Safety Equipment aboard Safari

[Sue & Larry]

There is always a lot of interest in the safety equipment cruisers choose to place on their boats. Here is the safety gear that we have on board Safari. 4-person life raft, Avon hard case (includes safety and survival gear) man overboard horseshoe ring with strobe light attached LifeSling  radar autopilot  permanent GPS interfaced with autopilot backup GPS, a handheld with battery power 2 VHFs, each permanently mounted with separate antenna (one not on mast) single sideband radio  jacklinesled fore and aft inflatable life jackets with built-in safety harness radar reflector extensive first-aid kit bilge pumps: 1 electric, 1 manual, 2 five-gallon buckets wood bungs for through-hulls whistles on life jackets float plan filed with friends or family abandon-ship bag, contents: 406 mhz epirb, flares, handheld VHF, canned food, water, knife, chemical lightsticks (Note: with the exception of the VHF radio and epirb, all contents of abandon-ship bag duplicate and supplement the contents of survival gear in life raft.) S.H.