Probably also a requirement buried deep in your insurance policy.
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#1590671 - 08/02/1408:43 AM
Re: Overpowering a boat?
[Re: onthewater102]
onthewater102
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Loc: Kent, CT
Overpowering itself is not illegal according to that handout.
"Connecticut law designates these dangerous operating practices as illegal...Hazardous Conditionis operating a vessel in a condition that causes a hazard to the occupants or to others on the waterways."
It goes on to list situations that could be considered hazardous by the officer - but it adds "overpowered" to the list when it's neither in the statute or the DEEP regs.
Powers of officers re vessel in unsafe condition. If any officer empowered to enforce the provisions of this chapter observes a vessel being used without sufficient lifesaving or fire-fighting devices or in an overloaded or otherwise unsafe condition as defined in this chapter or in regulations of the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, and in his judgment such use creates an especially hazardous condition, he may direct the operator to take whatever immediate and reasonable steps that would be necessary for the safety of those aboard the vessel, including directing the operator to return to mooring and to remain there until the situation creating the hazard is corrected or ended.
#1590672 - 08/02/1408:44 AM
Re: Overpowering a boat?
[Re: swwind]
bonanzaman
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Loc: Monroe, CT
I would say that overpowering a boat is not illegal. If the boat was marked for a max horsepower of 150 hp and you mount a 170 hp motor, but use less than the 170hp, then all should be fine.
They do that with aircraft all the time, where engine operation in a specific airframe is limited by RPM which limits the hp output of that engine.
If the engine is too heavy for the transom, that's a different story.
...If the engine is too heavy for the transom, that's a different story.
and that would be an instance of overloading which is explicitly in the statute
I'm guessing "overloading" in that context refers to the number of people aboard.
""Happy Talk" . . . . . Because it has worked so well thus far"
"It is not necessary to change; survival is not mandatory" - Edward Deming
"Unless we start to focus everything on this, our targets will soon be out of reach" - Greta Thunberg January 2020
"I spent most of my dough on booze, broads and boats and the rest I wasted" - Elmore Leonard.
Team Man Made Climate Change is Real.
"Such change demands on our part a serious and responsible recognition not only of the kind of world we may be leaving to our children, but also to the millions of people living under a system which has overlooked them" - Pope Francis September 2015
#1590944 - 08/04/1410:07 AM
Re: Overpowering a boat?
[Re: onthewater102]
Fishhedz
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Registered: 02/21/05
Posts: 1052
Loc: Central Ct.
I had 2 - 70 hp Suzukis on a 20 ft cuddy. They weighed in at 375 each.
I was well below my listed hp. of 200 but the motors were heavy. I had to put an auto-switch bilge pump in the transoms well to keep the splash-over out. They had to cut the transom to fit the motors on. I didn't realize how much lower it would be.
I won't do that again. Nice to have the 2 motors but the weight was a little too much. I put up with it for years though.
I think weight is more of a issue than hp. but I wouldn't put a 250 hp. on an 18' skiff.
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