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WOW-sponsored power boat clinic open to all club members age 18 and older.

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You already know that driving a sailboat isn't like driving a car. Well, driving a power boat isn't quite like driving a sailboat. In this class we are just offering some general knowledge and practice time to help you feel more confident when it’s your turn to drive a club power boat.

TIME:
Coffee and donuts at 8:45am
Class from 9:00am to noon

50-minutes on each boat is goal.

LOCATION:
Meet in the Clubhouse Board Room at 9:00am

PREREQUISITES:
* Must be age 18 or older & a WCSC Club Member
* Completion of a boater safety course.

If you need a course, BoatUS offers an approved online course for free (est time 3-4 hours). Click the link below for more information.

https://www.boatus.org/southcarolina

And DNR offers a free, 6 hour, in person course. Click the link below for more information.

https://www.dnr.sc.gov/education/boated.html

WHAT TO BRING:
* Your Boater Safety card
* A PFD/ Life Jacket
* Water, Sunscreen, and anything else you need to be on the water until noon

SCHEDULE:

Talk time (shoals, buoy numbers, between islands driving, no-wake zone, emergency kill-switch cord, springlines, fuel, ignition keys, slow-medium-fast speeds, and anchor demonstration)
Walk to race committee shed located near launch ramp and C-dock, where ignition keys are stored.
Get fuel from fuel shed for each power boat, store temporarily at race committee shed.
Conduct anchor demonstrations at launch ramp using Pontoon/Race Committee/Signal boat. Rich for Windlass. Michelle for manual. Students on dock.
Return Pontoon to its stored location at C-dock and students return to race committee shed.
Separate students into groups of 3.
Choose which group goes to which power boat.
Each student trio goes with guide, fuel, keys to their respective boat for first 50-minute session.
Student trio no. 1 is on Whaler with Michelle. Whaler located at Junior dock.
Student trio no. 2 is on Skiff with Allison. Skiff located at C-dock.
Student trio no. 3 is on Pontoon with Rich. Pontoon located at C-dock.
Each student trio to be on each boat for 50-minutes to start, leave dock, operate out into lake beyond breakwater, return to dock, end trip. While on boat students to rotate piloting boat, leaving/returning to dock, untying/tying up, starting/ending trip.
Michelle on Whaler educates between island maneuverings.
Allison on Skiff educates on buoy numbers
Rich on Pontoon educates on shoals.
Student trio to rotate to next boat for second 50-minute session and upon conclusion, go to last boat for third 50-minute session.

And in case you have an interest in expanding your skills further, our local TowBoat US Lake Hartwell is offering three-hour at-the-helm boating courses. For more information, click on the link below.

TowBoat US Lake Hartwell