This is an FRC of the type that you see on ERRVs and SOME OSVs: [image] This is a MOB-boat that you find on most ships, except those fitted with Lifeboats that is approved as MOB-boats. Ridget type: [image] Inflatable type: [image] The “Economy size” MOB-boat: [image] ALL are SOLAS approve…

Same for both lifeboats as far as I can tell [req_gear1] [req_gear2]

Is this MARKUS man overboard recovery net, or a similar product, available to order in the US or Canada?

We call that a “seine skiff”. Typically, fiberglass or aluminum. Some of them have 400hp, nozzles, and flap-rudders.The cost has become outrageous.

Facts remain that fast rescue boats carried by my ships shall according IMO/SOLAS be able to be launched and recovered at sea in severe weather by the ship to pick up people in the water and that regular training/testing of boats, appliances and crews shall be done in severe weather, i.e. >B6 and >3…

[image] Kennebec_Captain: Same for both lifeboats as far as I can tell 17, 23, 26, and 34 are required in rescue boats and not lifeboats (23, 26, and 36 aren’t required on a ridgid rescue boat) and 39 is required if your lifeboat is also the rescue boat. So a buoyant fixed blade knife and a …

[image] Heiwa: Facts remain that fast rescue boats carried by my ships shall according IMO/SOLAS be able to be launched and recovered at sea in severe weather by the ship to pick up people in the water and that regular training/testing of boats, appliances and crews shall be done in severe weath…

[image] Capt_Phoenix: 39 is required if your lifeboat is also the rescue boat. On a ship with two davit-launched lifeboats there are two boat that are required to meet same exact requirements, each carry the same equipment and one is designated as a rescue boat. On a ship with a single free-…

[image] Kennebec_Captain: But the towline and the painter have to be the same. That’s not what the quote you provided says. It says the towline must be no shorter and no thinner than the painter. That’s not “the same” because the tow line has different requirements than the painter.

You’re right, they don’t have to be the same. So it is possible they could in fact be different. But they do have to meet the same requirements so in practice they also could be the same.

[image] Kennebec_Captain: But they do have to meet the same requirements so in practice they also could be the same. They’re is no requirement I’m aware of for the painter(s) to be buoyant.

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Same for both lifeboats as far as I can tell

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