[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 33, Volume 2]
[Revised as of July 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 33CFR183.39]

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                TITLE 33--NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS
 
   CHAPTER I--COAST GUARD, DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY (CONTINUED)
 
PART 183--BOATS AND ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT--Table of Contents
 
                         Subpart C--Safe Loading
 
Sec. 183.39  Persons capacity: Inboard and inboard-outdrive boats.

    (a) The persons capacity in pounds marked on a boat that is designed 
to use one or more inboard engines or inboard-outdrive units for 
propulsion must not exceed the lesser of:
    (1) The maximum weight capacity determined under Sec. 183.33 for the 
boat; or
    (2) For boats with a maximum persons capacity less than 550 pounds, 
the maximum persons capacity determined in the following manner:
    (i) Float the boat in calm water with all its permanent 
appurtenances, including installed engines, full fuel system and tanks, 
control equipment, drive units and batteries.
    (ii) Gradually add weights along one outboard extremity of each 
passenger carrying area, at the height of the seat nearest the center of 
that area, but no higher than the height of the gunwale and distributed 
equally forward and aft of that center in a plane parallel to the 
floorboards, until the boat assumes the maximum list or trim or both, 
without water coming aboard.
    (iii) Compute the persons capacity in pounds in the following 
formula: Persons capacity=A/0.6 where A is the total of the weights 
added in paragraph (a)(2)(ii) of this section.

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    (b) The maximum persons capacity in whole numbers of persons marked 
on a boat that is designed or intended to use one or more inboard 
engines or inboard-outboard units must not exceed the value obtained by 
adding 32 pounds to the value determined in paragraph (a)(2)(iii), 
dividing the sum by 141 and rounding off the result to the nearest whole 
number. If the fraction is less than one-half, round down to the next 
whole integer and if the fraction is equal to or greater than one-half, 
round up to the next higher whole integer.

[CGD 78-034, 45 FR 2030, Jan. 10, 1980, as amended by CGD 83-012, 49 FR 
39328, Oct. 5, 1984; 50 FR 18636, May 2, 1985]