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The one thing that does make me a bit sympathetic to basic training
requirements for boating is the right of way rules. It would be nice if everyone out there knew them and I wouldn't have had my one boating accident (hole on the port side). I agree and that is the main reason I favor these kinds of rules. Everybody should know the right of way stuff and how to interpret navaids, and the basics of how to interpret lights on boats, read charts, stuff like that, and if they make everyone take eight hours out of their lives to sit through the course, then they'll know it, and WE'LL ALL BE SAFER. It's not even like driving cars where you've had exposure to the basics and probably know all the rules just from having sat in a vehicle and watched your parents do it for sixteen years before you get behind the wheel. Newcomers to boating might know nothing of the basics, so it's just a good idea, it seems to me, that we REQUIRE them to learn it. If someone already knows it I have no problem with them just taking the course, getting the cert without having to sit through a class, although I think it shows a better attitude if you're willing to take it anyway with the idea that maybe you'll still learn something anyway! richforman |
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