Large Fishing Vessel Inspection Regulations — 24
f the vessel, and in addition, sufficient boats, dories, skiffs or approved life rafts to accommodate all persons on board the vessel, or (iii) dories of sufficient capacity to accommodate all persons on board the vessel, together with life rafts of sufficient capacity to accommodate all persons on board. (6) Every vessel (a) equipped in accordance with subparagraph (5)(e)(i) shall, if the vessel makes voyages other than inland voyages and goes beyond the limit of home-trade Class III voyages, carry life rafts of sufficient capacity to accommodate 75 per cent of the persons on board; and (b) equipped in accordance with subparagraph (5)(e)(ii) shall include in its equipment approved life rafts of sufficient capacity to accommodate all persons on board. (7) Every fishing vessel more than 44.2 m in length shall carry (a) one approved lifejacket for each person on board the vessel; (a.1) one approved immersion suit for each member of the complement if the vessel makes voyages other than home-trade voyages, Class IV and minor waters voyages, Class II; (b) two approved lifebuoys each fitted with 27 m of line; (c) two approved lifebuoys each fitted with a self-igniting light that cannot be extinguished by water; and (d) the equipment described in one of the following subparagraphs: (i) one or more approved lifeboats on each side of the vessel, of sufficient capacity to accommodate all persons on board, of which one lifeboat may be a Class 2 lifeboat and the remainder shall be Class 1 and such lifeboats shall be stowed under separate ordinary davits or approved single arm crane-type davits, and, if the vessel makes voyages other than inland voyages and goes beyond the limits of home-trade Class III voyages, life rafts of sufficient capacity to accommodate 75 per cent of the persons on board, (ii) a Class 1 lifeboat not less than 4.3 m in length stowed under ordinary davits or an approved single arm crane-type davit and two life rafts of equal size which lifeboat and rafts collectively shall be capable of accommodating double the total number of persons on board, or (iii) on each side of the vessel, one or more boats, dories or seine skiffs which shall (A) collectively be capable of accommodating all persons on board, (B) each be not less than 5.5 m in length, and (C) each be stowed under separate ordinary davits or approved single arm crane-type davits or a boom in the case of seine skiffs, and at least two life rafts of equal size each capable of accommodating half of all persons on board. (8) The number of persons that one lifeboat, boat, dory, skiff or life raft shall be deemed capable of carrying is (a) in the case of an approved lifeboat, boat or life raft, the number prescribed for that equipment in the Life Saving Equipment Regulations ; (b) in the case of a seine skiff of normal construction built in accordance with plans accepted by the Board and fitted with internal buoyance appliances of 0.0283 m 3 standard unit of capacity per person, the number determined in accordance with the following formula: N = (L × B × D) / 0.566 where N = number of persons, L = overall length in metres, B = maximum breadth in metres, at level of gunwale, to outside of plank, and D = the least vertical distance in metres measured from the top of the keel to the top of the gunwale or from the top of the keel to the lowest point of the transom, whichever is the smaller dimension; (c) in the case of a seine skiff of heavy construction that is built in accordance with plans accepted by the Board and is not fitted with internal buoyancy appliances, the number assigned to it by the Board; (d) in the case of a dory, the length of which is (i) 3.7 m, three persons, (ii) 4.3 m, four persons, (iii) 4.6 m, four persons, (iv) 4.9 m, five persons, (v) 5.2 m, five persons, (vi) 5.5 m, six persons, (vii) 5.8 m, six persons; and (e) in the case of a boat or skiff other than a boat or skiff described in paragraph (a), (b) or (c), the number determined in accordance