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Other Activities => Fishing => Topic started by: FC on June 18, 2012, 06:20:34 PM

Title: You are all safer now!
Post by: FC on June 18, 2012, 06:20:34 PM: I have taken the "Boater's Safety Course", what a joke! Don't forget to take the stupid thing and wind up with a ticket.

This one is a free class that you take and fill out a form, put it, $10 and a copy of the certificate you got from the course to the state (they give you the address).

http://www.boatus.org/onlinecourse/default.asp
Title: Re: You are all safer now!
Post by: Bone_Collector on June 18, 2012, 06:33:41 PM: Right on! Are you going to post all the answers for us?

B_C
Title: Re: You are all safer now!
Post by: FC on June 18, 2012, 06:41:06 PM: Quote from: Bone_Collector on June 18, 2012, 06:33:41 PM
Right on! Are you going to post all the answers for us?

B_C

If anyone would actually benefit from that...HELL NO! The worst part about the course is that every time you turn a page you have to wait 23 seconds before turning the next, the second worst is that there is very little practical knowledge in a course that takes about 8 hours...
Title: Re: You are all safer now!
Post by: oldcamper on June 18, 2012, 06:42:39 PM: Good deal, if you did receive a ticket for not having one they would remember you and keep giving you more tickets. So now that you did get the cert, the states budget problems will just have to continue. :IBCOOL:
Title: Re: You are all safer now!
Post by: TONTO on June 18, 2012, 07:32:49 PM: Been meaning to get one, but as of tomarow I'm good again till the end of the year :chuckle: Sometimes it pays off getting older.

Actualy I tested out way back when before the card came about, just to lazy to send in the paper work.
Title: Re: You are all safer now!
Post by: wraithen on June 18, 2012, 08:31:23 PM: There's still courses you can go straight to the exam. Just costs a bit more.
Title: Re: You are all safer now!
Post by: Bone_Collector on June 18, 2012, 08:52:55 PM: Well I have looked over the exam but I have no intentions of taking it. It just seems like a waste of time to me plus there is an exemption in there that allows me to skate by!

B_C
Title: Re: You are all safer now!
Post by: carpsniperg2 on June 18, 2012, 09:40:26 PM: I took it a few years back when I got my guides license. Not very much useful or practical info in the test.
Title: Re: You are all safer now!
Post by: Bone_Collector on June 19, 2012, 04:44:09 AM: I do think it is a pile of crap that you have to send in a $10 payment so they can process your application which they are forcing you to send in!

B_C
Title: Re: You are all safer now!
Post by: Carnivore on June 19, 2012, 01:22:34 PM: I just did the at home course offered free from Washington state parks. I ordered online and they mail you a book and test pamphlet so you do an open book test. I mailed my test back and a few days later got my certificate of completion, now I mail that and $10.00 and get my card...oh boy :dunno: It was a pain but not all the info was useless. If someone is new to boating it may be helpful. At least I'm done now, I need my card in 2013.
Title: Re: You are all safer now!
Post by: oldcamper on June 19, 2012, 03:53:50 PM: I agree, its not all useless. There was some good information about bouys, and that they are different in Europe.
Title: Re: You are all safer now!
Post by: MtnMuley on June 19, 2012, 03:56:48 PM: Quote from: oldcamper on June 19, 2012, 03:53:50 PM
I agree, its not all useless. There was some good information about bouys, and that they are different in Europe.
:lol4:
Title: Re: You are all safer now!
Post by: Hunterman on June 19, 2012, 09:01:07 PM: Quote from: oldcamper on June 19, 2012, 03:53:50 PM
I agree, its not all useless. There was some good information about bouys, and that they are different in Europe.

Yep good info,,if you are going to take your boat to EUROPE..

Waste of my time to have to take it. Just another money grab by this glorious state we live in..

Hunteman(Tony)
Title: Re: You are all safer now!
Post by: KFhunter on June 19, 2012, 09:08:03 PM: I gotta do it this year, I got 15 books from parks dept mailed to me for free at WA taxpayers expense.

gonna fill em all out and mail them in for friends/family

stooopid - gawd I hate this damm nanny state BS craptastic garbage BS :crap: :crap: :liar: :liar: :stup: :stup: :mor: :mor: :pee: :pee: :bs: :bs:
Title: Re: You are all safer now!
Post by: RG on June 19, 2012, 09:09:27 PM: In most counties now it's an automatic ticket if you don't have it. I think the only other automatic ticket is not enough life jackets. That's not counting fish and game violations of course.
Title: Re: You are all safer now!
Post by: PlateauNDN on June 20, 2012, 09:46:02 AM: FC, I feel safer already, thank you. :chuckle: :chuckle: :chuckle:
Title: Re: You are all safer now!
Post by: Special T on June 20, 2012, 09:52:48 AM: I got to do it this year! :bash:
Title: Re: You are all safer now!
Post by: FC on June 20, 2012, 01:02:44 PM: Quote from: PlateauNDN on June 20, 2012, 09:46:02 AM
FC, I feel safer already, thank you. :chuckle: :chuckle: :chuckle:

...lol

Quote from: Special T on June 20, 2012, 09:52:48 AM
I got to do it this year! :bash:

Just get it over with, I wish you could just take the test and skip the class if you passed but no such luck.
Title: Re: You are all safer now!
Post by: h20hunter on June 20, 2012, 01:06:51 PM: I'm with you FC. Got my card a year or two ago to get it out of the way. Lots and lots of uselss information for the recreational boat owner. I leared more from a buddy or two out on their boats before I even had mine.
Title: Re: You are all safer now!
Post by: Special T on June 20, 2012, 01:18:55 PM: My family has had boats since i was 3. I've had Coastguard certifications and plenty of experience from yachts, ski boats, skiffs and canoe's... At least this one won't expire. :bash: