The Wrangell sentinel., 1942-05-15
Coast Guard
 Gives Rules On
 Boat Operation

as issued today by the local branch of the Coast Guard:
 All boats leaving port should have the proper Coast Guard license and all members Of the crew should ] have the proper Identification cards. j It is essential to your safety that l every boat report both coming in ] and going out of Wrangell harbor. ] Your boat may be tied up and your license revoked for not complying l with regulations Make a checkup ] before leaving the harbor. Wrangell 1 harbor limit is designated as from l graveyard point 10 just north of the ] tip of the Far West Cannery. i Identification cards are intended for the following:
 (al Men employed on [. S. ships i such as seamen, bargemen and fish i ermen;
 lb) Employees working on ships or at waterfront facilities in con- nection herewith such as long shoremen, checkers, watehmen and public servants;
 Gel Men having incidental bus mess on ships such as reporters, craftsmen. laborers, tradesmen and ] supervisors;
 (d) Employees on waterfront in l dustries such as shipyards, power plants. canneries and railways; (el Men making occasional or in- l cidental use of vessels or waterfront l facilities such as recreationists, sport fishermen and visitors; (f) Persons desiring entry to yes sels or waterfront areas whose identity is not established to the satisfaction of the issuing officer, or. whose photographs or fingerprints are not available;
 (g) Seamen on foreign ships, cit izens of enemy countries or counl tries cooperating with enemy coun tries (Norway, Belgium. Holland, Jugoslavia. Greece and Poland shall not be regarded as cooperating countries)
 Boat numbering or lettering should comply with the following regulations;
 1 A. All documented vessels Give 1 ton and over1 must have nine inch letters painted on the side in uni- | form manner.
 B. Regulations for the numbering | of undocumented vessels were al mended on April 22, 1922, by the addition of the following wartime regulations:
 For the duration of the war and six months thereafter every undocu mented motor vessel, which is re- quired to be numbered. and which is found on the navigable waters of the United States, shall have the number painted on it's structure in the following manner;
 | Gl The number awarded shall be painted horizontally in block char acters, reading from left to right, on each side of the vessel, as near the forward end as legibility of the entire number for surface and aer- ial Identification permits.
 @ The number shall be painted with paint which contrasts to the color of the hull, i.e., if the hull is :, dark the color of the numbers shall
 be light.
 (3) The number shall be painted parallel with the water line and the distance between the water line and 7 the bottom of the number shall not be less than the minimum height
 of the number. The height of the !, number shall be in accordance with the following scale; Length of vessel Hgt. of letters , Under 2O' 0" 6"-S" . Above 20' 0" and
 under 40' 10"
 Above 40' and
 under 60' IS" Over 60' 24" The width of the characters of , the numbers and the thickness of B the individual numbers will be in accordance with accepted engineer
 ing practices.
 (4) If the construction of the
 boat permits, the number shall also ? be painted on a conspicuous part ? of the top side for the purpose of 9 aerial Identification. The size of the |. individual numbers shall be in pro- l portionate ratio to the scale set l forth in the preceding paragraph. f (This does not mean on the air
 plane Identification signal)
 In the near future there will be
 report station on the end of the s last float just inside the breakwa- n ter on City float number two. This 8 report station will be open twenty r four hours a day for fishing vessels : reporting in and out of Wrangell Q harbor. This float is to be used ex. '- clusively by the Coast Guard. Until that time reporting to the Rendors