Instruction manual

PROFICIENCY IN SURVIVAL CRAFT AND RESCUE BOATS OTHER THAN

FAST RESCUE BOATS

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Each engine or motor in a fast rescue boat must stop automatically or be

stopped by the helmsman's emergency release switch should the boat capsize.

When the boat has righted, each engine or motor must be capable of being

restarted, provided the helmsman's emergency release, if fitted, has been reset.

Arrangements for towing must be permanently fitted in fast rescue boats

and should be sufficiently strong to marshal or tow life-rafts.

A fast rescue boat must be fitted with weather tight stowage for small items

of equipment.

If a fast rescue boat is stowed on a ship, a disengaging gear must be fitted.

b) Fast rescue boat equipment

All items of fast rescue boat equipment, with the exception of boat-hooks

which should be kept free for fending off purposes, must be secured within the

rescue boat by lashings, storage in lockers or compartments, storage in brackets

or similar mounting arrangements, or other suitable means. The equipment must

be secured in such a manner as not to interfere with any launching or recovery

procedures. All items of fast rescue boat equipment must be as small and of as

little mass as possible and must be packed in suitable and compact form.

The normal equipment of every fast rescue boat must consist of:

(a) sufficient buoyant oars or paddles to make headway in calm seas. Thole pins,

crutches or equivalent arrangements must be provided for each oar and be

attached to the boat by lanyards or chains;

(b) a buoyant bailer;

suitable means of illumination;

(d) a sea-anchor with a hawser of adequate strength not less than 10 meters in

length;

(e) a painter of sufficient length and strength, attached to the release device and

placed at the forward end of the fast rescue boat;

(f) one buoyant line, not less than 50 meters in length, of sufficient strength to

tow a life-raft;

(g) one waterproof electric torch suitable for Morse signaling, together with one

spare set of batteries and one spare bulb in a waterproof container;

(h) one whistle or equivalent sound signal;

(i) a first-aid outfit;

(j) two buoyant rescue quoits, attached to not less than 30 meters of buoyant

line;

(k) a searchlight capable of effectively illuminating a light-colored object at night

having a width of 18 meters at a distance of 180 meters for a total period of 6

hours and of working for at least 3 hours continuously;

(l) unless a radar transponder is stowed in the fast rescue boat, an efficient radar

reflector;