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AS 1799.1:2025
[Current]Small craft, Part 1: Essential safety requirements for power boats
AS 1799.1:2025 specifies requirements for maximum load, persons and power capacities, reserve buoyancy, stability, and other safety aspects for powered craft up to 15 m in length used as recreational boats.
Published: 21/11/2025
Pages: 59
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Table of contents
Header
About this publication
Preface
1 Scope and general
1.1 Scope
1.2 Application
1.3 Normative references
1.4 Terms and definitions
1.5 Symbols and abbreviated terms
1.6 Marking
1.6.1 Boat capacities
1.6.1.1 Capacity plate
1.6.1.2 Plates restricting numbers of persons in particular places
1.6.2 Open waters loading warning
1.6.3 Hull identification
2 Maximum capacities and buoyancy
2.1 Maximum load capacity for boats less than 6 m in length for protected waters
2.1.1 General
2.1.2 Outboard installations
2.1.3 Inboard installations
2.2 Maximum persons capacity for boats less than 6 m in length for protected waters
2.2.1 General
2.2.2 Outboard installations
2.2.3 Inboard installations
2.3 Maximum persons capacity for boats less than 6 m in length for open waters
2.4 Maximum persons capacity for boats 6 m or more in length
2.5 Provision of seating and standing positions
2.6 Swamped flotation
2.6.1 Minimum swamped flotation
2.6.2 Use of flotation materials
2.6.3 Resistant flotation materials
2.6.4 Level flotation
2.6.5 Boats 6 m or more in length
2.6.6 Air compartments
2.7 Maximum power capacity
2.7.1 Determination of maximum power capacity for outboard installations
2.7.2 Determination of maximum power capacity for pontoon boats
2.7.3 Tiller steered outboard installations
2.7.4 Determination of maximum power capacity for inboard and sterndrive installations
2.7.5 Determination of maximum power capacity by test
2.7.6 Engine power rating
3 Hull Design
3.1 General
3.2 Self-draining cockpits and wells in weather decks
3.2.1 General design
3.2.2 Drain area
3.2.3 Drain design and construction
3.2.3.1 Drain design
3.2.3.2 Drain construction
3.2.4 Drainage around hatches over engine compartments
3.3 Quick-draining cockpits, wells and recesses
3.3.1 Fully decked boats
3.3.2 Time to drain water
3.3.3 Freeing port area
3.4 Freeing port construction
3.5 Drain plugs
3.6 Hatches and exterior doors
3.6.1 Design of hatches and exterior doors
3.6.2 Construction of hatches and exterior doors
3.6.3 Hatch coamings
3.6.4 Security of attachment of hatch covers
3.6.5 Doorway sills
4 Stability
4.1 Personal water craft
4.2 Protected waters requirements for boats less than 6 m in length
4.2.1 General
4.2.2 Stability under static conditions
4.3 Protected waters requirements for boats 6 m or more in length and open waters requirements
4.3.1 General
4.3.2 Heeling test
4.3.3 Heeling moment
4.3.4 Requirements
4.3.4.1 Angle of heel
4.3.4.2 Loss of freeboard
4.4 Multihull boats
4.4.1 General
4.4.2 Freeboard
4.4.3 Heeling test
5 Fire protection
5.1 Portable fire extinguishers
5.1.1 Selection
5.1.2 Boats powered by a motor
5.1.3 Large tanks
5.1.4 LP Gas or other flammable gases
5.1.5 Flammable liquids
5.1.6 Boats with accommodation
5.1.7 Location and mounting
5.2 Fixed fire extinguishing system
5.2.1 General
5.2.2 Activation
5.2.3 Test facility
5.3 Inboard engine compartments
Appendix A
A.1 Scope
A.2 Outboard installations
A.3 Inboard installations
Appendix B
B.1 Scope
B.2 Principle
B.3 Determination of flotation material required for basic flotation after swamping
B.4 Guide to the volume and placement of flotation material required for level flotation after swamping
B.4.1 Location of flotation material
B.4.2 Method of calculation
Appendix C
C.1 Scope
C.2 Preconditioning
C.3 Tests and assessment
C.3.1 Symmetrical fully-laden angle of heel test
C.3.2 Asymmetrical partially-laden angle of heel test
C.3.3 Unladen angle of heel test
Appendix D
D.1 Scope
D.2 Watertight compartments
D.3 Capacity of pump
D.4 Pump details
D.5 Piping
D.5.1 Material
D.5.2 Pipe diameter
D.5.3 Pipe joints
D.5.4 Tail pipes
D.5.5 Strainers
D.5.6 Back-flooding
D.6 Bilge level alarms
Appendix E
E.1 Weathertightness
E.2 Watertightness
Appendix F
F.1 Scope
F.2 Test conditions
F.3 Test course
F.4 Procedure
F.5 Evaluation
F.6 Warning notice
F.7 Report
Appendix G
G.1 Scope
G.2 Application
G.3 Procedure
Appendix H
H.1 Scope
H.2 Background
H.3 Applicable requirements
Appendix I
I.1 Scope
I.2 Subject boat
I.3 Maximum power capacity
I.4 Maximum load capacity
I.5 Maximum persons capacity
I.6 Total mass of persons
Appendix J
J.1 Scope
J.2 Classification and rating of fire extinguishers
J.2.1 General
J.2.2 Class A fires
J.2.3 Class B fires
J.2.4 Class C fires
J.2.5 Class D fires
J.2.6 Electrical hazards
J.2.7 Class F fires
J.3 Types of portable fire extinguishers
Bibliography
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Reciprocating internal combustion engines — Performance — Part 3: Test measurements
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Small craft — Power measurements and declarations — Part 2: Electric marine propulsion
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Small craft — Determination of maximum propulsion power rating using manoeuvring speed — Part 2: Craft with a length of hull between 8 m and 24 m
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