Owner`s manual

Chapter 1
1-4
Sport Boat
Personal Flotation Devices
Federal law also requires at least one Type I, II, III or V Personal Flotation
Device (PFD) for each person on board or being towed, and at least one
Type IV throwable PFD in the boat.
PFDs are intended to help save lives. Therefore, you and your passengers
should wear a PFD whenever boating. It is especially important that
children and nonswimmers wear a PFD at all times. Make certain all
passengers know how to put on and properly adjust their PFDs. Also,
selecting the proper type PFD for your kind of outing helps ensure your
time on the water can be the safest possible. There are four types of PFDs
to wear and one type used for throwing in emergency situations.
MINIMUM REQUIRED SAFETY EQUIPMENT
PERSONAL
FLOTATION
DEVICES (PFDs)
FIRE
EXTINGUISHER
(Must say Coast
Guard Approved.)
DAY AND NIGHT
VISUAL DISTRESS
SIGNALS
CLASS 1
4.8 to less than 7.9 m
(16 to less than 26 ft)
CLASS 2
7.9 to less than 12.2 m
(26 to less than 40 ft)
CLASS 3
12.2 to not more than 19.8 m
(40 to not more than 65 ft)
One approved Type I, II, III or V (if used according to Coast Guard requirements) device
aboard for each person on board or being towed on water skis, etc.; and, in addition, one
throwable Type IV device.
Orange flag with black square-and-disk (day); and an S-O-S electric light (night); or three
orange smoke signals, hand held or floating (day); or three red flares of hand held, meteor,
or parachute type (day/night).
Required only on coastal waters, the Great Lakes, territorial seas, and those waters connected
directly to them, up to a point where a body of water is less than two miles wide.
Every vessel less than 12 meters
(39.4 ft) in length must carry an
efficient sound producing device.
Every vessel 12 meters (39.4 ft) but less than 20
meters (65.6 ft) in length must carry a whistle or horn
and a bell. The whistle or horn must be audible for 1/2
nautical mile. The mouth of the bell must be at least
200 mm (7.87 in) in diameter.
KC-0081.2
At least one B-I type approved hand
portable fire extinguisher (Not
required on outboard motorboats less
than 26 feet in length and not carrying
passengers for hire if the construction
of such motorboats will not permit
entrapment of explosive or flammable
gasses or vapors and if fuel tanks are
not permanently installed.)
WHISTLE/HORN,
BELL
EQUIPMENT
At least two B-I type
approved portable fire
extinguishers; OR at
least one B-II type ap-
proved portable fire
extinguisher.
At least three B-I type
approved portable fire
extinguishers; OR at
least one B-I type plus
one B-II type approved
portable fire extinguisher.
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