Evinrude 4906B 4HP 1969 Owner's Manual page 16

and with passengers
One restriction is that the total weight of
the motor, passengers,
aboard does not exceed the maximum load
capacity listed on the plate.
Life Preservers -Personal
(PFDs)
The Coast Guard requires
Coast Guard approved life-saving
carried on board all motorboats
person on board.
identified by a tag indicating
approval. Such devices may be life preserv-
ers, buoyant vests, ring buoys, or buoyant
cushions. Cushions used for seating
serviceable if air cannot be squeezed out of
it. Once air is released when the cushion is
squee zed, it is no longer fit as a flota tion
device. New foam cushions dipped in a
rubberized material
ible.
Life preservers have been classified by the
U.S. Coast Guard into five distinct categories.
PFDs presently acceptable on recreational boats
fall into one of these five designations. All PFDs
MUST be U.S. Coast Guard approved, in good
and serviceable condition, and of an appropriate
size for the persons who intend to wear them.
Wearable PFDs MUST be readily accessible and
throwable devices MUST be immediately avail-
able for use.
Type I PFD has the greatest
buoyancy and is designed
UNCONSCIOUS persons in the water from a
face down position to a vertical
backward posi tion,
provides a minimum buoyancy of 22 pounds
and the child size provides a minimum buoy-
ancyof 11 pounds. The Type I PFD provides
the greatest protection
most effective for all waters and conditions.
Type II PFD is designed to turn its wear-
er in a vertical or slightly backward position
in the water. The turning action is not as
pronounced as with a Type I.
will not turn as many different
under the same conditions as the Type I. An
adul t size device provides a minimum buoy-
ancy of 15Y2 pounds, the medium child size
provides a minimum of 11 pounds, and the
infant and small child sizes provide a min-
imum buoyancy of 7 pounds.
clinging to the hull.
and equipment
Flotation Devices
at least one
device be
for each
Devices approved are
Coast Guard
are
are almost indestruct-
required
to turn most
or slightly
The adul t size dev ice
to its wearer and is
The device
type persons
Type III PFD is designed to permit
wearer to place
vertical or slightly backward position.
Type III device has the same buoyancy as
the Type II PFD but it has little
turning ability. Many of the Type III PFD
are designed to be particularly
water skiing, sailing, hunting, fishing, or en-
gaging in other water sports.
type will also provide increased hypothermia
protection.
Type IV PFD is designed to be thrown to
a person in the water and grasped and held
by the user until rescued.
ed to be worn. The most common Type IV
PFD is a ring buoy or a buoyant cushion.
Type V PFD is any PFD approved
restricted use.
Coast Guard regulations state, in general
terms, that on all boats less than
overall, one Type I, II, III, or IV device shall
be carried on board for each person in the
boat. On boats over 26
III device shall be carried on board for each
person in the boat plus one Type IV device.
It is an accepted
people own life preservers,
actually wear them.
excuse for not wearing
modern comfortable
do not subtract from an individual's boating
pleasure. Make a life jacket
Type IV PFD ring buoy designed
ocean
cruisers, this type device usually has
pole with flag, attached to
FLOTATION
himself (herself) in a
or no
useful when
Several of this
It is NOT design-
16 ft.
one Type I, II, or
f t.,
fact that most boating
but too few
There is little or no
one because
designs available today
available
to be thrown.
a
weighted
the buoy.
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the
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