Boating Safety Information
If you properly prepared for safe boating with good current information and have the proper equipment that you may need aboard, then you will have a enjoyable and safe trip. Here is some helpful information for boaters.
First consider a Safety Briefing for your crew and passengers:
Key things to know:
2. How to make a basic radio call (Name of your boat for the Coast Guard). Push to talk, release to listen
3.Where to find Latitude/Longitude on the boat (GPS, Chartplotter, radio and how to transmit it
4.Start/stop engine procedure
5 Kill switch operation
6. Anchor procedures
General Information:
Before You Go Boating - Checklist
NC Wildlife Resources: Boat Registration, Boating Information and Publications
Hurricane Preparedness Information
North Carolina Boater's Check List
Local, State and Federal Information:
NOAA Online View Chart 11541 - View local chart online
NOAA Booklet Charts - Print at home for free. BookletCharts are made to help recreational boaters locate themselves on the water. The BookletChart is reduced in scale and divided into pages for convenience, but otherwise contains all the information of the full-scale nautical chart.
NOAA U.S. Coast Pilot - Detailed information on local waters
Army Corps of Engineers Bogue Inlet survey charts - Here you'll find the latest hydrographic survey charts of Bogue Inlet and other inlets and crossings in the area.
Local Buoy BFTN7 Weather Information
Current National Weather Service Marine Weather
NOAA Bogue Inlet Tide Information
N.C. Department of Marine Fisheries
Find a State Boating Access Site
Detailed Boating Information:
Find Any Location by Putting in Lat/Long
Coast Guard Light List - for every Aid to Navigation in the U.S. Updated January of each year. Note: Top left box provides link for Weekly updates and corrections.
The Local Notice for Mariners - This document provides dredging activities, regattas, missing or damaged Aids to Navigations - both public and private.
Reporting a Boating Accident - For NC Accident Report for accidents within three miles of the NC Coast, call the NC Wildlife Dispatch Center, 800-662-7137.
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