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Water Jet Devices Present New Possibilities Stand Up MARCH-APRIL 2015 | VOL. 30 NO. 2 National Association of State Boating Law Administrators SCAsmall craft advisory Water jet devices present new possibilities Stand up paddleboarding gains popularity Tubing tutorial for boaters DEPARTMENTS SCAsmall craft advisory 2 NASBLA NEWS 7KHRIÀFLDOSXEOLFDWLRQRI WKH1DWLRQDO$VVRFLDWLRQ 16 PARTNER PERSPECTIVES RI6WDWH%RDWLQJ/DZ$GPLQLVWUDWRUV 21 18 President Eleanor Mariani COAST GUARD COMMENTS Vice President Darren Rider 22 BOATING BRIEFS Treasurer Stephanie Weatherington 27 Past President Herb Angell BOATING FORCES FILES Members-at-Large Mark Brown Tom Guess Cody Jones Executive Editor John Johnson,CAE 15 Editors-at-Large Tom Hayward Ron Sarver, CAE Managing Editor Kimberly Jenkins Copy Editors Joseph McCullough FEATURES Fred Messmann Creative Director Grisell Botana 4 NASBLA launches Spring Angstrom Graphics Aboard campaign 5L^V\[YLHJOLɈVY[\YNLZIVH[LYZ[V Circulation Director Sam Lynch [HRLIVH[PUNZHML[`LK\JH[PVUJV\YZL Editorial Offices 1648 McGrathiana, Suite 360 Lexington, KY 40511 6 Water jet devices gain popularity Phone: 859.225.9487 1L[WYVWLSSLKKL]PJLZHYL[OLUL^LZ[ Fax: 859.231.6403 [OPUNVU[OL^H[LY E-mail: [email protected] 10 Touting safety for towed sports 5L^[V^LKHJ[P]P[PLZHYLNYV^PUN About the Cover PUWVW\SHYP[` 10 Boaters continue finding new ways to enjoy 15 Parasail Operators Symposium their time on the water. The cover photo regarded as huge success shows a young man who’s wake surfing, :[HRLOVSKLYZ^VYR[V^HYKZHML[` In this sport, a surfer trails behind a boat, surfing the boat’s wake without being directly attached to the boat. WSIA photo 20 New video focuses on inflatables safety >:0(YLSLHZLZ]PKLV[\[VYPHS MVYIVH[LYZ ©Small Craft Advisory (ISSM: 1066-2382) Published bimonthly by the National Association of State Boating Law Administrators, 21 What SUP? 1648 McGrathiana Parkway, Suite 360 :HML[`JVUZPKLYH[PVUZMVYZ[HUK Lexington, KY 40511 (six issues). \WWHKKSLIVHYKPUN Contact NASBLA for permission to reprint articles – 859.225.9487, [email protected]. 28 Protection and Surveillance Subscribe at nasbla.org/subscribe. 2L`Z[VZ[H`PUNZHMLPU[OLZ\U 10% Win an all expenses paid trip to... utiful... e to bea Welcom Kansas We know that winning an award—or a trip to Wichita—isn’t what drives boating educators. It’s a passion for making sure people are safe on the water. Which is why every year we send the three nominees for the Boating Safety Educator of the Year to the NASBLA Conference for the awards presentation. It’s our small way of saying thanks. Followalongaswe clawourwaytoWichita! We had a real lobster of a time last year in Maine. Now our 2014 NASBLA mascot is hitching a ride as we set our sights on the 2015 conference. What adventures await Barry the Claw on the long road to Kansas? Will he miss the salty air of Bar Harbor? Did he pack enough shoes? Do lobsters wear shoes? Stay tuned! Contact 1-877-722-8838 ext. 222 Kerry Moher - [email protected] NASBLA NEWS Help us plan next year’s [O(UU\HS5(:)3(*VUMLYLUJL conference :LW[LTILY >PJOP[H2HUZHZ Planning for the 56th Annual NASBLA Conference is underway, and we are seeking input from you on topic ideas and presentations for the event. We encourage presentations of all shapes and sizes; there’s no such thing as a crazy idea! We’re looking for content in all areas of recreational boating safety to help our audience explore new ways to tackle issues. The conference will be held September 13-16, 2015, in Wichita, Kansas. For more information and to suggest a topic for us to cover or to submit a proposal for a session, visit our call for proposals web page. The deadline for topic and session proposals is May 15. NASBLA holds 2015 BLA Workshop NASBLA hosted its BLA Workshop March 4-5, 2015, in Lexington, Ky. Recreational Boating Professional This annual two-day meeting provides Certification, underlying determinants boating authorities an opportunity to of recreational boating accidents, the attend sessions on current and emerging Uniform Certificate of Title for Vessels issues affecting boating program Act, regulatory changes in the standard management and engage in open dialog numbering system, vessel identification with their peers on topics specific to the system and boating accident report BLA and leadership positions. database, boating education reciprocity, and Sport Fish Restoration and Boating Topics covered included the national Trust Fund reauthorization. recreational boating safety grant program, most wanted boating safety improvements, NASBLA’s BOAT program, the new Spring Aboard Campaign, Operation Dry Water, 2 NASBLA.ORG March-April 2015 | Small Craft Advisory Capt. John Burton provides an update from the Coast Guard during the BLA Workshop. Also during the meeting, NASBLA recognized the graduates of the 2014-15 Leadership Academy: • Drew Aydelotte, Delaware • Zachary Campbell, Kentucky • Shane Carrier, Kentucky • AnnMarie Cruz, Guam • Ramona Fernandez, California • John Girvalakis, Massachusetts • Randolph Henry, Oregon • Aaron Kerr, Wyoming • Mike Miller, Ohio • Marlowe Sonksen, Maine • Tammy