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National Safe Boating Week is underway with fresh focus
Each year over 140 million Americans take to the water on a boat. Making sure they get back to the…
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Annual Safe Boating Campaign set to deploy the weekend before Memorial Day
The National Safe Boating Council and its partners are kicking off the annual National Safe Boating Week campaign May 18-24,…
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Boating Safety
It’s the little things that’ll get you, how to avoid boating mistakes
You obey the pedestrian crossing signals but trip on the curb. Wear safety glasses but saw through a power cord.…
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Boating Safety
Capsized or swamped, stay with the boat!
It can seemingly happen in a heartbeat: a following wave stuffs and rolls your boat, and you’re in the water.…
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Boating Safety
File a float plan: Help others help you
OK, for the moment, don’t think of yourself as the boater in peril. Instead, imagine yourself as the loved one…
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Boating Safety
Boating accident? Don’t forget to report!
Crack up your car, and the responding police officer, sheriff’s deputy or state trooper files any required report. If you’re…
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Boating Safety
Boat safer by slowing down
Running the inlet, navigating the channel, backing into the slip: So much of what constitutes seamanship involves forging ahead with…
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Boating Safety
Safely navigate using buoys
In talking with boaters, be they readers, marina mates or folks I meet on the water, it’s become apparent that…
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Boating Safety
Rendering aid: How to safely tow other boats
You’re on your way home, feeling the last warmth of the sun as it kisses the horizon, when the cellphone…
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Boating Safety
Five Timeless Seamanship Lessons
In his Seamanship column for Boating’s July 1960 issue, Elbert Robberson wrote: “In daylight, objects around you are easy to…
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