uFerries Now Must Be Less Than 100 “Standard” GRT
•100 GRT = 10,000 Ft3 of “Enclosed Volume”
•Various Ways of “Exempting” Space
•“Open To Weather”, Deep Frames
•Adds Steel Weight, Cost, Strongly Type Forming
uCG Has Proposed to Convert To (Int’l) Convention
•1999 Request For Comments:
www.uscg.mil/hq/gm/regs/localnav/97-3198.htm
•True Enclosed Volume (m3): GRT = (0.2+0.02Log
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•Breaks Will Be Increased: 100 GRT Becomes 1600 GRT
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•Rule Rewrite Is Very Complex - Affects Many
Regulations
•New Tonnage Rules Make Big Changes For Ferry Design