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Each year the Drum Point Flotilla of the United States Coast Guard Auxiliary offers complete boating safety classes that meet Coast Guard and Maryland Department of Natural Resources Police requirements.  All persons born on or after July 1, 1972, must successfully complete a boating safety course to operate a numbered or documented vessel, including personal watercraft on Maryland’s public waters. (No one under 16 years of age may operate a PWC and no one under 12 may operate a vessel towing persons on water skis etc.)

The course covers boating rules, seamanship, safety, boat types and hulls, piloting, boat engines, marine weather, marine radio operation,  PWC (Personal Water Craft) operation and more. This Coast Guard Auxiliary course is the most comprehensive boating safety course available.  When you complete the course and successfully pass the final examination, you will have earned your U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary Boating Skills and Seamanship Course card as well as your Maryland DNR Certificate of Boating Safety Education.

You must always have the DNR card in your possession when operating any numbered or documented vessel including a PWC!

Members of the Coast Guard Auxiliary Drum Point Flotilla 23-06 teach each section of the course. The Auxiliary members are well versed in boating safety and in the local area’s marine environment.  Attending this boating safety course is an excellent way to become familiar with the Auxiliary if you are considering membership. You will learn more about the Auxiliary and can then decide if you would like to become one of America’s volunteer life savers as well! Completing this course is one of the first steps toward becoming a Basically Qualified member of the Auxiliary.

Coast Guard Auxiliary Drum Point Flotilla 23-06

The Boating Skills and Seamanship course is held at Calvert High School, 600 Dare’s Beach Road in Prince Frederick, MD. The class begins on Wednesday, January 21, 2009 and runs from 7:00 – 9:00 PM. The cost is just $35.00 per student. This price covers the cost of the course manual.

To register ahead of time or to get more information please call Coast Guard Auxiliary member:

Bill Noyes  410-535-0450

or

Ray Feller 301-358-0837

The boating safety courses offered by the Coast Guard Auxiliary are exciting and fun for members of the whole family. A boating-safely family is a happy family!

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