Tips and Advice

1. Wiring For Safety
2. Float Plan Central

Wiring For Safety

The best thing you can do to keep your boat from going up in flames is take good care of its wiring and appliances. A study by BoatU.S. Insurance found that electrical problems caused more than half (55%) of all onboard fires. Nothing else came close. Overheated engines and transmissions were responsible for only 24 percent of the fires while causes such as fuel leaks and stoves were in the single digit percentages.

The study, highlighted in the July issue of Seaworthy Magazine, analyzed hundreds of claims from BoatU.S. files over two years. When fire breaks out onboard, boaters have nowhere to go but in the water, says Chuck Fort, Seaworthy's associate editor, So understanding how fires start and what can be done to prevent them is even more important.

The full report is available at http://BoatUS.com/Seaworthy.

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Float Plan Central

The Float Plan is the world's only Lifesaving Device on Paper and the "Millennium Edition" Float Plan represents the state-of-the-art in float plan design. Its logical organization and exclusive one-page design make it extremely easy to prepare and use.

But the plan by itself is not enough. What makes the float plan a complete and fully functional device is the Boating Emergency Guide. This step-by-step guide assists the holder of your plan, who has a genuine concern for the safety or welfare of the people on board, in beginning the Search And Rescue process.

The "Millennium Edition" Float Plan and Boating Emergency Guide, together they are the World's only fully functional Lifesaving Device On Paper.

Get the Plan. Its free from America's Volunteer Lifesavers, the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary. Safety is simple, if you have a plan.

The full report and the Float Plan is available at http://floatplan.uscgaux.info/.

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