"Charlie Morgan" wrote in message
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On Thu, 1 Mar 2007 09:37:03 -0500, "Wilbur Hubbard"
wrote:

A friend of mine has a sailboat that's about fifteen meters in length.
The other day his vessel was the subject of a USCG safety check. Among
a
couple other things, he got written up for not having a bell. He had a
whistle. The citation said he was in violation of Rule 33(a) which
says
the boat is required to have a whistle and a bell. I told him to fight
it because the citation won't stand up in court. Why am I right?

Wilbur Hubbard

Bell is required for vessels 20 meters in length, or more.


Are you su

Rule 33
Equipment for Sound Signals
(a) A vessel of 12 meters or more in length shall be provided with a
whistle and a bell and a vessel of 100 meters or more in length shall,
in addition be provided with a gong, the tone and sound of which cannot
be confused with that of the bell. The whistle, bell and gong shall
comply with the specifications in Annex III to these Regulations. The
bell or gong or both may be replaced by other equipment having the same
respective sound characteristics, provided that manual sounding of the
prescribed signals shall always be possible.
(b) A vessel of less than 12 meters in length shall not be obliged to
carry the sound signaling appliances prescribed in paragraph (a) of this
Rule but if she does not, she shall be provided with some other means of
making an efficient signal.

Wilbur Hubbard