Mandatory CO alarms introduced from 1st April 2019

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Just read this in March's Yachting Monthly.
"From 1 April 2019, sailors using some of the UK’s harbours and waterways will have to fit a carbon monoxide alarm on their boat.The new regulation follows a public consultation by the Boat Safety Scheme (BSS) and will affect those cruising the Scottish Canals, BWML marinas, Bristol Harbour, all Canal & River Trust waterways, The Broads, the rivers Medway, Thames, Blackwater, Chelmer, Cam, Dee, Wey, and other waterways run by BSS-regulated navigation authorities. It will apply to all classes of boat with accommodation."

I see that is affects the River Medway where I sail from. I need to check whether it just affects the non-tidal section of the Medway or includes the tidal Medway. Are you gong to be affected.
 
I dislike mandatory anything, but we fitted a CO alarm on our boat 5 years ago and it's a tiny price for an inobtrusive object that is far more likely to be lifesaving than a dan bouy or liferaft or EPIRB.
 
Concerto said:
Just read this in March's Yachting Monthly.
"From 1 April 2019, sailors using some of the UK’s harbours and waterways will have to fit a carbon monoxide alarm on their boat.The new regulation follows a public consultation by the Boat Safety Scheme (BSS) and will affect those cruising the Scottish Canals, BWML marinas, Bristol Harbour, all Canal & River Trust waterways, The Broads, the rivers Medway, Thames, Blackwater, Chelmer, Cam, Dee, Wey, and other waterways run by BSS-regulated navigation authorities. It will apply to all classes of boat with accommodation."

I see that is affects the River Medway where I sail from. I need to check whether it just affects the non-tidal section of the Medway or includes the tidal Medway. Are you gong to be affected.
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Doubt anything will change below Allington Lock unless the marina/boat club/yard mandates you must have one.
With all the raw sewage being dumped into the river from St Werburgh "Marina "at Hoo, Peel Ports appear to have no effective juristiction over safety in the tidal Mudway at all ?
 
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Concerto said:
I see that is affects the River Medway where I sail from. I need to check whether it just affects the non-tidal section of the Medway or includes the tidal Medway. Are you gong to be affected.
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It sounds like it’s an addition to the inland waterways Boat Safety Scheme. Are you subject to the BSS now? If yes, then this will apply to you. If no, then it won’t.

Sad that YM’s standard of journalism is such that they apparently can’t make this clear to their readers.

simonfraser said:
wonder how many extra civil servants that is going to take to enforce ....
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None, because it’s one extra easily-checked item on the existing BSS surveyor’s list. Next to tricky subjects like insisting on ventilation placement designed for narrowboats and incompatible with seagoing hull integrity, ticking a box to say you have a £7 portable detector on board is a complete non-issue.

Pete
 
Would not be without a Co alarm now. Last season ours went off when we are fast asleep at about 0230 and did some investigation and found a split in the exhaust for the heater that was venting to the air intake.... A lucky escape or perhaps a wise decision.
 
One of my co detectors also alarmed when my house batteries started overcharging last summer so an added unexpected bonus in terms of functionality.
 
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