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State Specific Boating Safety Course

The BoatUS Foundation offers the only FREE online boating safety course developed specifically for your state. An optional $20 donation will be added to your cart to help keep our course free. (You will be able to change or remove it before checkout.)

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State Specific Boating Safety Course

Featured Courses

Trailering

Discover exciting, new destinations with your boat! Lean how to safely trailer, launch, and retrieve your boat with confidence. In this course your will also learn the important parts of the trailer, hitch, and tow vehicle, and how to maintain them for safe trailering. Plus, learn boat ramp etiquette and tips on the fine art of towing.

$34.95

Aids to Navigation (ATON) Basics

This course is designed to help new boaters understand the meaning of basic buoys and markers, typically referred to as Nav Aids, or more officially known as Aids to Navigation (ATONs). With lots of interactive learning modules, engaging video scenarios and a knowledge review quiz, the student will have fun learning the basics of visual navigation.

FREE

S.C.A.N. – Improving Boater Situational Awareness

This course is designed to enhance boater situational awareness using the S.C.A.N. method (Search, Concentrate, Analyze, Navigate) to stay focused and avoid collisions. The course also offers practical strategies to mitigate common operator distractions. Through engaging video scenarios and interactive quizzes, learners will practice key techniques to reinforce their knowledge.

FREE