Navigation Safety Regulations, 2020

Marginal note:Canadian towboats — radar

• 125 (1) A Canadian vessel that is a towboat must be fitted with

  • (a) if it is engaged on a near coastal voyage, Class 2 and is of 5 gross tonnage or more, a radar to determine and display the range and bearing of radar transponders and of other surface craft, obstructions, buoys, shorelines and navigational marks;

  • (b) if it is engaged on a near coastal voyage, Class 1,

    • (i) echo-sounding equipment to measure and display the available depth of water, and

    • (ii) two radars that meet the requirements set out in paragraph (a) and that are functionally independent of each other; and

  • (c) if it is engaged on an unlimited voyage, the equipment set out in paragraph (b) and a gyro-compass to determine and display its heading by shipborne non-magnetic means.

• Marginal note:Exception

  (2) A Canadian vessel that is a towboat does not have to meet the equipment requirements set out in subsection (1) if it is engaged in a towing operation in an emergency situation on an exceptional basis.