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

• Charts

  1. Canadian Hydrographic Service Chart Atlas #3313
  2. Tide tables, light lists,
     and sailing directions for each day’s race will be provided
     by the race committee for each skipper.

• Navigation and Control

  1. Iluminated compass
  2. One (1) pair of oars plus one spare oar
  3. Handheld GPS receiver
  4. Handheld VHF

• Navigational lighting

  1. All-round white light
  2. Red/green side lights

• Anchoring and Mooring

  1. 8-lb Danforth anchor or equiv.
  2. 100 ft. x .5 inch nylon anchor rode
  3. Two 25 ft .5 inch polypropylene mooring ropes
  4. Fenders
  5. Bow eye or towing point
  6. Clothes line

• Convenience lighting

  1. Good quality waterproof flashlight

• Bilge

  1. Hand-operated bilge pump or bailing device

• Emergency

  1. First aid kit
  2. Floating waterproof flashlight
  3. Six hand-held flares
  4. Sound-signaling device (aerosol horn, whistle, etc.)

• Lifesaving

  1. Lifejacket that fits for every person aboard
  2. Boarding ladder (if freeboard is over 20 inches)
  3. Rescue throw bag
  4. Thermal survival blanket