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Originally Posted by Paugus Bay Resident
I believe only results of proctored exams are valid. You can take the course on-line, but the exam portion needs to be proctored.
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New Hampshire has painted itself in to a corner with its recent change in boater education rules. As we are all aware, effective the begining of this year you can still take the boater safety course on-line, but you must take a proctored exam to receive your certificate.
Also, the on line course is still being hosted by Boat-ed, a NASBLA certified course instructor.
The fly in the ointment is that the other 35 states that require a safe boating certificate also contract on-line with Boat-ed and each of those other 35 states still allow and honor the on-line certificate testing process! These other 35 states offer reciprocity with each other & the State of New Hampshire.
So, what does the NHMP do now? It clearly requires New Hampshire residents to take a proctored exam but it has no ability to dictate how other States grant their certificates other than to require the originating source is NASBLA approved. Additionally (if everyone remembers) many individuals received certificates in New Hampshire that has "
source: internet" stamped on it, while others (like me) did not.
Further aggravating the situation is that a number of States the we have reciprocity with do not indicate the source of the license on the license itself, and unlike motor vehicle licenses there is no nationwide database that an MP can check!
My best and only advice to Homewood is to call Captain Mark Gallagher at New Hampshire Marine Patrol HQ and get the State's policy for dealing with out-of-state licenses directly from the source.
Captain Gallagher can be reached at:
603-293-2037
In the interim I will also see if I can find out what the NHMP policy will be regarding this issue.
Very interesting!
