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5 Boating Safety Tips

It’s never too soon to begin thinking about boating safety. But beyond life jackets, what you should prepare or bring? Check out five tips for boating safety that wil...
5 Tips to Stay Safe While Renting a Boat

Part of boating happy is boating safely. To help you rent or charter a watercraft safely and legally, GetMyBoat provides each owner and renter with templates, checklists, re...
5 Ways to Stay Safe While Renting out Your Boat

Part of boating happy is boating safely. To help you rent or charter your watercraft safely and legally, GetMyBoat provides each owner and renter with templates, checklists,...
How to Screen a Renter on GetMyBoat

One of the most important questions about renting your boat out is, who is the renter? Can this person safely operate my watercraft? You have put a lot of time, money, and e...
What is a Float Plan?

Whenever you go boating, it’s a good idea to let people know where you are going and when you expect to return. Accidents do happen on the water. Whether on an inland ...
Boating in Cold Weather Tips

The lure of the open water, even during cold weather, can be overpowering. In locales where year-round boating is possible, do not let the cold keep you from experiencing a ...
How to Check a Boat for Seaworthiness

Essentially, a boat is seaworthy if it will not sink. If the vessel can be used for the purposes it was designed for as well as safely handle any condition the crew encounte...
Boating Laws and Regulations by States

GetMyBoat wants everyone to boat safely. Check out the United States Coast Guard website for information on federal laws and federal regulations, as well as navigation rules...
Safety Items Checklist

GetMyBoat provides a downloadable Safety Items Checklist. Each owner should have a copy to review while at the boat, and each renter should have a copy before and during the...
General Tips for Safe Boating

No matter what kind of watercraft you may use during your boating trip, there are a number of protocols you should follow. By adhering to these straightforward tips, you wil...
Emergency and Personal Locator Beacons

Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacons and Personal Locator Beacons are devices often used in the maritime industry on commercial and personal vessels alike. Their func...
Safety Tips for Sailing

Sailing is a fun and adventurous pastime, but it does come with its own particular hazards. However, with careful planning, preparation, common sense, boating knowledge, and...
How to Protect from Lightning on a Boat

There are many safety issues involved when boating. One to not take likely is the possibility of a thunderstorm at sea and dealing with the inevitable byproduct – ligh...
Visual Distress Signals

Visual Distress Signals (VDS) are an integral part of every vessel’s safety equipment, regardless of boat size or purpose. Simply stated, a visual distress signal is a...
The Purpose of Boat Anchor Lights

With all of its risks and rewards, boating during the day can be complicated enough, so it follows that boating at night is an even more complex task, as the darkness adds t...
What is Digital Selective Calling

Recreational boating has become far more complex than just a few short years ago, particularly marine communications. Technology that once was only available to or required ...
Guide to Sound Signals

On a calm day, you can see for miles from your boat, and it may be difficult to imagine why you might need to signal with sounds – all boats are visible and seem easy ...
Waste Management on Boats

The topic of waste management is an urgent concern of global proportions that spans the environment, public health and safety, and the economy. Communities are furthering ef...
How to Handle a Boat's Wake

On a pleasant afternoon of cruising and exploration, the captain suddenly calls for everyone to “hold on” followed by a sharp veer to port. Guests get tossed to ...
How to Choose the Right Type of Boating Sunglas...

When the sky is blue, the sun is out, the sea is calm — and, if you are a sailor, the wind is up — you have all the ingredients for a perfect day. The headache y...
Electronic Ship Logs

Keeping a log is a great way to have a record of maintenance, use, and memories on your boat. This is a practice that is as old as journaling itself, and it can create a ric...
10 Safety Items for Offshore Boating

Safety on the water is important whether you are traveling for an hour or a year. Though the list of safety items for a short trip in a small pond or river is short (often j...
Guide to Life Jackets for Kids

Getting kids to wear life jackets can be a cumbersome task — bulky neon padded vests don't exactly shout cool. But the risks of not wearing them are too great to...
5 Kinds of PFDs

No matter how light the breeze is or how calm the surface of the water, all boaters should remember and respect the power of the sea. To do so is to make safety a top priori...
How to Use a Marine Radio

One of the most important pieces of equipment on a boat is a VHF marine radio. Boaters who plan on going more than a few miles from shore should also have an MF/HF radiotele...

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