OPERATING YOUR SKIBOAT

FOLLOW THE CHANNEL MARKERS 

Going UP THE RIVER 

• RED square in on your LEFT
• GREEN triangle is on your RIGHT 

Going DOWN THE RIVER.... opposite.

SLOW BOATS AND FAST BOATS

OTHER POWER BOATS have the right to use the river.

• If a houseboat enter a water ski zone, houseboats will travel in the towards the centre of the river with ski boats passing between houseboat and riverbank at speed.
• THE SAME GIVE WAY RULES ALWAYS APPLY TO ALL BOATS. 
• A skiboat coming from aft, must not turn left in front of the slow slow boat to force right of way. They either go well forward before turn or fall back and turn behind.

COLLISION ..... "Always GO right" - (with power in any emergency. You have no brakes). 

• All boats drive on the right side of the channel
• Other boats driving towards you pass you on your left side

NO SKIING AT NIGHT. Driving with Nav lights on is OK

• Towing skiers it not permitted at night
• Towing a boat in distress is OK at night if both boats have nav lights on.
• Check ALL your nav. lights before every evening cruise..
• COURTESY -  switch off your front floods on approach of another boat.
• Most river channel markers have reflectors that display in the flood lights at night.. 

CAMP FIRES are part of the houseboat experience tadition. Take a fire pot with you.

1. You should expect the riverbank to be clean with no evidence of the traditional camp fire, OR perhaps a clean patch of burnt ground with stones around it. (Better than garbage)

IF YOUR SITE IS NOT CLEAN WHEN YOU ARRIVE, make sure you clean before you leave and take the rubbish with you to the garbage bins located at the pump out sites. 

BE A GOOD RIVER CITIZEN ... 

WILDERNESS RULE:- Take out what you take in, and leave no trace of your visit. ... 

ENJOY THE WILD PLACES WHILE YOU CAN.

1. REMEMBER: Carry your bag of fire wood with you on the boat.
2. DO NOT TAKE WOOD FROM THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT.
3. Dead wood is home for small animals and insects. 
4. DO NOT UPSET THE FARIES. They can get nasty.