Large Fishing Vessel Inspection Regulations — 24
24 (1) A seine skiff shall not be considered as being life saving equipment unless it is ordinarily used in a vessel’s fishing operations. (2) Where the weight of a lifeboat, boat, dory or skiff exceeds 1 525 kg, davits shall be substituted for cranes. (3) Every fishing vessel not more than 33.5 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) one approved lifebuoy fitted with 27 m of line; (c) one approved lifebuoy fitted with a self-igniting light that cannot be extinguished by water; (d) in the case of a vessel the keel of which was laid on or after January 6, 1965, the equipment described in one of the following subparagraphs: (i) one or more boats or dories of sufficient capacity to accommodate all persons on board, so stowed under approved single arm crane-type davits that they can readily be placed in the water on either side of the vessel, and life rafts of sufficient capacity to accommodate, (A) if the vessel makes voyages other than inland voyages and goes beyond the limits of home-trade Class III voyages, 75 per cent of the persons on board, or (B) if the vessel makes voyages other than voyages described in clause (A), half the number of persons on board, (ii) one or more boats or dories on each side of the vessel, of sufficient capacity to accommodate all persons on board, stowed under oridinary davits or approved single arm crane-type davits, and life rafts of sufficient capacity to accommodate, (A) if the vessel makes voyages other than inland voyages and goes beyond the limits of home-trade Class III voyages, 75 per cent of the persons on board, or (B) if the vessel makes voyages other than voyages described in clause (A), half the number of persons on board, (iii) a boat, dory or seine skiff of sufficient capacity to accommodate at least half the number of persons on board, and in no case less than four persons, stowed under an approved single arm crane-type davit or a set of ordinary davits or a boom in the case of seine skiffs, and at least one life raft of sufficient capacity to accommodate all persons on board, (iv) a boat, dory or seine skiff not less than 5.5 m in length and capable of being placed in the water on either side of the vessel by means of an approved single arm crane-type davit or a boom in the case of a seine skiff, and (A) where the boat, dory or seine skiff is capable of accommodating at least half the number of persons on board there shall also be carried one or more life rafts of sufficient capacity to accommodate all persons on board, or (B) where the boat, dory or seine skiff is not capable of accommodating at least half the number of persons on board, there shall also be carried a life raft that together with the boat, dory or seine skiff will accommodate 150 per cent of the total number of persons on board, or (v) 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 equal-sized life rafts which lifeboat and life rafts collectively shall be capable of accommodating double the total number of persons on board; and (e) subject to subsection (4), in the case of a vessel the keel of which was laid before September 8, 1966, the equipment described in paragraph (d) or in one of the following subparagraphs: (i) one or more approved Class 1 lifeboats of sufficient capacity to accommodate all persons on board the vessel, so stowed that they can be readily placed in the water on either side of the vessel, (ii) 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, (iii) one or more dories of sufficient capacity to accommodate all persons on board the vessel, so