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7. Minimum Safety Equipment Required for the Size and Type of your Pleasure Craft
8. Sail and powered pleasure craft over 12 m and up to 24 m (39'4"- 78'9")

Sail and powered pleasure craft over 12 m and up to 24 m (39'4"- 78'9")

Personal Lifesaving Appliances

1. One (1) Canadian-approved personal flotation device or lifejacket of appropriate size for each person on board

2. One (1) buoyant heaving line at least than 15 m (49’3”) long

3. One (1) lifebuoy equipped with a self-igniting light or attached to a buoyant line at least 15 m (49’3”) long

4. One (1) reboarding device

Note: A reboarding device is only required if the vertical height that must be climbed to reboard the pleasure craft from the water is over 0.5 m (1’8”). 

 

Visual Signals

5. One (1) watertight flashlight

6. Twelve (12) Canadian-approved flares of Type A (Rocket Parachute), B (Multi-Star), C (Hand), or D (smoke signals)

Note:

1. Not more than six (6) of which are of Type D (smoke signals).
          
2. Flares are not required for a pleasure craft that:
   • Is operating on a river, canal or lake in which it can never be more than one (1) nautical mile (1.852 km) from shore; or
   • Has no sleeping quarters and is engaged in an official competition or in final preparation for an official competition.

Vessel Safety Equipment

7. One (1) anchor and at least 50 m (164’1”) of cable, rope or chain in any combination

8. Bilge-pumping arrangements

Navigation equipment

9. Sound-signalling appliances that meets the requirements set out in the Collision Regulations

Note: pleasure craft over 20 m (65’7”) in length require a whistle (horn), and a fitted bell.

10. Navigation lights that meet the requirements set out in the Collision Regulations

You can learn more about the requirements for your pleasure craft by consulting the navigation lights section of the Safe Boating Guide

11. One (1) magnetic compass that meets the requirements of the Navigation Safety Regulations

• See Part 2 of the Regulations if your pleasure craft was built before July 1, 2002

OR

• See Part 3 of the Regulations if your pleasure craft was built on or after July 1, 2002

Firefighting Equipment

12. One (1) 10BC fire extinguisher at all of the following locations:

• at each access to any space where a fuel-burning cooking, heating or refrigerating appliance is fitted;
• at the entrance to any accommodation space; and
• at the entrance to the machinery space.

13. One (1) axe

14. Two (2) buckets

Note: Transport Canada recommends that each bucket have a capacity of at least 10 litres.

15. One (1) radar reflector is required under certain conditions

Date modified:

2010-05-13

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