---
kind: "section"
citation: "46 C.F.R. § 199.160"
title: "46"
number: "199.160"
heading: "Rescue boat embarkation, launching and recovery arrangements."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/46/199.160"
---

# §199.160. Rescue boat embarkation, launching and recovery arrangements.

- (a) Each rescue boat must be capable of being launched with the vessel making headway of 5 knots in calm water. A painter may be used to meet this requirement.
- (b) Each rescue boat embarkation and launching arrangement must permit the rescue boat to be boarded and launched in the shortest possible time.
- (c) The rescue boat must meet the embarkation and launching arrangement requirements of §§ [199.110 (e)](/cfr/46/199.110.md?p=e) and [(g)](/cfr/46/199.110.md?p=g), [199.150](/cfr/46/199.150.md), [199.155](/cfr/46/199.155.md), and if the launching arrangement uses falls and a winch, [§ 199.153](/cfr/46/199.153.md).
- (d) If the rescue boat is one of the vessel's survival craft, the rescue boat must also meet the following requirements:
  - (1) The rescue boat must meet the muster and embarkation arrangement requirements of [§ 199.110](/cfr/46/199.110.md) and the launching station requirements of [§ 199.120](/cfr/46/199.120.md).
  - (2) If the launching arrangement uses a single fall, the rescue boat may have an automatic disengaging apparatus approved under approval series 160.170 instead of a lifeboat release mechanism.
- (e) Rapid recovery of the rescue boat must be possible when loaded with its full complement of persons and equipment. If the rescue boat is also a lifeboat, rapid recovery must be possible when loaded with its lifeboat equipment and an approved rescue boat complement of at least six persons.
- (f) Each rescue boat launching appliance must be fitted with a powered winch motor.
- (g) Each rescue boat launching appliance must be capable of hoisting the rescue boat when loaded with its full rescue boat complement of persons and equipment at a rate of not less than 0.3 meters per second (59 feet per minute).

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 46 U.S.C. 3306, 3703; Pub. L. 103-206, 107 Stat. 2439; DHS Delegation 00170.1, Revision No. 01.4.

### Source

Source: CGD 84-069, 61 FR 25313, May 20, 1996, unless otherwise noted.