Trent - VHF, Nav lights and anchors -

[Gunna Do]

You also need an all round white on a short mast in the forward part of the boat (steaming light) and if over 20m long, a second one mounted higher in the aft part!

[Chertsey]

I would agree VHF is VERY useful. Not least because the lock keepers respond to it, whereas they tend not to answer the phone. It is also useful to be able to monitor other traffic, to find out what other boats are about that you may be sharing a lock with, how long you may have to wait etc - not to mention getting warning of the big buggers. Not sure how much of that applies above Newark though. We fell in love with Newark, a proper living town. Had the worst pub meal ever at the Marstons place (Unicorn?) in Gunthorpe.

 

Charts too are well worth having.

Edited March 10, 2011 by Chertsey

[mykaskin]

You also need an all round white on a short mast in the forward part of the boat (steaming light) and if over 20m long, a second one mounted higher in the aft part!

 

A power-driven vessel of less than 12 metres (39.4 ft) may display only an all-round white light and sidelights. However in the case of a skiff a wooden clinker rowing boat which falls into this category only needs to be capable of showing a white light.

A power-driven vessel of less than 7 metres (23.0 ft) whose maximum speed does not exceed 7 knots (13 km/h; 8 mph) must be capible of showing a white light

 

However for most narrowboats:

 

Lights displayed by power-driven vessels underway

A power-driven vessel underway must display:

a masthead light forward; (3 miles or if longer than 66ft 5 miles visability)

If over 50 metres (164 ft) length, then also a second masthead light aft and higher than the forward one;

sidelights; (2 miles)

a sternlight. (2 miles)

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Regulations_for_Preventing_Collisions_at_Sea

Mike

[Timleech]

A power-driven vessel of less than 12 metres (39.4 ft) may display only an all-round white light and sidelights. However in the case of a skiff a wooden clinker rowing boat which falls into this category only needs to be capable of showing a white light.

A power-driven vessel of less than 7 metres (23.0 ft) whose maximum speed does not exceed 7 knots (13 km/h; 8 mph) must be capible of showing a white light

 

However for most narrowboats:

 

Lights displayed by power-driven vessels underway

A power-driven vessel underway must display:

a masthead light forward; (3 miles or if longer than 66ft 5 miles visability)

If over 50 metres (164 ft) length, then also a second masthead light aft and higher than the forward one;

sidelights; (2 miles)

a sternlight. (2 miles)

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Regulations_for_Preventing_Collisions_at_Sea

Mike

 

 

Don't forget that none of this applies on the majority of BW waters, where (for Narrow boats, at least) a single headlight is all that's required.

 

Tim

[mykaskin]

Don't forget that none of this applies on the majority of BW waters, where (for Narrow boats, at least) a single headlight is all that's required.

 

Tim

Except the Trent where it does, and where we are talking about.

 

Mike

[Naughty Cal]

Don't forget that none of this applies on the majority of BW waters, where (for Narrow boats, at least) a single headlight is all that's required.

 

Tim

 

And it is also worth noting, for narrowboatists considering travelling further down the Trent than Gainsborough, that BW are not responsible for the river below Gainsborough bridge. The river becomes the responsibility of ABP and you must then adhere to "The Humber Navigation Byelaws" which can be found here

 

Humber Estuary Services

 

Failure to do so can (and has recently) resulted in the dishing out of rather hefty fines.

 

Except the Trent where it does, and where we are talking about.

 

Mike

 

And a few other rivers/canals as well

 

(5) On the Trent Navigation, the Weaver Navigation, the Aire and

Calder Navigation, the New Junction Canal and the Sheffield and

South Yorkshire Navigation (below Doncaster) a power-driven

vessel shall in addition to the lights prescribed in paragraphs (1),

(2), (3) and (4) as the case may be of this Bye-law display:-

 

(1) On the starboard side a visible green light so constructed as

to show an unbroken light over an arc of the horizon of ten points

of the compass (112½°) so fixed as to show the light from right

ahead to two points (22½°) abaft the beam on the starboard side.

 

(2) On the port side a visible red light so constructed as to show

an unbroken light over an arc of the horizon of ten points of the

compass (112½°) so fixed as to show the light from right ahead

to two points (22½°) abaft the beam on the port side.