VA Boating Compliance

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Just a reminder for boaters operating in Virginia.

As of July 1, 2016, Virginia requires all boaters to complete a boating safety course approved by the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries before July 1, 2016.

I hate to see anyone get a fine out on the water...sure they'll be out in force this coming weekend.

You can always take the free course and exam here if you need to.

elearning.boatus.org/catalog/course.asp?id=49&cid=1
 
Oo! Oo! You mean this one didn't start in California [:O]
 
Everybody? I thought there was a phase in til 2020.
 
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Originally posted by KiDa

Everybody? I thought there was a phase in til 2020.

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Yep, everyone. It did get phased in but, to 2016.
 
Kinda crazy though. My first skipper had to take the course. I guess 30+ years behind the wheel with over 45 million pounds of iron at his last at sea O6 command would count for something..........NOPE!
 
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Originally posted by KiDa

Kinda crazy though. My first skipper had to take the course. I guess 30+ years behind the wheel with over 45 million pounds of iron at his last at sea O6 command would count for something..........NOPE!

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And i'll bet in all 30 years he never had to worry about the legal operating hours for a PWC or the licensing requirements for a powerboat.
 
I'm with JD - and you guys are in luck, as my USCG Aux flotilla is offering a class later this month . . . just take the intercoastal waterway NORTH to Manasquan Inlet in New Jersey, then make a left into the Atlantic. Continue NNE for 30NM or so, and bear LEFT at the Ambrose Channel. Continue under the Verrazano Narrows Bridge, then keeping the Statue of Liberty on your port side, enter the Hudson River northbound. Continue to Peekskill Bay (Please observe the No Wake Zone and RNA at the new Tappan Zee Bridge construction area at mile 26), and park in the visitor spots in Peekskill Yacht club (41deg 16.58N -73deg 56.14W) . . ..

Couldn't be easier to comply with State law!
 
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Originally posted by j-d

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Originally posted by KiDa

I guess 30+ years behind the wheel with over 45 million pounds of iron at his last at sea O6 command would count for something
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Actually looks like it could... http://www.dgif.virginia.gov/boating/lifetime-boater-card/

I hope some of those needing a class will choose a classroom program. Opportunity to learn and contribute. http://cgaux.org/boatinged/class_finder/

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One would think his DD 214 (Certificate of Release or Discharge from Active Duty) listing Commanding Officer, USS Blue Ridge (LCC-19) would suffice. Although we did have an aviator on board who made Flag who also "bumped" into a Russian sub when he was CO of a carrier. <OOPS!!>
 
David,

From what I saw on the DGIF site I linked, the DD-214 would work.

Good Grief,

I like your idea. Classroom training associated with on the water demonstration.
 
Thanks, forced me to dig thru my wallet to make sure I still Had my USPS card showing I passed the course in 1997.
 
3-4 years ago, I called DGIF and they had our records from the mid 90's as to all in my family passing the course and they sent us our cards.
 
Just keep moving cards from old wallets to new. Starting to look like George Costanza's wallet.
 
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Originally posted by Gregory S

Just keep moving cards from old wallets to new. Starting to look like George Costanza's wallet.

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Please go no further. I care not about the wallet and DEFINITELY have no desire to know if you were in the pool or not!!!!
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