Newbie

[Sman]

If your going to be a weekend boater, do this if you do nothing else.

1. When driving your boat keep your head on a 360 degree swivel... boats are not like cars and others can come at you from any direction

This point is so so important because you do not typically do this in a car, unless your at a 4 way intersection maybe....on busy weekends when I drive I put my social obligations to the side and my head works like a lawn sprinkler, spinning around and looking for boats, markers, big ugly waves, etc...not frantically but just constantly scanning. At the busiest weekend times, different size boats come from different directions at different speeds and you really need to do this.

Woodsy got it right with point 1