Terry, Ohio • Kenton Turner, Indiana • Ryan Walt, Pennsylvania • Kris Wahlers, Colorado In conjunction with this year’s workshop, NASBLA’s Executive Board, the Enforcement & Training committee, the Northern Caucus and the Southern Caucus held their spring meetings. Boating law administrators listen to NASBLA President Eleanor Mariani during the recent workshop. Sign up now to heightened enforcement during the Operation Dry Water weekend. participate in national As we enter the seventh year of BUI campaign Operation Dry Water, we look forward to working with all of you and anticipate Please join NASBLA and hundreds of local, The goal of Operation Dry Water is an even more widespread and successful state and federal law enforcement agencies to bring awareness to the dangers of campaign. Join Operation Dry Water! for Operation Dry Water 2015, a national boating under the influence as well boating under the influence awareness as reduce the number of alcohol- and and enforcement campaign. This year’s drug-related accidents and fatalities For more information, visit event takes place June 26-28. on our nation’s waterways through www.operationdrywater.org. F March-April 2015 NASBLA.ORG 3 NASBLA launches Spring Aboard campaign The 2013 U.S. Coast Guard statistics indicate that, when “An informed and knowledgeable boat operator is much the level of operator education was known, approximately more likely to recognize hazardous conditions on the 80 percent of boating deaths occurred on boats where the boat water and avoid a boating mishap,” said NASBLA President operator had never received boating education instruction. To Eleanor Mariani. “The Spring Aboard campaign is a unified help bolster safety on the water, the National Association of effort to remind boaters to complete the course now, State Boating Law Administrators (NASBLA) has launched a prior to or during spring break, in preparation for the campaign to encourage boaters to Spring Aboard and complete a boating season.” boating education course during the week of April 20-26, 2015. The campaign is enlisting a wide variety of organizations Spring Aboard is a national campaign to inform and motivate to provide information and resources that will extend boaters to prepare for the boating season by providing the reach of the Spring Aboard campaign now and in the information on how to find and enroll in a boating course future. Partnership opportunities fall into one of three prior to or during the traditional period for spring break categories: Spring Aboard Course Provider Partners, (April). Designed to serve as an umbrella message for the Spring Aboard Agency and Organization Partners and the recreational boating safety community across the country, the Spring Aboard Safety Community. New partners may sign campaign combines the efforts of boating education course up at any time and we invite groups with an interest in providers, recreational boating safety organizations, and state recreational safety to become a Spring Aboard and local entities involved in recreational boating regulation. partner organization. F 4 NASBLA.ORG March-April 2015 | Small Craft Advisory SAFE Kd^/EdZEd/KE> PROUD E^> MISSION PARTNER ͞tĞůŽŽŬĨŽƌǁĂƌĚƚŽĐŽŶƟŶƵĞǁŽƌŬŝŶŐǁŝƚŚƚŚŝƐŐƌĞĂƚŽƌŐĂŶŝnjĂƟŽŶƚŽ ŵƵƚƵĂůůLJƐƵƉƉŽƌƚĞŶŚĂŶĐĞĚďŽĂƟŶŐƐĂĨĞƚLJĂŶĚŽƉĞƌĂƟŽŶĂůĞīĞĐƟǀĞŶĞƐƐ͟ — ĞŶŶŝƐDŽƌƌŝƐ͕WƌĞƐŝĚĞŶƚΘK͕^&ŽĂƚƐ/ŶƚĞƌŶĂƟŽŶĂů ^&ŽĂƚƐ/ŶƚĞƌŶĂƟŽŶĂů>> WƌŽǀĞŶWĞƌĨŽƌŵĂŶĐĞŝŶƚŚĞdŽƵŐŚĞƐƚŽŶĚŝƟŽŶƐ 8800 SW Barney White Rd Bremerton, WA 98312 360.674.7161 – 360.674.7149 fax www.safeboats.com Duprat, director of operations at Atlanticorp LLC, in the article. “Our main goal behind this standard is to keep the sport safe.” In addition, the U.S. Coast Guard is developing a Marine Safety Information Bulletin on jetpack type watercraft. At press time, various offices within the Coast Guard had reviewed the bulletin and it had been forwarded to the chief of Commercial Vessel Compliance for final review and consideration for release. At the state level, stakeholders with the National Association of State Boating Law Administrators (NASBLA) are also looking at A man demonstrates aerobatics on a these new devices. Last fall, the QL[WYVWLSSLKÅ`PNIVHYK9-WOV[VZ Northern Caucus began working on a charge to identify research and related data on jet pack/hydro state is considering these devices as ‘Jet water sports allow you to get up flying devices for the development Pac Vessels’ and we are in the process and stay there. It’s cool as can be.” of a white paper and possible model of adopting emergency regulations for act for states to ensure safe and their use.” According to an article in the responsible use as recreational and March/April 2015 issue of ASTM rental vessels. However, jet pack/ Standardization News, to keep hydro flying devices are used in all Are they safe? the jetpack industry progressing regions, not just the northern part of the safely, an ASTM subcommittee is country. So it’s likely that the charge will developing a new standard that will be referred to a committee of NASBLA. As with any activity, there are safety provide guidelines for the operation, risks with WJDs.
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