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Glastron Boats: Radar is an excellent means of marine navigation and is used on vessels of all sizes, down to glastron boats of about twenty feet in length. Although not installed on all recreational glastron 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 glastron 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 glastron boats are listed briefly here.See Also Used Boat Motors:Fueling Precautions
Certain precautions must be carefully and completely observed every time a used Boat motors is fueled with gasoline. Step by step, these are:
BEFORE FUELING
1. Fuel before dark whenever possible. Make sure that the used Boat motors is securely made fast to the fueling pier.
2. Stop engines, motors, fans, and other devices capable of producing a spark. Open the master switch if the electrical system has one. Put out all cigarettes, galley fires, and open flames.
3. Close all ports, windows, doors, and hatches so that fumes cannot blow on board and below.
4. Make sure all passengers and any crewmembers not needed for the fueling operation disembark before you begin fueling.
5. Prohibit all smoking on board and in the vicinity.
6. Have a fire extinguisher close at hand.
7. Measure the fuel in the tanks and do not order more than the tank will hold. Allow for expansion.
8. When fueling a used Boat motors with an outboard motor, remove any portable tanks and fill them on shore.
used Boat motors-to-used Boat motors calls. When you hear your used Boat motors called, put your transmitter on the air and say: "(Name of used Boat motors that called), this is (name of your used Boat motors), over." Switch to the agreed-upon inter-ship working channel. After the conversation is completed, say: "This is (name of your used Boat motors), out."
Shore-to-ship calls. When you hear the name of your used Boat motors called, put your transmitter on the air and say: "(Name of station that called), this is (name of your used Boat motors and call sign), over." After the conversation is completed, say: "This is (name of your used Boat motors), out."
On The Other Hand See G3 Boats:There are two electronic navigation systems available to skippers of g3 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 g3 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 g3 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. g3 boats operating on inland waters should have some means of making a suitable day and night distress signals.
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