Boating Classes

Onshore · 08-16-2010, 02:46 PM

It has repeated been pointed out that the boating certificate only certifies that you know the rules; you don't actually have to know how to drive a boat. Is there any place locally that actually offers piloting lessons? Is there any incentive for taking such a course? Perhaps a break on your insurance? We are actually getting requests these days for bigger stronger docks where the applicants say the need for the stronger dock is that inexperienced boaters (or older relatives with slower reflexes) continuously damage the regulaur existing structures because they don't know how to dock and run into them. This is a rather disturbing bit of reasoning and it would be great if we could refer people to some form of boat piloting class so that their docks will survive a bit longer because the Department is not going to start accepting boater inability as justification for "beefier" docks.

08-16-2010, 02:46 PM	#1
Onshore Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 501 Thanks: 12 Thanked 423 Times in 145 Posts	Boating Classes It has repeated been pointed out that the boating certificate only certifies that you know the rules; you don't actually have to know how to drive a boat. Is there any place locally that actually offers piloting lessons? Is there any incentive for taking such a course? Perhaps a break on your insurance? We are actually getting requests these days for bigger stronger docks where the applicants say the need for the stronger dock is that inexperienced boaters (or older relatives with slower reflexes) continuously damage the regulaur existing structures because they don't know how to dock and run into them. This is a rather disturbing bit of reasoning and it would be great if we could refer people to some form of boat piloting class so that their docks will survive a bit longer because the Department is not going to start accepting boater inability as justification for "beefier" docks.