Is a Boating Certificate REALLY necessary?

[Mr. V]

SO: Maybe driving your boat without a "Certificate" holds the same kind of.....Adventure. We have to appreciate that..don't we.. NB

You don't understand.

It is not because I crave adventure that I ask the question, and presuppose a willingness to take the risk.

It is because the cost of a ticket is less than the cost of taking the course, if you factor time spent with it.

Fifty bucks, that's nothing.

Heck, I sometimes risk more than that on one roll of the dice at a craps table.

Why should piloting a boat be any different?