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Basic Boating Skills Compact Disk

 

The Basic Boating Skills Compact Disk (CD) is no longer available from USPS Headquarters. This page is only here for archival purposes.

 

The Basic Boating Skills CD of PowerPoint presentations for all public boating course offerings was shipped to all SEOs and DEOs in March 2004. Additional copies, if needed, can be ordered from Headquarters for Boat Smart, Boating Course, and Chart Smart. It also includes the ABC presentations released previously as well as This Is USPS, an introduction of USPS to be used in public boating courses. The presentations include all of the new graphics that have been revised in the Boat Smart 2004 and The Squadron Boating Course (Boating) 2004 student manuals.

At the Spring Governing Board Meeting, June 2005, an enhanced version 4.0 of the Basic Boating Skills CD was provided to all DEOs. DEOs should duplicate this CD and distribute to squadrons. Version 4.0 includes expanded PowerPoint slides for The Squadron Boating Course (Boating) 2004. In the Boating section of the CD, new PowerPoint presentations on Using Digital Charts are included. Click here to view the general menu screens (a 475 KB ppt file) of the CD. (05 Dec 05)

Updates to the Basic Boating Skills CD are below.

America's Boating Course

Corrections to America’s Boating Course slides are available to assist instructors using ABC in a classroom.

  • Chapter_1_V1.0.ppt (546KB), Know Your Boat, slide 15 has been revised; changed Class 3 description to “less than 65 feet”. (16 Nov 04)
  • Chapter_2_Review_V1.0.ppt (541KB), Before You Get Underway, slide 5 has been revised; changed answer to “c”. (16 Nov 04)
  • Chapter_3_V1.0.ppt (1,193KB), Navigating The Waterways, slide 21, added label of “mid-channel” buoy; slide 28, moved location of junction buoy and deleted green day-marker #1 in secondary channel. (16 Nov 04)
  • Chapter_3_Review_V1.0.ppt (538KB), Navigating The Waterways, slide 6, changed answer to “c”; slide 11, changed answer to “c”. (16 Nov 04)

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The Squadron Boating Course

  • BC_12_Nav_Rules.ppt (341KB), slide 24 has been revised.  The color of the boat's port side running lights has been corrected. (11 Nov 05)
  • BC_13_Positioning.ppt (169KB), slide 6 has been corrected.  "W" has been added to the variation.  (26 Oct 04)
  • BC_05_Charts.ppt (75KB), slide 24 has been corrected. (11 Oct 04) 
  • BC_03_VHF_Radio.ppt (1704KB), slides 13, 14, 15, and 16 have been corrected. (11 Oct 04)

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Boat Smart

  • BS_S1_Update_Insert_at_Slide_84.ppt (524KB), five new slides are provided that should be inserted after slide 84, Section 1, titled Water Sport Safety.  The Water Sport Safety slide has been included in the update in case you have renumbered your slides and can not easily locate the original slide #84 (do not duplicate #84). The update includes material on River Boating Considerations, Conventional Dams, Low Head Dams, and safety measures if trapped in fast flowing waters. (06 Apr 06)
  • BS_S1_Update_Insert_at_Slide_93.ppt (443KB), two new slides are provided that should be inserted after slide 93, Section 1, titled PWCs and Water Skiing. The PWC and Water Skiing slide has been included in the update in case you have renumbered your slides and can not easily locate the original slide #93 (do not duplicate #93). The update includes material on Water Skiing Hand Signals and instructions to hold a water ski high in the air when downed. (06 Apr 06)
  • BS_S3_Rules.ppt (275KB), slide 29 has been revised.  The Danger Zone color has been changed to yellow to minimize confusion with the port side light color of red. (26 Oct 04)
  • BS_S3_Rules.ppt (1701KB), slides 75, 76, 77, and 78 have been corrected. (11 Oct 04)

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