---
kind: "section"
citation: "46 C.F.R. § 28.225"
title: "46"
number: "28.225"
heading: "Navigational information."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/46/28.225"
---

# §28.225. Navigational information.

- (a) Each vessel must have at least the following navigational information on board:
  - (1) Marine charts of the area to be transited, published by the National Ocean Service, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, or a river authority that—
    - (i) Are of a large enough scale and have enough detail to make safe navigation of the area possible; and
    - (ii) **Are currently corrected.**
  - (2) For the area to be transited, a currently corrected copy of, or applicable currently corrected extract from, each of the following publications:
    - (i) U.S. Coast Pilot; and
    - (ii) **Coast Guard Light List.**
  - (3) For the area to be transited, the current edition of, or applicable current extract from, each of the following publications:
    - (i) Tide tables promulgated by the National Ocean Service; and
    - (ii) Tidal current tables promulgated by the National Ocean Service, or a river current publication issued by the U.S. Corps of Engineers or a river authority.
- (b) Each vessel of 39.4 feet (12 meters) or more in length that operates shoreward of the COLREG Demarcation Lines, as set forth in [33 CFR part 80](/cfr/33/part80.md), must carry on board and maintain for ready reference a copy of the Inland Navigation Rules, as set forth in [33 CFR chapter I](/cfr/33/chI.md), subchapter E.

## Notes

### Amendments

[CGD 88-079, 59 FR 40393, Aug. 14, 1991, as amended by CGD 96-046, 61 FR 57275, Nov. 5, 1996; CGD 96-046, 62 FR 46677, Sept. 4, 1997; USCG-2001-10224, 66 FR 48619, Sept. 21, 2001; USCG-2014-0688, 79 FR 58279, Sept. 29, 2014]

### Authority

Authority: 46 U.S.C. 3316, 4502, 4505, 4506, 6104, 8103, 10603; DHS Delegation 00170.1, Revision No. 01.4.

### Source

Source: CGD 88-079, 56 FR 40393, Aug. 14, 1991, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[CGD 88-079, 59 FR 40393, Aug. 14, 1991, as amended by CGD 96-046, 61 FR 57275, Nov. 5, 1996; CGD 96-046, 62 FR 46677, Sept. 4, 1997; USCG-2001-10224, 66 FR 48619, Sept. 21, 2001; USCG-2014-0688, 79 FR 58279, Sept. 29, 2014]