Prerequisites: None. No experience necessary!
Recommended Age: 10 - Adult
Class Time : 9am-Noon
Certifications Information:
This skill builder course does NOT qualify for a Boater Education Certification Card
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National Safe Boating Council - Module 4
This fourth skill-builder course focuses on Open Water Advanced Maneuvering. You will learn how to reach and come down from planing mode without getting stuck plowing your boat through the waves. When driving at speed, you will learn the important differences and skills used in gradual, sharp and avoidance turning maneuvers.
In open water, you will also come in close proximity to larger boats, so you will learn how to properly handles waves and wakes, emergency stops and man-overboard retrievals.
On the Water Sessions
- Properly Handle Wakes & Waves
- Emergency Stops
- Man-Overboard Retrievals
- Gradual, Sharp and Avoidance Turning Maneuvers.
- and more...
In open water, you will also come in close proximity to larger boats, so you will learn how to properly handles waves and wakes, emergency stops and man-overboard retrievals.
By learning these advanced maneuvering skills, you will be more confident and thus safer on the open water. And trust us, nothing is more embarassing that returning to port with fewer people that you left with. As Ricky used to tell Lucy, "you got a lot of explaining to do....".
Just don't be that guy!