Boating Skills and Seamanship

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Boating Skills and Seamanship

• Lesson 2
• Equipment For Your Boat

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Lesson Objectives

• Safety Equipment
• Require for the boat
• Desired but not required by law
• Legal responsibilities
• U.S. Coast Guard Zero Tolerance
• Dangers of substance abuse
• U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary VSC program

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Power Driven Vessels

• Must Be
• Documented
• U.S. Coast Guard
• Foreign travel
• U.S. Citizen
• Pleasure use only
• Registered Check State Laws

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Numbering of Vessels

• Registration
• Original must always be on-board
• Number is on registration certificate
• Permanently displayed on forward half of vessel
  on port and starboard side
• Clearly visible

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Registration Lettering

• Read left to right
• Proper spacing
• BLOCK letters and numbers

• 3 inches or greater
• Contrasting color to hull

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Hull Identification Number

• Transom

ABC 45678 A4 84
Manufactures I.D. Code
Hull Serial Number
Date of Certification (optional)
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Capacity/Compliance Plates

• Manufacturers are required to put compliance
  PLATES on motorboats less than 20 feet

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Ventilation Requirements

• Many fires/explosions caused by gasoline fumes in
  enclosed engine/fuel compartments
• Best detector Your NOSE!
• Exhaust fumes can cause carbon monoxide poisoning
  detectors are available

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Ventilation Requirements (cont)

• Natural ventilation uses ram effect of motion
• Powered ventilation uses blowers
• Table 2-1 specifies type required

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Natural Ventilation
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Power Ventilation
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Warning Label

• WARNING
• Gas vapors can explode. Before starting engine,
  operate blower for four minutes and check engine
  compartment bilge for gas vapors.

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Backfire Flame Arresters

• Required for inboard enclosed gasoline engines
• Avoids carburetor backfire
• Must be Coast Guard Approved or U 1 SAE type
• Must be kept clean

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Backfire Flame Arrester
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Carbon Monoxide

• Carbon Monoxide
• Primary source when boating
• Engines, especially generators
• Prevention
• Turn off engines when activities at stern
• Install detector
• Underway, change direction periodically if
  traveling with the wind

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Types of Fires

• A - WOOD, PAPER, CLOTH
• B OIL, GREASE, GASOLINE
• C - ELECTRICAL

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Types of Fire Extinguishers

• Carbon Dioxide
• Liquid flashes to cold gas snow
• Excludes Oxygen snuffs fire
• Can cause asphyxiation
• Dry Chemical
• Sodium Bicarbonate when heated decomposes,
  absorbs heat and releases CO2 steam

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Fire Extinguishers

• Must be Coast Guard approved
• Coast Guard Classification
• B-1
• B-11
• Indicates weight of agent and type of fire

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Types of Fire Extinguishers

• Halon
• Fixed systems
• Liquid flashes to gas that inhibits combustion
  chain reaction
• Can cause asphyxiation
• Can degrade stratospheric ozone

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Class B Extinguishers

• Coast Guard Class B-I B-II
• UL Listing 5B 10B
• Carbon Dioxide (lbs) 4 15
• Dry Chemical (lbs) 2 10
• Halon (lbs) 2.5 10

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Required of Extinguishers
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Fire Extinguishers

• All boats with inboard engines
• Enclosed living space
• Closed compartments where gas or
  combustible/flammable materials can be stored
• Permanent fuel tanks
• Length of 26 or more
• Some boats with double bottoms

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Life Jackets

• MUST be Coast Guard Approved
• Proper size
• Boats lt 16 feet
• One wearable for each person
• Boats gt 16 feet
• One wearable for each person
• One throwable for the boat

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Life Jackets (cont)

• Wearable life jackets
• Must be readily accessible
• Throwable cushions or rings
• Must be immediately available
• ALL LIFE JACKETS, CUSHIONS RINGS MUST BE IN
  SERVICEABLE CONDITION

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Life Jackets (cont)
Type I PFD
Type II PFD
Type III PFD
off shore life jacket
near-shore buoyant vest
flotation aid
Type IV PFD
Type V PFD
special use device
throwable devices
fully inflatable
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Type I Offshore Jacket

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

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Type II Near Shore Buoyant Vest

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

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Type III Flotation Aid

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

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Type IV Throwable

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

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Type V Special Use Hybrid

• Special use Must be worn whenever vessel is
  underway to be legal
• Hybrid Buoyant and Inflatable
• Expensive
• Old ones must be worn underway
• Available as Type I, II III counterparts

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Life Jacket Considerations

• Each person, especially children, should be
  assigned a jacket
• Jacket should fit and be adjusted
• Jackets need to be readily accessible
• Should be replaced if worn or damaged

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Sound Producing Devices

• Installed power horns
• Portable air horns
• Whistle
• Hailer

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Bell

• Required for all vessels 12 meters and over (39.4
  feet) under inland rules, or 20 meters (65)
  over under international rules.

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Visual Distress Signals

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

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VDS Non-Pyrotechnic
Day
Night
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VDS Pyrotechnic

• Daytime
• Smoke
• Dye
• Nighttime
• Hand Held Flares
• Aerial Flares
• Remember
• Keep dry - short burn time
• Use only when they might be seen

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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?
• Can be rented

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Other Equipment

• Desired but not required

paddle
Dewatering devices
VHF-FM radio
First aid kit
Tools spare parts
Anchors lines
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Skippers Duties

• Responsible for
• Safety of crew
• Safety of boat
• Damage from your wake
• Remember the 3 Cs
• Caution
• Courtesy
• Common Sense
• Good Samaritan Clause

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Accident Reports

• Required when
• A death is involved
• Person missing
• Injury requiring more than first aid
• Property damage exceeds 2,000 (State limit may
  still be 500)
• Reports used for collecting statistical data
• Not made public

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Pollution Control

• Navigable waters within 3 nm of shore
• Illegal to dump all garbage
• 3 12 nm offshore
• Illegal to dump garbage gt 1sq inch
• Up to 25 nm offshore
• Illegal to dump floatable packing, dunnage
  lining materials
• Anywhere
• Illegal to dump plastics

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Pollution Control

• Boats gt 26 ft must post placard that outlines
  restrictions

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Substance Abuse

• DONT

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Auxiliary Safety Checklist

• Numbering
• Life Jackets
• Fire Extinguishers
• Ventilation
• Backfire Flame Arrester
• Sound Producing Device
• Navigation Lights

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Auxiliary Safety Checklist (cont)

• Visual Distress Signals
• Fuel System
• Anchor with Line
• Paddle or Oar
• Manual Pump or Bailer
• Electrical Installation
• Galley Installation

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Summary

• Registration Documentation
• Numbering HIN
• Ventilation
• Required Equipment
• Desired Extra Equipment
• Skippers Duties
• Pollution Control
• Auxiliarys VSC Program