MOTOR BOATING
- Show that you know first aid for injuries or illnesses that could occur
while motor boating, including hypothermia, heatstroke, heat exhaustion,
dehydration, sunburn, insect stings, tick bites, blisters, and
hyperventilation.
- Do the following:
- Identify the conditions that must exist before performing CPR on a
person. Explain how such conditions are recognized.
- Demonstrate proper technique for performing CPR using a training
device approved by your counselor.
- Before doing the following requirements, successfully complete the BSA
swimmer test. Jump feet first into water over your head in depth, swim 75
yards or 75 meters in a strong manner using one or more of the following
strokes: sidestroke, breaststroke, trudgen, or crawl; then swim 25 yards or
25 meters using an easy, resting backstroke. The 100 yards or 100 meters
must be swum continuously and include at least one sharp turn. After
completing the swim, rest by floating as motionless as possible.
- Show you know safety laws for motor boating:
- Have a permit to run a motorboat, if needed.
- Explain laws affecting pleasure boating in your state.
- Discuss with your counselor how the hazards of weather and heavy
water conditions can affect both safety and performance in motor boating.
- Promise that you will live up to the Scout Boating code. Explain
the meaning of each point.
- Discuss with your counselor the nautical rules of the road and
describe the national and your state's aids to navigation.
- Explain and show the correct use of equipment required by both
state and federal regulations to be carried aboard a motorboat.
- Explain the requirement on federal and state ventilation rules and
state why this is needed.
- Show you know how to run a motorboat by doing the following the right
way:
- Get in a boat.
- Fuel and check motor before starting.
- Start motor and get under way from a dock or beach.
- Run a straight course for a quarter mile. Make right-angle turns to
left or right. Make a U-turn.
- Stop boat. Drop anchor. Raise it. Get under way.
- Come alongside a dock. Tie up or beach.
- Show how to:
- Tie up or take boat from water.
- Store gear.
- Prepare motor for the winter.
BSA Advancement ID#: 76
Source: Boy Scout Requirements, #33215E, revised 2002
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