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OTHER NOTES
Safety should be paramount to your daily cruising. A man overboard drill (person?)
should be discussed and practiced with an unlucky PFD as the victim. (please rinse and
dry afterward before stowing). Remember that your lifejackets are stowed under the
forward bunk and in the third state room closet. A few should always be readily
available. Flares and other safety equipment are located on the fly bridge under the
port cushion in the personal safety bag.
Always have a sharp lookout posted for logs, deadheads, or other flotsam and jetsam. A
log hitting your prop can ruin your vacation. As you are traveling, the debris does seem
to gather along current lines. It is sometimes best to go around these areas and miss
the “mine fields”.
Respite
is equipped with numerous automatic bilges pumps that can be activated on the
DC panel. The switch should normally be left in the “Auto” position can be switched for
a minute or so to “manual” to pump the bilge. If you continually hear the bilge pump
running,
check your bilge!
You may have a serious problem!
An auxiliary hand-operated bilge pump is located under the bed in the aft cabin and
operated by pumping the handle, This is used in an emergency situation.
The engine spares are located under the forward birth they include extra oil filters,
impellers, head parts, etc. Extra oil and coolant is located in the engine room.
Crabbing is fun but requires the correct license and season. Please be sure not to crab
off the stern as the crab line can easily get tangled in your prop as you swing with wind
or current. You certainly don’t want to be the person who has to dive over and cut the
line out of the propeller. It is best to use the dinghy to set your crab pot/ring away from
the boat. A partially open can of seafood catfood works well as any other bait and is
less messy. Please clean up any seaweed of crab shells afterwards to keep the boat
neat and tidy.
