Letting your kids drive the boat with you present is nothing new. I am doing it now with both my boys... giving them short stents behind the well and letting the get used to how to control the boat.
If we didn't do things like this how would the next generation learn?
Do I let them drive in congested situations? No of course not
Do I let them drive in adverse weather conditions? No of course not
Do I let them drive full out on the throttle? No of course not
Do they go out alone? of course not
Why? Because they are just learning.... slowly they will do more, and yes when appropriate they will go to the boating safety course, and once I have
complete confidence they will go out alone.
While things like the boating safety cert. have been instituted for a reason, they haven't been instituted to make it impossible for the next generation to learn....
Learning is a process, that takes time... In my case it hasn't been until the kids where older that they took an interest in driving.. now they have and I am letting them learn.
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