Next message: Jeff Laws: "RE: Re(2): lv-ab: falling overboard in the slip"
writes:
>>That's to bad, In Canada boats with freeboard greater than 0.5
>meters must
>>by law be equiped with a boarding lader that is accesible
>(activitatable) by
>>the person in the water!
>>
>>
>So does that mean that we would have to retrofit our boat if we came
>to Canada? Our swim ladder folds up and the dink on the davits keeps
>it from being pulled down without also letting the dink down into the
>water.
The answer is YES! This is a new rule since 1999 and a darn good
one.
I've been in the water and unable to pull myself up without help from
neighbours. I now have a swimladder I can pull down from the water
while swimming and also installed a short ladder made from 2X4's on
my finger (in four years I've not used it but some neighbours have -
oddly enough late at night :-) )
George - liveaboard on Scaramouche in CANADA.
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