Statutory Documents - MCA Publications - PYC - A Code of Practice for Yachts Carrying 13 to 36 Passengers (The Passenger Yacht Code) - Chapter 2 - Load Lines - 2.8 Miscellaneous Openings in Freeboard and Superstructure Decks:
2.8 Miscellaneous Openings in Freeboard and Superstructure Decks:
(1) Openings in freeboard and superstructure decks shall be designed to comply with Regulation 18 of the Load Line Convention.
(2) Where compliance with subsection (1) proves impracticable alternative arrangements for closure and coaming heights may be considered subject to the vessel being able to comply with the enhanced survivability standard in section 4.30 with the space or spaces to which the opening leads flooded.
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