Statutory Documents - MCA Publications - PYC - A Code of Practice for Yachts Carrying 13 to 36 Passengers (The Passenger Yacht Code) - Chapter 7 - Life-Saving Appliances and Arrangements - 7.8 Survival Craft and Rescue Boat Embarkation Arrangements:
7.8 Survival Craft and Rescue Boat Embarkation Arrangements:
(1) Survival craft embarkation arrangements shall be designed for-
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(a) all lifeboats to be boarded and launched either directly from the stowed position or from an embarkation deck but not both; and
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(b) davit-launched liferafts to be boarded and launched from a position immediately adjacent to the stowed position or from a position to which, in compliance with the requirements of section 7.3(5), the liferaft is transferred prior to launching.
(2) Rescue boat arrangements shall be such that the rescue boat can be boarded and launched directly from the stowed position with the number of persons assigned to crew the rescue boat on board.
(3) Notwithstanding the requirements of paragraph (a) of subsection (1), if the rescue boat is also a lifeboat and the other lifeboats are boarded and launched from an embarkation deck, the arrangements shall be such that the rescue boat can also be boarded and launched from the embarkation deck.
(4) The stowage height of a survival craft shall take into account the requirements of section 7.3.(1) (b), the escape provisions of Chapter 6, section 6.11, the size of the ship, and the weather conditions likely to be encountered in the vessel’s intended area of operation; for davit-launched survival craft, the height of the davit head with the survival craft in embarkation position, shall, as far as practicable, not exceed 15 metres to the waterline when the ship is in its lightest seagoing condition.
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