Comments on: Lessons from Buttermilk Channel http://thefreeseas.org/?p=294 mare liberum / free seas boat building collektiv Wed, 08 Sep 2010 13:52:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: ELIZABETH WEINBERG PHOTOGRAPHY: BLOG - boats. http://thefreeseas.org/?p=294#comment-3574 ELIZABETH WEINBERG PHOTOGRAPHY: BLOG - boats. Thu, 30 Jul 2009 19:08:52 +0000 http://thefreeseas.org/?p=294#comment-3574 [...] Read all about our boat’s maiden voyage to Governors Island for City of Water Day (and her sub... She’ll be back up and running soon! [...] [...] Read all about our boat’s maiden voyage to Governors Island for City of Water Day (and her sub… She’ll be back up and running soon! [...]

]]> By: bonnie http://thefreeseas.org/?p=294#comment-3471 bonnie Thu, 23 Jul 2009 15:19:52 +0000 http://thefreeseas.org/?p=294#comment-3471 Everyone got home safe & some lessons learned, good stuff. Still, can't help pointing out, when you say "Enough pfd’s, plenty of line, a spare oar and a civilian band radio are not at all bad things to have along" - A properly fitting PFD for every person on the boat isn't just "not at all a bad idea", it's one of the minimum legal requirements for any boat that's operating anywhere on our nation's navigable waterways (and that includes the Gowanus). If you knew that, great, sorry to be a buttinsky. If not, you can read more about the regs on the Coast Guard's Safe Boating site - http://www.uscgboating.org/SAFETY/fedreqs/equipment.htm . Or you could just contact the local Coast Guard Auxiliary & ask if they could send a couple of people to do a vessel safety check for you - they are usually happy to help out & it's not at all a bad idea to have them look things over for you. Everyone got home safe & some lessons learned, good stuff. Still, can’t help pointing out, when you say “Enough pfd’s, plenty of line, a spare oar and a civilian band radio are not at all bad things to have along” -

A properly fitting PFD for every person on the boat isn’t just “not at all a bad idea”, it’s one of the minimum legal requirements for any boat that’s operating anywhere on our nation’s navigable waterways (and that includes the Gowanus).

If you knew that, great, sorry to be a buttinsky.

If not, you can read more about the regs on the Coast Guard’s Safe Boating site - http://www.uscgboating.org/SAFETY/fedreqs/equipment.htm . Or you could just contact the local Coast Guard Auxiliary & ask if they could send a couple of people to do a vessel safety check for you - they are usually happy to help out & it’s not at all a bad idea to have them look things over for you.

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