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WE ARE INSPECTING BOATS Be ready for a safe boating season
Have your boat inspected by one of our award winning inspectors.
The 2013 decals are available from your boat examiner.
Call today to have your boat inspected.
69 boats have already been inspected this year.

Vessel Safety Checks

What is a Vessel Safety Check?
A specially trained member of our squadron will
visit your boat (vessel) to examine the presence
and condition of safety equipment required by
State and Federal Regulations. This is a public
service by a volunteer. There is no charge.

Vessel Safety Checks cover all sorts of recreational
boats from kayaks, canoes, and personal
watercraft, to ocean going sail and power vessels.

Depending on the size and type of boat, the
examiner will look at such things as personal
flotation devices, emergency signals, fire
extinguishers, navigation lights, horns, and the like.

The visit is relatively short, friendly and designed
to be helpful. You will enjoy and learn from it.

What a Vessel Safety Check is not?
A Vessel Safety Check is not a boarding by a law enforcement person. In fact, it
has nothing to do with law enforcement.

Rather, the examiner is someone just like you - a recreational boater, but with
one difference. The examiner has been certified as knowledgeable about the
types of equipment you are required to have onboard.

Results of an inspection are never given to any law enforcement person or
agency

Why should I have one?
You will be given a copy of the results so that you may
follow up on any suggestions the examiner makes.

If your boat passes the inspection, you will be given a
distinctive VSC decal like the one here. The decal says to
the world that your boat has been inspected and found to
comply with safety equipment requirements.

While the decal will not exempt you from a possible future
boarding by the U.S. Coast Guard or other enforcement
agencies, you will be prepared to make it a positive one.

If for some reason your boat does not pass, the examiner
will be pleased to come again after you have had time to
correct the deficiency.