---
title: 'Modern Boat Safety Scheme (BSS) signage for narrrowboats'
url: 'https://www.nick-hayward.co.uk/modern-boat-safety-scheme-bss-signage-narrrowboats'
markdown: 'https://www.nick-hayward.co.uk/modern-boat-safety-scheme-bss-signage-narrrowboats.md'
date: '2025-02-09'
description: "I don't like the traditional boat safety signage, so designed a more modern set of boat safety signs for my narrowboat. Available here as an open source download."
taxonomy:
  category:
    - Creativity
    - Narrowboat
---

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 February 9th, 2025 Posted in [Creativity](https://www.nick-hayward.co.uk/taxonomy?name=category&value=Creativity), [Narrowboat](https://www.nick-hayward.co.uk/taxonomy?name=category&value=Narrowboat)

# Modern Boat Safety Scheme (BSS) signage for narrrowboats

I’ve recently had the [Boat Safety Scheme](https://www.boatsafetyscheme.org/) inspection on my [narrowboat](https://www.nick-hayward.co.uk/category/narrowboat/), and ahead of that worked on my engine bay wiring and general signage around the boat. I don’t like the traditional signage and the ones at the chandlery all have awful colours and basic fonts.

As an alternative, I designed a sheet of boat safety signs in Affinity Designer and had a sticker printed out at A4 size from an online print company. They did the sheet in waterproof, UV stable ink so it should fine in the engine bay and outside on the gas locker etc. Sliced them up with a steel rule and sharp blade, and stuck them around the boat.

The BSS inspector said they were fine so I’m releasing the files here as open source 🙂

## Download

[Download](https://www.nick-hayward.co.uk/user/data/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Modern-BSS-signage-v1.zip) PDF & Affinity file.

The document uses Montserrat that you can download from the designer [here](https://github.com/JulietaUla/Montserrat)

All icons are licensed from Noun Project.

## Gallery

![colourful Boat Safety Scheme BSS signage for narrowboat](https://www.nick-hayward.co.uk/user/pages/01.home/modern-boat-safety-scheme-bss-signage-narrrowboats/Boat-Safety-Scheme-BSS-signage-2.jpg) ![colourful Boat Safety Scheme BSS signage for narrowboat](https://www.nick-hayward.co.uk/user/pages/01.home/modern-boat-safety-scheme-bss-signage-narrrowboats/Boat-Safety-Scheme-BSS-signage-3-scaled-e1739124935665.jpg)

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