Just a couple of comments regarding Varney Points post. If the state is going to cross reference boat registrations with boater certificates the state may need to take away the ability of marinas to register boats. I'm not sure the state wants marinas to have access to their computers to check this.
The other problem is there are many people who have already taken or not taken(someone else took the test for them) the online test. So even though everyone is required to have the boater certificate by 2008, many people either did not receive an adequate level of knowledge or did not complete it at all even though they have the certificate so there will still be alot of uninformed people out there boating. The only way to correct that would be to force all who took the online course to go to a classroom course & if they don't, they lose their boaters certificate until they do.
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