Coast Guard, DHS § 164.33

the United States unless no more than on a regular basis at least once every 12 hours before entering or getting un- three months. This drill must include derway, the following equipment has at a minimum the following: been tested: (1) Operation of the main steering (1) Primary and secondary steering gear from within the steering gear gear. The test procedure includes a vis- compartment. ual inspection of the steering gear and (2) Operation of the means of commu- its connecting linkage, and, where ap- nications between the navigating plicable, the operation of the following: bridge and the steering compartment. (i) Each remote steering gear control (3) Operation of the alternative power system. supply for the steering gear if the ves- (ii) Each steering position located on sel is so equipped. the navigating bridge. (92 Stat. 1471 (33 U.S.C. 1221 et seq.); 49 CFR (iii) The main steering gear from the 1.46(n)(4)) alternative power supply, if installed. (iv) Each rudder angle indicator in [CGD 77–183, 45 FR 18925, Mar. 24, 1980, as relation to the actual position of the amended by CGD 83–004, 49 FR 43466, Oct. 29, 1984] rudder. (v) Each remote steering gear control § 164.30 Charts, publications, and system power failure alarm. equipment: General. (vi) Each remote steering gear power No person may operate or cause the unit failure alarm. operation of a vessel unless the vessel (vii) The full movement of the rudder has the marine charts, publications, to the required capabilities of the and equipment as required by §§ 164.33 steering gear. through 164.41 of this part. (2) All internal vessel control com- munications and vessel control alarms. [CGD 82–055, 48 FR 44535, Sept. 29, 1983] (3) Standby or emergency generator, for as long as necessary to show proper § 164.33 Charts and publications. functioning, including steady state (a) Each vessel must have the fol- temperature and pressure readings. lowing: (4) Storage batteries for emergency (1) Marine charts of the area to be lighting and power systems in vessel transited, published by the National control and propulsion machinery Ocean Service, U.S. Army Corps of En- spaces. gineers, or a river authority that— (5) Main propulsion machinery, ahead (i) Are of a large enough scale and and astern. have enough detail to make safe navi- (b) Vessels navigating on the Great gation of the area possible; and Lakes and their connecting and tribu- (ii) Are currently corrected. tary waters, having once completed the (2) For the area to be transited, a test requirements of this subpart, are currently corrected copy of, or applica- considered to remain in compliance ble currently corrected extract from, until arriving at the next port of call each of the following publications: on the Great Lakes. (i) U.S. Coast Pilot. (c) Vessels entering the Great Lakes (ii) Coast Guard Light List. from the St. Lawrence Seaway are con- (3) For the area to be transited, the sidered to be in compliance with this current edition of, or applicable cur- sub-part if the required tests are con- rent extract from: ducted preparatory to or during the (i) Tide tables published by private passage of the St. Lawrence Seaway or entities using data provided by the Na- within one hour of passing Wolfe Is- tional Ocean Service. land. (ii) Tidal current tables published by (d) No vessel may enter, or be oper- private entities using data provided by ated on the navigable waters of the the National Ocean Service, or river United States unless the emergency current publication issued by the U.S. steering drill described below has been Army Corps of Engineers, or a river au- conducted within 48 hours prior to thority. entry and logged in the vessel logbook, (b) As an alternative to the require- unless the drill is conducted and logged ments for paragraph (a) of this section,

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a marine chart or publication, or appli- maximum rudder angle and constant cable extract, published by a foreign power settings, for either full and half government may be substituted for a speeds, or for full and slow speeds. For U.S. chart and publication required by vessels whose turning circles are essen- this section. The chart must be of large tially the same for both directions, a enough scale and have enough detail to diagram showing a turning circle in make safe navigation of the area pos- one direction, with a note on the dia- sible, and must be currently corrected. gram stating that turns to port and The publication, or applicable extract, starboard are essentially the same, must singly or in combination contain may be substituted. similar information to the U.S. Gov- (2) The time and distance to stop the ernment publication to make safe navi- vessel from either full and half speeds, gation of the area possible. The publi- or from full and slow speeds, while cation, or applicable extract must be maintaining approximately the initial currently corrected, with the excep- tions of tide and tidal current tables, heading with minimum application of which must be the current editions. the rudder. (c) As used in this section, ‘‘currently (3) For each vessel with a fixed pro- corrected’’ means corrected with peller, a table of shaft revolutions per changes contained in all Notices to minute for a representative range of Mariners published by the National speeds. Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, or an (4) For each vessel with a control- equivalent foreign government publica- lable pitch propeller, a table of control tion, reasonably available to the ves- settings for a representative range of sel, and that is applicable to the ves- speeds. sel’s transit. (5) For each vessel that is fitted with [CGD 82–055, 48 FR 44535, Sept. 29, 1983, as an auxiliary device to assist in maneu- amended by USCG–2001–9286, 66 FR 33641, vering, such as a bow thruster, a table June 25, 2001; USCG–2015–0433, 80 FR 44282, of vessel speeds at which the auxiliary July 27, 2015] device is effective in maneuvering the vessel. § 164.35 Equipment: All vessels. (6) The maneuvering information for Each vessel must have the following: the normal load and normal ballast (a) A marine radar system for surface condition for: navigation. (i) Calm weather—wind 10 knots or (b) An illuminated magnetic steering less, calm sea; compass, mounted in a binnacle, that (ii) No current; can be read at the vessel’s main steer- ing stand. (iii) Deep water conditions—water (c) A current magnetic compass devi- depth twice the vessel’s draft or great- ation table or graph or compass com- er; and parison record for the steering com- (iv) Clean hull. pass, in the wheelhouse. (7) At the bottom of the fact sheet, (d) A gyrocompass. the following statement: (e) An illuminated repeater for the gyrocompass required by paragraph (d) WARNING of this section that is at the main The response of the (name of the vessel) steering stand, unless that gyro- may be different from that listed above if compass is illuminated and is at the any of the following conditions, upon which main steering stand. the maneuvering information is based, are (f) An illuminated rudder angle indi- varied: cator in the wheelhouse. (1) Calm weather—wind 10 knots or less, (g) The following maneuvering infor- calm sea; mation prominently displayed on a fact (2) No current; sheet in the wheelhouse: (3) Water depth twice the vessel’s draft or greater; (1) A turning circle diagram to port (4) Clean hull; and and starboard that shows the time and (5) Intermediate drafts or unusual trim. distance and advance and transfer re- quired to alter course 90 degrees with (h) An echo depth sounding device.

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