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Originally Posted by NightWing
Where did you get the idea that the Coast Guard Certificate is not accepted?
From the Boater Education Site:
New Hampshire accepts the following boating education certificates:
1. A boating certificate issued by another State agency and NASBLA approved.
2. A boating certificate issued by the US Power Squadron. 
3. A boating certificate issued by the US Coast Guard Auxiliary.
4. An unexpired commercial boating license issued by the US Coast Guard.
5. An unexpired commercial boating license issued by the State of New Hampshire. |
No. 2 is not necessarily correct. I have been boating for abour 60 years from Maine to Florida. I didn't bother to get the online certificate when available because I had one from the USPS I received in 1973 (this was at least a 7 week course IIRC). I did help my wife study and she got her NH cert online. I decided it would be nice to have a little plastic card instead of my large paper certificate so I made a copy of it and sent it in with my $10. Got a call from the head of boating safety who said it doesn't say NASBLA approved (they didn't exist then) and we don't know what was covered. I told him I still have the course binder and it covers a lot more than NH's course does. Bottom line I got my check back after 9 months and a new cert from USPS that now says NASBLA approved.
So for anymore old timers who have an old USPS cert that doesn't say NASBLA you could encounter a problem if stopped.