---
kind: "section"
citation: "33 C.F.R. § 401.39"
title: "33"
number: "401.39"
heading: "Preparing mooring lines for passing through."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/33/401.39"
---

# §401.39. Preparing mooring lines for passing through.


Before a vessel enters a lock:

- (a) Winches shall be capable of paying out and heaving in at a minimum speed of 46 m per minute; and
- (b) The eye of each mooring line shall be passed outward through the fairleads at the side.

## Notes

### Amendments

[39 FR 10900, Mar. 22, 1974, as amended at 47 FR 51122, Nov. 12, 1982; 70 FR 12972, Mar. 17, 2005; 76 FR 13089, Mar. 10, 2011]

### Authority

Authority: 33 U.S.C. 983(a) and 984(a)(4), as amended; 49 CFR 1.101, unless otherwise noted.

### Source

Source: 39 FR 10900, Mar. 22, 1974, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[39 FR 10900, Mar. 22, 1974, as amended at 47 FR 51122, Nov. 12, 1982; 70 FR 12972, Mar. 17, 2005; 76 FR 13089, Mar. 10, 2011]