| New Year Resolutions for Boaters |
The Oregon State Marine Board suggests New Years Resolutions for boaters that don’t involve any sort of dieting, and are short term goals with immediate results.
Resolution #1 Don’t Drink and Boat,
Operating a boat takes attention and skill. Driving a boat can be more challenging than driving a car. So please don’t Drink and boat.
Resolution #2 Wear your Life Jacket,
Life jackets are the single most important piece of equipment a boater can have. In Oregon, 90% of boating fatality victims were not wearing a life jacket.
Resolution #3 Never Launch a Dirty Boat,
The 2009 Oregon Legislature passed two new laws affecting boaters in order to protect Oregon Waterways. The Clean Launch Law prohibits launching a boat if any visible aquatic species are on the hull. The other new law the Aquatic Invasive Species Prevention Program aims to educate boaters about the threat of Invasive Aquatic species and create an inspection program to detect and prevent aquatic invasive species from entering our waterways.