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This is a little bit of symantics but just to clarify.
Don't say that EPIRP's are for "the boat".......it is really for the situation. Epirbs don't stay with the boat.
If a Cat 1, it releases, or you hope it realeases and activates. Where does this go??? it is drifting in the ocean, hopefully after you get over the initial shock of the incident, it is in site of you and you can grab it and keep it with you. But lets face it, usually it is not a bluebird day. So the epirb in the end may end up hundreds of yards or miles from you until you are rescued.
The Cat 2 has to be manually activated, so this turns out to be a bigger PLB. And try to keep this with You, if not it drifts away just like the Cat 1.
On ships we make it someones duty to grab the Cat 1, if there is time, in an abandon ship situation so this stays with one of the lifeboats/liferafts since they do not have an epirb of there own. There is just 1 Cat 1 for the vessel. We also have other means of distress comms also.
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