- Do the following:
- a. Explain to your counselor the most likely hazards you may encounter while motorboating, and what you should do to anticipate, help prevent, mitigate, and respond to these hazards.
- b. Explain first aid for injuries or illnesses that could occur while motorboating, including hypothermia, heat reactions, dehydration, motion sickness, bugbites, and blisters.
- c. Identify the conditions that must exist before performing CPR on a person, and explain how such conditions are recognized. Demonstrate proper technique for performing CPR using a training device approved by your counselor.
- Do the following:
- a. Before doing requirements 3 through 6, successfully complete the BSA swimmer test.
Jump feet first into water over your head in depth, swim 75 yards in a strong manner using one or more of the following strokes: sidestroke, breaststroke, trudgen, or crawl; then swim 25 yards using an easy, resting backstroke. The 100 yards must be swum continuously and include at least one sharp turn. After completing the swim, rest by floating.
- b. Name the different types of personal flotation devices (PFDs), and explain when each type should be used. Show how to choose and properly fit a PFD.
- Do the following:
- a. Explain inboard, outboard, and inboard/outboard motors, and the uses and advantages of each. Discuss the special features of a bass boat and a ski boat.
- b. Explain the safety procedures and precautions involving handling fuel and engine servicing, and equipment storage and placement.
- c. Explain how to winterize a boat motor and tell why this procedure is necessary.
- d. Explain the safety procedures and precautions involving swimmers and skiers in the water, passenger positions underway, and boat wakes.
- Show you know safety laws for motorboating by doing the following:
- a. Have a permit to run a motorboat, if needed.
- b. Explain the rules or laws that apply to recreational boating in your area or state.
- c. Discuss how the hazards of weather and heavy water conditions can affect both safety and performance in motorboating.
- d. Promise that you will follow BSA Safety Afloat guidelines. Explain the meaning of each point.
- e. Discuss with your counselor the nautical rules of the road and describe the national and your state's aids to navigation.
- f. Explain and show the correct use of equipment required by both state and federal regulations to be carried aboard a motorboat.
- g. Explain federal and state rules for a ventilation system, and tell why these rules are required.
- h. Explain the use of lights (sight signals) and sound signals on motorboats.
- i. Discuss the common types of anchors used in motorboating and under what conditions each would be preferred. Explain proper anchoring techniques.
- With your counselor or other adults on board, demonstrate proper boat-handling procedures and skills by doing the following:
- a. Board and assist others in boarding.
- b. Fuel the boat and complete a safety check.
- c. Get underway from dockside or from a beach launch.
- d. Run a course for at least a mile, showing procedures for overtaking and passing slower craft, yielding right-of-way, passing oncoming traffic, making turns, reversing direction, and using navigation aids.
- e. Stop and secure the boat in position on the open water using anchors. Raise and stow the anchor and get underway.
- f. Land or dock the boat, disembark, and assist others in doing the same.
- g. Moor, dock, or beach the boat and secure all gear.
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