NESS SAFETY REGULATIONS 2007
INSHORE & SHORT COASTAL RACES HELD IN DAYLIGHT
ISAF category 4 shall be applied to all boats with the NESS prescription as follows:
Strongly recommended (SR) means that a regulation has not been deleted but that a boat cannot be protested if that
regulation has not been complied with.
Reference shall be made to the extract for race category 4 monohulls at http://www.sailing.org/offshore/2006/OSR2006_Mo4_250106.pdf
The following regulations are prescribed as SR:
| 3.08/1-4 | Hatches and companionways |
| 3.09/1-8 | Cockpits |
| 3.12 | Mast Step |
| 3.14 | Pulpits, stanchions, lifelines |
| 3.18 | Toilets |
| 3.19 | Bunks |
| 3.27 | Navigation lights |
| 4.01.2 | Sail numbers on dodger |
| 4.07 | Flashlight with spare bulbs and batteries |
| 4.08.4/5 | First aid training |
| 4.10 | Radar reflector to comply with ORC special regulations |
| 4.12 | Safety equipment location chart |
| 4.13 | Echosounder |
| 4.18 | Retro reflective |
| 4.22.4 | Retro reflective |
| 4.23 | 4 red hand, 2 orange hand and 2 white hand held flares |
| 4.24 | Heaving Line |
| 4.26 | Storm & heavy weather sails |
The following equipment shall be carried by all boats (this is a summary only of the mandatory equipment to be carried).
| 3.23 | One Manual bilge pump & one bucket & lanyard |
| 3.24 | An accurate marine manual compass |
| 3.28 | Adequate engine (see category 3) |
| 3.29 | VHF & emergency antenna or watertight hand held VHF VHF |
| 4.01 | Sail numbers. |
| 4.03 | Soft wood plugs |
| 4.05 | One Fire extinguisher |
| 4.06 | One Anchor with suitable warp |
| 4.08 | First aid kit & manual |
| 4.09 | Foghorn |
| 4.11 | Suitable charts of area |
| 4.16 | Tools & spare parts and a means of severing rigging |
| 4.22 | Lifebuoy |
| 4.23 | 2 red hand held flares and 2 orange smoke flares |
| 4.25 | Cockpit knife |
| 5.01 | Lifejacket or adequate personal buoyancy |
Competitors shall be directed by the Race Officer for the use of lifejackets and adequate personal buoyancy.