Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1910-06-14
MOTOR BOAT
REGULATIONS OUT
Government Tells Owners
What They Must Do to
Observe Law

Collector of Customs Raymond to-
day received copies Of the new regu-
lations for motor boats. from the De-
partment of Commerce and Labor
Bureau Of Navigation, Washington.
Under the ruling the motor boat"
shall include every vessel propelled by
machinery and not more than sixty
five feet in length except tug boats
and tow boats propelled by steam
Motor boats subject to the pr5Ni-
sions of the act shall be divided into
classes as follows:
Glass one. Les than twenty-six feet
feet in length.
Class two Twenty-six feet or -er
and less than forty feet in length
Glass three. Forty feet or owe. aAd
not more than sixty-hve feet in
length.
Ever ymotor boat in al weathers
from sunset to sunrise shall carry the
following lights and during such tune
no other lights which may be mistaken
fer those prescribed shall be exhib-
ited.
(a) Every motor boat Of class one
shall carry the following lights:
First A white light aft to show all
around the horizon
Second. A combined lantern in the
fore part Of the vessel and lower than
the white light aft showing green TO
starboard and red to port, so fixed as
to throw the light from right ahead
to two points abaft the beam on their
respective sides.
% Every motor boat Of classes two
and three shall carry the following
lights
First. A bright white light I'm the
fore part of the vessel as near the
stea mas practicable. so constructed as
to show an unbrOken light over an
arc OF the horizon of twenty points Of
the compass. so fixed as to throw the
light ten points on each side Of the
vessel, namely. from right ahead to
two points abaft the beam on either
side. The glass or lens shall be of not
/ less than the following dimensions.
Glass two. Nineteen square inches.
class three. Thirty-one square
| inches
Second. A white light aft to show
al around the horizon.
Third. one the starpoard side a
green light so constructed as to show
an unbroken light over an arc Of tn
| horizon of ten points OF the compass
/ so fixed as to throw the light from
right ahead TO two points abaft the
beam on the starboard side on the
/ port side a red light so constructed
as 10 show an unbroken light over
an arc of the horizon Of ten points OF
( the compass, so fixed as to throw the
/ light from right ahead to two poin
abaft the beam on the port side. The
glasses or lenses in the said side
/ ligh,s shall be Of not less than the
| following dimensions on motor boats
Of
Glass two Sixteen square inches.
Glass three. Twenty square
inches.
on and after July first. nineteen
hundred and eleven, all glasses or
lenses prescribed by paragraph % OF
section three shall be fresnel or futed
The said lights shall be fitted with
inboard screens Of sufficient height and
so set as TO prevent these lights from
being sen across the bow and shall be
Of not less than the following dimen-
sions on motor boats Of
Class two. Eighteen inches long.
/ Glass three. Twenty inches
long:
Provided. That motor boats as de-
| fined in this Act. when propelled by
sail and machinery or under sail alone.
shall carry the colored lights suitably
/ screened but not the white lights pre-
! scribed by this section.
Every motor boat under the provi
sions Of this Act shall be provided
with a whistle or other sound produc-
/ ing mechanical appliance capable of
producing a blast of two seconds or
more in duration, and in the case Of
/ such boats so provided a blast of al
! least two seconds shall be deemed a
prolonged blast within the meaning OF
the law.
Oh Every motor boat Of class two
or three shall carry an efficient fog
horn.
Cc) Every motor boat Of class two
or three shall be provided with ar
efficient bel. which shall be not les.
than eight inches across the moutf
on board Of vessels of class three.
Every motor boat subject TO any
Of the provisions of this Act, and ais,
on vessels propelled by machiner,
other than by steam more than sixty.
five feet in length. shall carry eithei
life preservers. or life belts. or buoy
ant cushions, or ring buoys or othe
device to be prescribed hE thA sssnrA