Safety: A Check-list of Required Gear
Navigation and Safety Equipment Items
Entries must have all the navigation and safety equipment on the Check List
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Charts
- Canadian Hydrographic Service Chart Atlas #3313
- Tide tables, light lists,
and sailing directions for each day’s race will be provided
by the race committee for each skipper.
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Navigation and Control
- Iluminated compass
- One (1) pair of oars plus one spare oar
- Handheld GPS receiver
- Handheld VHF
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Navigational lighting
- All-round white light
- Red/green side lights
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Anchoring and Mooring
- 8-lb Danforth anchor or equiv.
- 100 ft. x .5 inch nylon anchor rode
- Two 25 ft .5 inch polypropylene mooring ropes
- Fenders
- Bow eye or towing point
- Clothes line
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Convenience lighting
- Good quality waterproof flashlight
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Bilge
- Hand-operated bilge pump or bailing device
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Emergency
- First aid kit
- Floating waterproof flashlight
- Six hand-held flares
- Sound-signaling device (aerosol horn, whistle, etc.)
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Lifesaving
- Lifejacket that fits for every person aboard
- Boarding ladder (if freeboard is over 20 inches)
- Rescue throw bag
- Thermal survival blanket