NLIN #35 - LOADING & CAPACITY

An item on our TV Local News this evening acted as a heads-up that USCG has changed the Loading and Capacity Plate formula. Why would they do that? Well as we know our persons are now heavier so instead of the average used being 150 lbs. it is now 185 lbs. Therefore the formula to use is:

Length x Breadth ÷ 18.5 = persons capacity

Now this becomes U.S. Law on December 01, 2011, however if you want to check that your boat capacity plate and your Load and Capacity Certificate will remain unchanged use the 185 lbs. One excurscion boat just inspected in the Florida Keys was certified for 100 persons, under the new formula that will be reduced to 86 persons. Being a rather serious reduction NAUTICAL LOG checked with a well known Instructor and he was kind enough to get back straight away confirming he uses 185 lbs.

Make sure always to wear your lifejackets regardless of the capacity and the number of persons actually on board. Safe boating is no accident.

Good watch.

Please remember the seafarers held captive by pirates off Somalia - let us work with India to free them.

Comments

PAINT LOCKER FIRES

The photographs above are revealing in several ways, lets have a look. Clearly the Japanese Maritime Self Defence Force (JMSDF) vessel JS "Kurama" impacted the Korean container ship MS "Carina Star" just aft of the turn of the fo'cs'le on the Starboard side. Please note that's the Starboard side, thus it appears JS "Kurama" would have shown "Carina Star" the red port sidelight and "Carina Star" would have shown JS "Kurama" the green starboard sidelight. This impact point would tend to suggest that JS "Kurama" was the 'stand-on' vessel and the MS "Carina Star" is the 'giving-way' vessel. Until there is a complete plot of the tracks made good of both these vessels and the position in the Kanmon Strait of the point of collision no determination can actually be made. As a result of this impact there was severe bow damage to JS "Kurama" and in addition a massive f

HOW TO WEAR A LIFEJACKET

A popular U.S.-based cruise ship style A popular European ferry style Several times during the year NAUTICAL LOG has had visitors searching for lifejacket instructions. With two just over Christmas we decided to publish something for everybody to see and read. Choose a Coast Guard approved life-jacket and make sure it is undamaged. Make sure life-jackets are readily accessible, never locked away. Check the fit, there are adult, child and infant sizes, the correct one MUST be used. Choose bright colour life-jackets so as to be seen easily by Search and Rescue (SAR). Put your life-jacket ON BEFORE you leave the berth. Make sure you have a light and whistle attached AND they BOTH WORK. Good Watch

BOUILLABAISSE

TAAF Service vessel operated by CMA CGM TAAF Regional flag Well now let us see if here at NAUTICAL LOG we have got a grasp on things simmering in the pot. It seems that when the anti-whaling campaign started out some years ago it was between Greenpeace, the Sea Shepherds and the Japanese whaling fleet. The Australians came down to their own Southern Ocean Territory in a chartered civilian vessel one year. Beyond taking photographs and returning some Sea Shepherds to their ship the MS "Steve Irwin" not much was accomplished. The Greenpeace crowd then dropped out and Animal Planet boarded the MS "Steve Irwin" to shoot 'reality TV' and so Whale Wars came into being. This resulted in some deplorable behaviour on all sides and some appalling exhibitions of seamanship - or rather total lack of seamanship by the Sea Shepherds. But now there was money coming in which could be spent on - well nobody really knows what the money is spent on. New Zealand made it q

NAUTICAL LOG

Search This Blog