Prestige 400, Owner'S Manual

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MOORING LINES
A sufficient number of mooring lines suitably sized and suitable for the
environment shall be on board for mooring your boat.
- Always manoeuvre your boat using the engine.
- Make allowance for the current and wind when you handle your boat.
- Protect your boat to the highest degree with suitably sized fenders.
- Always keep the mooring ropes unfouled and stored away.
- Handle your boat at a reduced speed.
AFTER MOORING
- Protect the mooring lines against chafing with plastic sleeves.
- Make allowance for the variations in tides if need be.
TOWING
TOWING BOAT
- Tow another boat at a reduced speed and as smoothly as you can.
- Pay particular attention when you throw or catch the towing rope (it may foul on the
propeller).
Note: The stability may be reduced when you tow a boat.
TOWED BOAT
Keep steering your boat and see to it that you stay in the wake of the towing boat.
Inappropriate towing can damage your vessel.
DANGER
- Wear your life jacket.
- In heavy weather, wear your safety harness and fasten yourself to the boat.
- When at sea close the guardrail side-opening or openings.
- Do not try to stop the boat using a boat hook or your foot, your hand or any
other part of the body.
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