SAFETY
Navigation Lights
Navigation lights are intended to keep other vessels
informed of your presence and course. If you are operating
your boat between sunset and sunrise, you are required to
display appropriate navigation lights.
Visual Distress Signals
U.S. Coast Guard regulations require all recreational boats
be equipped with visual, distress signal equipment. The
regulations apply to boats used on coastal waters, which
includes the Great Lakes, territorial seas and those waters
directly connected to the Great Lakes and the territorial
seas, up to a point where the waters are less than two
miles (3.2 km) wide, and to boats owned in the United
States when operating on the high seas.
Visual distress signal equipment may be of the pyrotechnic
or non-pyrotechnic type. The equipment must be approved
by the U.S. Coast Guard, be in serviceable condition, and
be stowed in a readily accessible location. Equipment
having a date for serviceable life must be within the
specified usage date shown. Careful selection and proper
stowage of visual distress equipment is very important
especially if young children are aboard.
No one signaling device is ideal under all conditions or for
all purposes. Consider carrying various types of equipment
on board. Approved pyrotechnic visual distress signals and
associated equipment include red flares, hand-held or
aerial; orange smoke, hand-held or floating; and launchers
for aerial red meteors or parachute flares. Approved non-
pyrotechnic equipment includes orange distress flags and
electric distress lights.
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