Get Boating Certificate Free!!!!

this is approve by many states. http://www.boatus.org/onlinecourse/default.htm

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I looked at my card from when I took the course in elementary school and it was 20 years ago so I took it and got another cert. Not that it matters because I tried to study the buoy markings and all that when I went to Jacksonville so I would have a clue because all we have here is three no wake zones on the lake I boat on. The intra coastal kind of sucked when my depth gage went out. Awesome place to boat though. I made a trial run last Friday to see about watching fire works where you said to go. After a quick lesson about currents and not paying attention I now have a dinged up skeg and prop. We never made it to watch them because I didn't feel comfortable at night on there. Thanks though for the recommendations on where to go though.

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dinged up skeg and prop. 50 years of boating here, i have never damaged a boat.

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I could tell you where I did it if I was there. My son had to pee and would not go off the swim platform with the motor running so I shut it off and the current pushed us toward an island and a pier. When I went to start it the skeg was up on a rock. I went in forward and got another one. We were heading downtown, went around the shipyard. We went under a big bridge that they are working on and I cant remember the name of the road. After that we went around a bend and there was an island and past the island you could see the bridge again and there was a long pier. it was in between the two. I know my explanation kind of sucks but I was only in that part the one time. I am not used to currents like that and I just wasn't comfortable with all the big ships out there. Still had a good time heading back and going down to St. Augustine.

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Now I have two. Yay.

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sounds like the first bridge was the Dames Point, then the second was the Mathews, did you ever get downtown. last Thanksgiving i took my pontoon on a 6 hour cruise, from NAS Jacksonville, to the Jetties and back. had never done it in one trip before, and was a great trip and day. 33 gallons later.

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I think it was dames point bridge. I turned back after that because my kids were ready and my alarm kept going off and beeping. The alarm was going off on most of the way there so I wasnt to upset to turn back. The alarm ended up just being a faulty sensor. It was pretty cool to see all the dolphins swimming along with you though.

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yes there are many dolphin in that area.

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Thanks will do!! (boat certificate) Kentucky