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Get out of the classroom and behind the wheel! US Powerboating offers the nation’s best and most comprehensive hands-on powerboat courses. Whether you’re looking for your first experience at the…

“Rubber” Docking

Purpose-Value: Practice and develop the boat handling skills of leaving and returning to a dock on both sides of a boat. Setting Up the Drill: Equipment: 4 to 6 buoys…

Mast Tip Lift

Purpose-Value: Practice and develop the rescue skill of approaching and righting a capsized sailboat, using the Mast Tip Lift method. Setting Up the Drill: Equipment: sailboat with flotation at top…

Minimum Control Speed

Purpose-Value: Practice and develop the boat handling skill of operating a boat with control at the slowest possible speed (slower than at idle speed) when docking, approaching a ramp or…

Minimum Control Speed Formation

Purpose-Value: Practice and develop the boat handling skill of operating a boat with control at the slowest possible speed (slower than at idle speed) when docking, approaching a ramp or…

Person-in-Water (PIW)/Crew Overboard (COB) Rescue

Purpose-Value: Practice and develop the boat handling skills of taking immediate and proper action when a person falls overboard and to successfully maneuver back to the person in the water…

Person-in-Water (PIW) Retrieval (dockside)

Purpose-Value: Practice the skill of bringing a person in the water onboard a boat using appropriate equipment and techniques, and to determine limitations in successful retrievals. Setting Up the Drill:…

Pivot Turn

Purpose-Value: Practice and develop the boat handling skill of turning a boat in a confined space (e.g., marina, a narrow channel) or to avoid hitting an object. Setting Up the…

Securing Boat (dockside)

Purpose-Value: Practice and develop the skill of safely securing a boat to a dock or slip with appropriate docklines, knots, and line tension for the existing and forecasted conditions. Setting…

Hold Position – Upwind

Purpose-Value: Hold a boat in a fixed position while waiting for dock space, ramp access, or a bridge or lock to open. Stresses the importance of the maxim, “Keep the…