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We have 8 Squadrons that would love for you to "come aboard". Depending on where you live and boat in Indiana, Western Kentucky or Western Ohio you can take FREE boating classes to start your education experience.

The United States Power Squadron; is the premiere educational/fraternal and largest boating organization in the world. covering all 50 states, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands and Japan.  USPS is made up of 33 Districts (regional units) and 462 Squadrons (local units) USPS is a non-profit boating education organization.  Our goal is the promotion of the highest standards of navigation, seamanship and continuing boating education.  Members are families who contribute to their communities by by promoting safe boating on the the water and in the classroom.   For sail and power boating we are:   America's Boating Club®

District 24 is comprised of 8 Squadrons.

  District 24 encompasses three states: Mid and Southern Indiana, Western Kentucky, and Western Ohio. This large area offers many boating opportunites for squadron members including the Ohio River running through Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio, Kentucky Lake (Tennessee River) and Lake Barkley (Cumberland River) in Western Kentucky. Other major boating areas include the Wabash River, and Lake Monroe near Bloomington, IN. Most D/24 squadrons have a website (see links below) and we invite you to visit the squadron's website closest to your area of boating. Take some time and click the tabs above to learn more about District 24, the Squadrons, and the men and women do donate their time to keep the District functioning.

Looking for information about boating businesses, organizations, and magazines?  Click this "Nautical Tools " link!  

Here's a link to "Boats for Sale" by members of District 24.

 

Cdr. Robert J. Grenda 

Cdr. James Hawking 

Cdr. Cynthia Robertson 

Cdr. Robert W. Hanseman 

Cdr. Sam Richey 

     




 

Cdr. Mark Winzenread, AP 

 

Cdr. Tony Tagliarino 

 

Cdr. Merrill L. Bonebrake 

     

 

 

 
Click here to read the story and see the video narrated by Tom Hanks about the 9/11 Mariners Boat Lift rescue efforts.
 
Vincent Ardolino, captain of the Amberjack V, was at home in Brooklyn, watching the burning buildings on TV. He said, "I gotta go do something," kissed his wife goodbye, dashed to his charter boat. These men, and hundreds like them, pushed their boats into the harbor, and filled over and over with dazed passengers. That the evacuation was unplanned and unrehearsed is remarkable. But what is even more impressive is that not a single person was injured in the process. The story of the 9/11 boatlift is a reminder of the sense of shared purpose and resilience that pervaded New York - and the world - in the immediate aftermath of the atta
 
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