HomeMy WebLinkAboutSS3 - Stand Up Paddleboard Safety - HandoutRECEIVED AFTER AGENDA PRINTED
MAY 8, 2018
AGENDA ITEM NO. SS3
Ad Hoc SUP Safety Committee
Approved by Harbor Commission on October 11, 2017
As a result of the unfortunate accident of an SUP user in Huntington Beach, and as a follow-on to
the deliberations by this committee in the past few months, the committee revisited its previous
conclusions and recommends the following:
1. City's Harbormaster should coordinate with Code Enforcement to identify and regulate
operators in the Harbor that are operating without a permit.
2. Harbor Commission to revise the SUP safety pamphlet prepared by the previous SUP
Safety Committee and Harbor Resources to make the pamphlet available to the Harbor
operators and the general public.
3. That all rental SUP boards and manual powered vessels be fitted with leashes, and that
providers of such rental vessels encourage their customers to wear them.
4. As a follow-up to the Harbor Commission's previous recommendations that Harbor
operators improve educational procedures at the source of renting a human -powered
watercraft, the Committee recommends that the following become conditions for
procuring a Marine Activities permit:
• That each operator distribute the safety brochure and require its customers to
acknowledge they have read it.
• That each operator acknowledge in writing with each customer that they can
swim. If not, the operator must require the user to wear a life vest.