COMPANYNAME SOLAS TRAINING MANUAL PART A – Section 4 Lifeboats
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Repairs to a fibreglass boat can be achieved by using raw fibreglass and resin materials so that the surface shows little or no sign of damage. To make such repairs requires experience in handling fibreglass and polyester resin and temperatures and humidifies by no means always found on the boat deck or quayside. Any repair kits supplied by boat builders must be kept "in date." In almost every case therefore, a far stronger and neater job can be made using ordinary skills and well-known materials. The most useful fastening for light repairs, such as a tingle, is an assortment of stainless steel self-tapping screws. For stronger fixing use ordinary through fastenings, rivets, nuts and bolts etc. Ordinary putty or sealing compounds is satisfactory for smoothing and jointing and the job can be finished off by painting in the ordinary way.
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Air tanks are normally made of muntz metal or copper and filled with either kapok contained in plastic bags or expanded plastic foam. Air tanks made of yellow metal should be wire brushed and coated with either clear varnish or linseed oil whenever the lifeboat is being overhauled. Stretchers are required to be portable in order that they can be easily removed for the purpose of paying injured survivors on the bottom boards.
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All lifeboats are required to be at least 12 inches (30cm) clear of the ship's side, when being lowered with the ship upright.
Construction of lifeboats
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All lifeboats are to have a whaler stern so that alley will rise to a following sea and can be either hove-to or rowed stern first. Except that all mechanically propelled and motor boats may have a transom stern to assist in protecting the propeller.
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