Boater Safety Training Effectiveness?

Kamper · 10-27-2007, 09:55 PM

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Originally Posted by John A. Birdsall

... I think that they will suspend your license to drive a boat for a period of time ... And suspend their right to drive and they could care less about that also. ...

IF you get DWI in a car the revocation terminology is "motor vehicle" so you cant operate a boat either. There was a push a while back to make BWI impact your highway privileges too but it went nowhere. I think some states have interpreted their DWI sanctions as being the same for land or water. I expect that will be looked at again here, if the Safety Certificate program doesnt achieve aprciable results.

IMO. That would be easier to implement than a leisure boat license program.

Silver Duck · 10-28-2007, 09:36 AM

APS

You're probably correct that I notice close passages more at 1200 - 1500 RPM than I would at my cruising speed 3500 RPM; also, more boats are passing us when operating at low speed. Another factor is that my wake at 7 MPH provides less inducement to Cap't. Bonehead to keep his distance than it does at 35 MPH.

However, the fact remains that, while I was running at hull speed, the Cap't. and a whole lot of his boneheaded relatives chose to play "strafe the old farkle in the slow moving cruiser" at distances that even the Cap't. couldn't mistake for 150 ft.

(No real harm done as long as the other boat physically misses me, but somewhat annoying!)

There also seems to be an almost universal asumption that a slow moving boat is automatically the "give-way boat" in a crossing situation.

(Which I typically do anyway, just out of courtesy.)

Getting back to the original topic, does anybody know whether the curriculum is different in the classroom instruction from what it was in the internet course?

If so, is there more emphasis on actual safety matters in the classroom instruction?

Silver Duck

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10-28-2007, 09:36 AM	#2
Silver Duck Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Billerica, MA Posts: 364 Thanks: 40 Thanked 4 Times in 3 Posts	APS You're probably correct that I notice close passages more at 1200 - 1500 RPM than I would at my cruising speed 3500 RPM; also, more boats are passing us when operating at low speed. Another factor is that my wake at 7 MPH provides less inducement to Cap't. Bonehead to keep his distance than it does at 35 MPH. However, the fact remains that, while I was running at hull speed, the Cap't. and a whole lot of his boneheaded relatives chose to play "strafe the old farkle in the slow moving cruiser" at distances that even the Cap't. couldn't mistake for 150 ft. (No real harm done as long as the other boat physically misses me, but somewhat annoying!) There also seems to be an almost universal asumption that a slow moving boat is automatically the "give-way boat" in a crossing situation. (Which I typically do anyway, just out of courtesy.) Getting back to the original topic, does anybody know whether the curriculum is different in the classroom instruction from what it was in the internet course? If so, is there more emphasis on actual safety matters in the classroom instruction? Silver Duck