Baja Marine Outlaw 23 - Manual (Page 39)

3.3 23 Outlaw ®
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• Check the fill plate label to ensure that fuel is
placed ONLY in the fuel tank. The fuel fill plates
are located on the port sde of your boat (Fgure
3.2.1).
• Keep nozzle in contact with fuel fill opening at
all tmes durng fuelng.
• Listen as tank fills and stop adding fuel before
t splls from the vent. Fuel must have room for
expanson.
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• DO nOT wash splled fuel overboard. Wpe up
any spll wth rags or paper towels and dspose
of them properly on shore.
• Open engne compartment and check for fuel
leaks or fumes. Ths s especally mportant f
your boat s equpped wth gasolne engnes.
leave compartment open untl no odor s
apparent. Close compartment.
• If fumes n the engne compartment do not
dsappear, do not turn on blower or start engne.
get help from traned and experenced persons
before usng the boat.
• Turn on blower for four mnutes, then restart
engne.
• assst passengers back nto the boat.
4. b
oarDinG
• DO nOT overload the boat.
• Board one person at a tme and gve assstance
as needed.
• Transfer gear and equpment by handng t from
a person on the dock to a person on board. you
Wet decks are slippery.
You can be seriously injured if you slip and fall.
Wear slip-resistant footwear secured to your feet and
hold onto rails or boat structure.
! WARNING
can lose your balance and be njured f you
attempt to board whle carryng equpment or
gear.
• Dstrbute the weght of equpment and
passengers as evenly as possble to keep the
boat balanced.
• stow gear and equpment so that t s accessble,
but everythng s to be stored n places so as to
prevent it from flying about if the boat encounters
rough water or weather.
5. p
ersonal
f
loTaTion
D
evices
(pfD’
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)
• Operator must nstruct all passengers on locaton
and use of PFD’s (see Section 1- Safety, page
4 for type and usage).
• Chldren and all non-swmmers, adults as well
as chldren, must wear properly-szed PFDs at
all tmes when aboard. Check applcable state
regulatons for PFD wear requrements.
• all passengers should wear PFDs. By the
tme someone falls overboard, t can be to late
for them to put on a PFD and fasten t properly.
Ths s especally true n colder waters, below
70 o F, where survval tme, before hypotherma
sets n, s measured n mnutes.
• If there are passengers not wearng PFDs,
the PFDs must be readly accessble. “Readly
accessble” means out of the storage bag and
unbuckled.
• All throwable flotation devices (cushions, rings,
etc.) must be rght at hand.
6. p
assenGer
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nsTrucTion anD
l
ocaTion
• Everyone on board must be told about the boat’s
behavor from startng to gettng up on plane.
• Before the operator does any hgh-speed
maneuvers or rapdly accelerates or decelerates
the boat, passengers must be warned to st and
hold on and must heed the warnng.