Common sense

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Requirements Safety Tips for Recreational Boats
U.S. Coast Guard Office of Boating Safety
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Alcohol and Drugs

• What are the effects when boating?

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Speed Regulations

• Safe speed on water

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State and Local Regulations

• PWC regulations
• Which ones to be familiar with

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Law Enforcement / Homeland Security

• Boardings
• Homeland Security
• 1-877-24-WATCH

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Pollution Control

• Oil Pollution Act
• Discharge of Oil Placard

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Dumping Regulations
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