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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 - 7.21 Survival Craft and Rescue Boats to be Carried:

7.21 Survival Craft and Rescue Boats to be Carried:

Survival Craft

(1) Passenger Yachts to which this Code applies, shall carry survival craft in accordance with Annex 3.

(2) Where lifeboats are required in accordance with Annex 3, A Passenger Yacht shall carry -

  • (a) subject to subparagraph 7.21(2)(b), partially or totally enclosed lifeboats on each side of such aggregate capacity as will accommodate not less than 50% of the total number of persons on board;

  • (b) the Administration may permit the substitution of lifeboats by liferafts of equivalent total capacity provided that there shall never be less than sufficient lifeboats on each side of the ship to accommodate 37.5% of the total number of persons on board;

  • (c) the inflatable or rigid liferafts shall be served by launching appliances equally distributed on each side of the ship; and

  • (d) in addition, inflatable or rigid liferafts of such aggregate capacity as will accommodate at least 25% of the total number of persons on board or sufficient liferafts such that in the event of any one survival craft being lost or rendered unserviceable, sufficient aggregate capacity remains on each side of the ship to accommodate 50% of the total number of persons on board, whichever is the greater;

  • (e) the liferafts in subsection 7.21(2)(d) shall be served by at least one launching appliance on each side which may be those provided in compliance with the requirements of subsection 7.21(2)(c) or equivalent approved appliances capable of being used on both sides.

(3) For vessels carrying Davit Launched Life Rafts (DLLRs) or a combination of DLLRs and Marine Evacuation Systems (MESs) the following shall apply-

  • (e) MESs are not permitted as the sole means of abandonment and in this regard the aggregate capacity of DLLRs each side of the ship shall be sufficient for not less than 100% of the total persons on board;

  • (f) in the event of the loss of any one survival craft there shall be at least 100% capacity remaining on either side; and

  • (g) in all cases dry shod evacuation shall be required.

  • (h) DLLR are permitted as the sole means of abandonment

(4) Any Passenger Yacht to which this Code applies which operates in the Polar Regions shall carry life-saving appliances in accordance with the IMO Guidelines for Polar Regions as per sub-section 3.1(g).

(5) A passenger Yacht of less than 500 gross tonnage which carries less than 200 persons may, under SOLAS Chapter III, Part B, Section II, Regulation 21.1-1.4, carry 300% (150% each side) inflatable or rigid liferafts complying with sections 4.2 or 4.3 of Chapter IV of the LSA Code providing other applicable provisions of the relevant Conventions are complied with.

Rescue Boats

(6) Ships of 500 gross tonnage and over shall carry at least one rescue boat on each side of the ship.

(7) Ships of less than 500 gross tonnage shall carry at least one rescue boat.

(8) A lifeboat may be accepted as a rescue boat provided it also complies with the requirements for a rescue boat.

Parent topic: Chapter 7 - Life-Saving Appliances and Arrangements
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