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Flotation
Subpart F - Flotation Requirements for
Inboards, Inboard/Outdrive, and Airboats
FEDERAL LAW
183.101 - Applicability
This subpart applies to monohull inboard
boats, inboard/outdrive boats, and airboats less than
20 feet in length, except sailboats, canoes, kayaks,
inflatable boats, submersibles, surface effect vessels,
amphibious vessels, and raceboats. |
Discussion:
Monohull inboard, inboard/outboard boats and airboats less
than 20 feet in length must comply with a flotation system
called Basic Flotation. Basic
Flotation contains the requirements and tests. Basic flotation
is the simplest type of flotation mode covered in this regulation.
It simply requires that the boat be manufactured with sufficient
flotation material to keep it afloat in the event of a swamping.
It does not, however, require that the boat remain in an upright
or indeed any specific position. It may float, and usually
does, in a “spar” position, the bow sticking up
and the stern sunk. The requirements include some materials
tests. Basic Flotation covers this type of flotation.
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