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The Safe Boater™ Manual
The Safe Boater Training Manual™ is designed to teach you everything you need to know to prepare for and pass any Pleasure Craft Operator Card Challenge Tests! Completely redesigned in 2004, it is in illustrated in full colour with easy to read charts and diagrams.

It is Canadian Coast Guard approved and contains five detailed sections which include all 149 knowledge statements from which the Coast Guard guidelines require Challenge tests be created from.

Throughout the Safe Boater Manual™ you will find additional exercises and supporting graphics to help you understand the concepts discussed in the boating Manual. Whether it is the crossword puzzle to test your terminology or the fun ‘Aids to Navigation’ exercise that helps you find your way to “Hole In The Water Harbour” you will find no easier way to prepare for your Pleasure Craft Operator Card certification.
 Safe Boater Manual

To check your knowledge, at the end of each section is a set of Review Questions and at the end of The Safe Boater Manual™ there is a practice Challenge Test that contains the same content and format as all Pleasure Craft Operator Card tests.

As an added bonus, The Safe Boater Manual™ includes tips and check lists on how to stay safe on the water, including weather hints, a sample Trip Plan and Maintenance information.
Index of the contents:
  • Acts, Codes Regulations
  • Standards Decals Capacity Plates
  • Licensing Registration
  • Terminology
  • Mandatory Equipment
  • Equipment Knowledge
  • Navigation Lights
  • Aids to Navigation
  • Rules of the Road
  • Sound Signals
  • Maintenance
  • Loading Your Boat
  • Trip Plan
  • Refueling
  • Handling
  • Laws Courtesy
  • Weather
  • Anchoring
  • Distress Signals
  • And more . . .
Written by Andrew Stevenson with Mark King. Published by Fitzhenry &Whiteside Ltd., 2004.


This course has been accredited by the Canadian Coast Guard strictly on the basis that it meets the minimum requirements of the basic boating safety knowledge set out in the Canadian Coast Guard Boating Safety Course Standard.
   
Catalogue No. 1-55041-780-0
Price $25.00
Format Softcover
Pages 58
Language English only
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This page last modified: June 27, 2007
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