[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 33, Volume 3]

[Revised as of July 1, 2006]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[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:



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    (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 of overall length in excess of 218 m in Locks 4 

and 5, Welland Canal, shall secure the hand lien to the eye of the No. 1 

mooring wire by means of a bowline.

    (b) 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; 70 FR 12972, Mar. 

17, 2005]