a quick question on rules

[floatman]

follow this link, click on Boating and Index, scroll down to Required Equipment
http://fw.ky.gov/navigation.aspx?cid=800

Gary

[walkeraviator]

I dont think they are required by KDFWR, but i believe it is a Coast Guard requirement... so if on a navigable waterway i think you have to have one...

[eddie_m]

Thanks, Gary the floatman. After all these years, I just learned that my 14' john boat is supposed to have a fire extinguisher. You might have saved me a ticket one day.

[walkeraviator]

I never read this in the above posted link, but i could have sworn a paddle and a bailing system(bilge pump or bucket) were also required equipment

[kygorski]

yes on the bailing stuff, and dont forget a whistle, was told by kdfw that an air horn is not legal. Anchor? I use mine a lot, a habit we had up north, sometimes trying to fish a windy shore with a trolling motor is a pain, but anchors dont work well on lake cumberland necause of the depth, and they are marginal on dale

[Grumpy]

KYgorski, I don't understand why an airhorn would not be legal as it is "power operated". I have been checked on several lakes in KY and no one has ever told me the handheld airhorn I keep on the dash is not legal.

Gruimpy

[walkeraviator]

go to the junk yard and get a car horn out of any car... mount it under console... get spring loaded button from radio shack and wire that sucker in... that is how Dads is...