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2.1 SAFETY RULES
Your yacht has been designed paying the utmost attention to all aspects re-
garding your safety and the safety of your guests. However, all personnel on
board must be instructed and aware about some precautions to be adopted
at all times.
For this purpose, it is advisable that all people on board carefully read the
guidelines contained in this manual, as well as the signs installed on the
yacht and, in particular, all safety notices.
The time spent in reading such instructions will prevent unpleasant acci-
dents.
Remember that you are responsible for your safety and the safety of your
passengers, and that you may jeopardize the safety of other yachts.
Please make sure you are perfectly aware of the main safety rules:
DANGER
Only the personnel having a regular license or the necessary qualica-
tions can steer this yacht.
Personnel operating the yacht must not be under the inuence of alcohol,
drugs or narcotics.
• During normal operation or any activities on the yacht, keep passage-
ways and escape routes in proper conditions, in order to avoid hazards
to people’s safety;
• Always perform regular inspections of hull conditions, power system,
safety equipment, and systems on a regular basis;
• Always check the fuel level before cruising and compare the tanks’ ca-
pacity with the engines’ consumption and the length and the expected
type of cruise;
• Check the expected weather conditions in your cruising area;
• In any case, always act according to common sense.
Safety is also “in the hands” of all those on board, who should be instructed
and aware of some precautions to be adopted all times:
• Move carefully around the yacht because its stability may be suddenly
affected by the sea waves;
• Persons on board must know the location of life jackets for accommo-
dation, as you wear and the location of re extinguishers (see safety
equipment) and of the life raft;
• All passengers must be aware of the risks caused by the res and the
correct way to proceed in the event a re should occur;
• The engine room must be properly ventilated when the engines are run-
ning;
• Everybody on board must be able to release and launch the life buoy and
the life raft at sea;
• Access to the engine room must be allowed only to authorized person-
nel, aware of possible dangers like:
- Moving mechanical parts;
- Hot parts and components;
- Circuits with pressurized, hot or irritating uids;
- Circuits with ammable uids;
- High noise when engines are running;
- Possibility to shift important valves for navigation safety unintentionally.
• It is the responsibility of the owner / user to have at least a baler / a board
bucket, xed so as to prevent accidental loss.
DANGER
It is strictly forbidden to stay on weather decks without railings (i.e. aft
platform) during navigation.