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Safety and Operations

Boating Courses

Operating a boat requires a greater skill than operating a car or truck. To enjoy a pleasurable and safe boat-

ing experience you must acquire these skills. Some recommendations are:

• Take a Coast Guard, United States Power Squadron boating safety course. For information call: 800-336-BOAT

(2628), or

• Take a boating safety course offered by local colleges or boating clubs.

• Obtain “hands-on” training from qualified personnel on how to operate your vessel.

Boating courses help you to gain knowledge and experience in such areas as, but is not limited to: naviga-

tion, seamanship, rules of the road, weather, safety at sea, survival, first aid, communications, and pollu-

tion control.

Basic Seamanship

As the owner/operator it is your responsibility to learn the “rules-of-the-road” and under-

stand basic seamanship rules and standards, as only rudimentary information is repeated

here.

In practical terms boats that are less maneuverable have the right-of-way over more agile vessels. In gen-

eral a power-driven vessel must give way to the following:

• A sailing vessel under sail only (engine(s) not running).

– When the sailboat is under engine power, it is considered a power-driven vessel.

• Vessels propelled by oars or paddles.

• A commercial fishing vessel engaged in fishing.

– This does not apply to sportfishers or party boats.

• Vessels with restricted maneuverability, such as:

– Tow boats.

– A vessel engaged in dredging activities or work that restricts it to a specific area.

– A vessel engaged in the transfer of supplies from one vessel to another.

• A vessel not under command, broken down.

Meeting Situations

When meeting in various situations the give-way vessel must take action to avoid a collision and maintain

a safe distance. The stand-on vessel should maintain course and speed.

If it becomes apparent that a collision is possible and the give-way vessel is not taking cor-

rective action, it is your responsibility to take action and avoid a collision.

Meeting Head-On

When two boats meet head-on neither boat has the right-of-way. Both boats should reduce speed and pass

port-to-port (Figure 2-21).

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