Safety Equipment

​From the higher than normal deck lifelines and secure stanchions to the many handholds and bilge pump set-up the safety of the crew and vessel has been designed into the construction.  Malua has weathered many severe storms with little impact on the crew and vessel.  A testament to the safety features.
  • Bilge: Johnson 500 litre/m pumps in the main bilge.  Activated by pressure sensors with alarm. A 500 litre/m bilge pump is in the engine room.  Whale Gusher Titan manual bilge pump operated from cockpit. A portable hand operated emergency pump with flexible output hose is available.
  • Stainless steel hand rails throughout the interior of vessel to ensure safe easy movement in any sea conditions.
  • RDF 6 person life raft stored in hard container on cabin top Serviced 2012 France.
  • Two 406 EPIRB registered, horn, strobe and flares.
  • Lifering with strobe and line in Sunbrella bag on rails.
  • 8 Survey approved life jackets, some with water activated lights.  Old PDFs in locker
  • Two web jackstay from bow to stern.
  • Four cockpit clip-on points in cockpit.
  • Grab bag and flare storage container.
  • Fire extinguishers – Main cabin, next to engine compartment and aft cabin.  Fire blanket.
  • Many round and oblong fenders.
  • Two hard orange life rings for survey purposes are available if required.
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Andersen two speed power winch for halyards