[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 33, Volume 3]
[Revised as of July 1, 2001]
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[CITE: 33CFR401.42]

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                TITLE 33--NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS
 
                    CHAPTER IV--SAINT LAWRENCE SEAWAY
          DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION, DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
 
PART 401--SEAWAY REGULATIONS AND RULES--Table of Contents
 
                         Subpart A--Regulations
 
Sec. 401.42  Passing hand lines.

    (a) At locks, hand lines shall be secured to the mooring lines and 
passed as follows:
    (1) A downbound vessel shall use its own hand lines, secured to the 
eye at the end of the mooring lines, by means of a bowline, which hand 
lines shall be passed to the linehandlers at the lock as soon as the 
vessel passes the open gates;
    (2) Hand lines shall be passed to upbound vessels by the 
linehandlers as soon as the vessel passes the open gates, and secured, 
by means of a clove hitch, to the mooring lines 60 cm behind the splice 
of the eye;
    (3) At Iroquois Lock and Lock 8, Welland Canal, both upbound and 
downbound vessels shall use their own hand lines as provided in 
paragraph (a)(1) of this section; and
    (4) Upbound vessels in Locks 4 and 5, Welland Canal, in excess of 
218 m shall secure the hand line in the eye of No. 1 mooring wire by 
means of a bowline.
    (b) Knotted or weighted hand lines shall not be used in the chamber 
of a lock.
    (c) Mooring lines shall not be passed over the side of a vessel in a 
manner dangerous to a lock crew.

(68 Stat. 93-96, 33 U.S.C. 981-990, as amended and secs. 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 
12 and 13 of sec. 2 of Pub. L. 95-474, 92 Stat. 1471)

[39 FR 10900, Mar. 22, 1974, as amended at 47 FR 51122, Nov. 12, 1982; 
55 FR 48599, Nov. 21, 1990; 61 FR 19551, May 2, 1996]