Safety sticker/decal

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Does anyone know were to get the decal that reads:

WARNING-
Gasoline vapors can explode, run blower 4 minutes before starting engines.

and is required on boats? I have check with the CG, DBW as well as westmarine.

Thanks.
 
I just googled the phrase and got several sites that sell it
 
I've never heard the Aux ask about that during the annual VIP safety check or active Coasties during a boarding, but the visable warning by the ign switch certainly should be a MUCH higher priority than the trash or oil discharge placards. I think the warning is embossed in my dash panel.

1 free sample is apparently available from the nat'l marine manufacturers' aasociation nmma dot org
 
It is not a required item... How many placards do you need on your boat?

If anyone needs a placard to know that they need to run the blower, i dont want them out on the water anyway :)
 
Use a Word Processing software on your computer and make your own or go to an instant sign store and pay them to make one for you.
 
Pascal, it may be an ABYC requirement. I'd check but I am far too cheap to pay for access the standards.
 
The best thing you can buy for your boat AND your home is a Brother P Touch labeler. I use mine all the time. I especially like the "red letter on white" labels to label the location of safety equipment. I also have some of the "E tape" which I use to label my electric wires on for instance my recent helm project. Just get one of those, run your label and you got the placard you need, then keep it handy. You will wonder how you did without it.
 
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Originally posted by GeeBee

The best thing you can buy for your boat AND your home is a Brother P Touch labeler. I use mine all the time. I especially like the "red letter on white" labels to label the location of safety equipment. I also have some of the "E tape" which I use to label my electric wires on for instance my recent helm project. Just get one of those, run your label and you got the placard you need, then keep it handy. You will wonder how you did without it.

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+1.....
 
That wasn't a cheap shot aimed at you... But at all the damn layers forcing us to put labels everywhere

I saw a new Boat today with a BIG triangular red sticker, 3" high, "warning 240v" next to the shore power inlet on the transom... DUH!!!
 
When we had a safety inspection last season, the inspector asked about the trash and oil-discharge stickers. I didn't have any. I later got them for free at the local West Marine. They're usually five cents each, but he didn't want to ring them up because that would lower his "average sales for the day". I stuck them in the engine bay. Then I learned that they're only required on boats larger than 28'; ours is 24'. The blower sticker was on the boat from the factory. My understanding is that it is "recommended" by the Coast Guard and required by ABYC. Try West marine for the stickers. Hy
 
Lol... The Auxiliary will pass a boat with no VHF, anchor, fenders or charts but it can not be without the damn stickers./.

One thing which should have a big warning label is... Voter registration: "warning: exercising poor judgement when using this card may result in high unemployment, soaring gas prices, devastating national debt and numerous other unintended consequences"
 
one of my favorite stickers is the one on replacement windows.
anyone want to venture what it warns about?
 
Pascal: Please don't make this poliical. The Auxilliary will not pass a boat without VHF, anchor, or charts. I don't know whether fenders are also included. That's for the safety of the captain and his/her passengers. It is a courtesy inspection, not a governmental intervention. I have a great deal of respect for the men and women of the Auxilliary. They do a great public service without any pay. As to the decals, they're a bit of an annoyance, but nothing more. They help boaters remember that there's responsibility with owning a boat along with pleasure. We, our children, and our grand-children are all entitled to have clean, safe waters in which to boat, fish, and swim. Unfortunately, some people seem to forget that. If you don't like the reminder/warning decals on your boat, don't have them or stick them in the engine bay. That way you won't see them, but they'll meet the requirements of larger boats. Hy
 
Greg - Thanks for the great idea of the P-Touch. I had never thought of it. For years, including recently on my own boat, when ever I took more than two wires off something I would label it with masking tape and a sharpie. Own something long enough and you do it more than once. Putting a p-touch label cures both my sloppy handwriting and doing it a second time. Plus it gets my wife involved as she loves to label stuff with it.

As Dave said a few days ago, tips and tricks is what makes this site great!!!
 
My comment was civic, not political

Check out the official vessel safety check website and look at the requirements. It s all there, and official. Charts, VHF, anchor, etc is all recommended NOT required and they will pass the boat, telling the owner and like new boater "you should have an anchor but your boat is still safe enough without one"

Oh... And bilge pumps too! Not required.
 
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Originally posted by littlebookworm

When we had a safety inspection last season, the inspector asked about the trash and oil-discharge stickers. I didn't have any. I later got them for free at the local West Marine. They're usually five cents each, but he didn't want to ring them up because that would lower his "average sales for the day". I stuck them in the engine bay. Then I learned that they're only required on boats larger than 28'; ours is 24'. The blower sticker was on the boat from the factory. My understanding is that it is "recommended" by the Coast Guard and required by ABYC. Try West marine for the stickers. Hy

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That's why myself and many of my coworkers carry a few of the oil and trash stickers - I've never seen a recent factory boat that didn't come with them installed, but a lot of people don't know where they are. It saves everyone time and hassle when it can be corrected right there on the spot when they've been lost, removed, or can't be located.

Some of the other markings, such as (possibly, I don't want to say for sure off the top of my head) the blower warning are like the fire extinguisher brackets - appropriate type approval requires them to be sold with it, but there is no carriage requirement for them.

Also, rereading your post - just to make sure the right information is out there, on vessels where they ARE required, the engineroom is not the place for the garbage placard. Good place for the oil discharge placard, but the garbage placard, if top of my head memory serves me (I'm at a school right now with a LOT of other things going on), needs to be 'conspicuously posted'.
 
Thanks for the correction on the sticker placement. I was on our boat today (man, was it cold) and spotted the garbage decal near the throttle lever, along with the capacity decal and the outdrive position decal. In re-reading my post, I also noticed the typing errors I had made in my original post; my apologies. Hy
 
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