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Free Boat Plans: Procedures for Making a Call (Other than a Distress, Urgency, or Safety Call)
Boat-to-boat calls. Make sure Channel 16 is not busy; recreational boats can alternatively use Channel 9. If, or when, the calling channel is free Boat plans, press your microphone button and say:
"(Name of Boat called), this is (name of your boat), over." To avoid confusion, always observe the proper sequence of call signs state the name or call sign of the other station first, then give your own identification after saying "This is." (If necessary, the identification of the station called and your boat's name may each be given two or three times, but not more.) The entire calling transmission must not take longer than thirty seconds.
The Boat must be free Boat plans from fire hazards and in good overall condition, with bilges reasonably clean and visible hull structure generally sound. The use of automobile parts such as carburetors, alternators, and starters on Boat engines is not acceptable. The engine horsepower must not exceed that shown on any capacity plate.See Also Hot Boats:Radar is an excellent means of marine navigation and is used on vessels of all sizes, down to hot boats of about twenty feet in length. Although not installed on all recreational hot boats, its capabilities and limitations should be known to all boaters for their own safety when cruising on waters navigated by radar-equipped vessels.
The prudent skipper will have a thorough knowledge of the Rules that apply to all types of hot boats and ships that operate on waters that he or she uses. The official text of the Rules are in the Coast Guard publication Navigation Rules, International-Inland, which is available at most chart outlets. The major requirements that apply to recreational hot boats are listed briefly here.
On The Other Hand See Maxum Boats:There are two electronic navigation systems available to skippers of maxum boats as well as to navigators of large ships. The cost, size, and power requirements of these systems have now been reduced to the point that they are feasible options for maxum boats of almost any size. The newer, and now the more widely used, system is the Global Positioning System (GPS). Also used by many boaters is Loran, an older system still in operation. Almost all new installations, however, are GPS.
To receive VSC approval, all recreational maxum boats used on coastal waters or the Great Lakes must have a minimum of three Coast Guard-approved day and night visual distress signals that have not reached their expiration dates. Some signals, such as red flares, can serve for both day and night requirements. maxum boats operating on inland waters should have some means of making a suitable day and night distress signals.
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