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Publications
by John CollinsBelow are the many publications that our VFC & Marine Safety Officer John Collins has published in local yacht club magazine and other electronic and print publications.
The USCG Auxiliary, the civilian arm of the U.S. Coast Guard is a public service organization dedicated to boating safety and education.
What's New
Published September 2025
Published August 2025
Published July 2025
Published May 2025 Published April 2025
Published February 2025
Published Previously
- Accident Reporting
- Bridge Notices
- Changes to Proposed ATON Reduction
- Coast Guard Sectors
- Flare Disposal
- Penalty for no Boating Safety Certificate
- Perfluorooctane Sulfonic Acid Ban
- Registration of Distress Alert Devices
Published September 2025
- Coast Guard Towing Policy
- Fire Extinguisher Requirement
- Isolated Hazzard Buoy
- Marine Toilet Pump Out Stations
- Private Aids to Navigation
- Recalls
- Regulations
- SOLAS
- Special Anchorages
Published August 2025
- ATON Retirements
- Burial at Sea
- Coast Guard District Renaming
- Inflatable PFDs in Cold Weather
- Rendering Assistance at Sea
Published July 2025
- Documentation Update
- Gasoline Degradation
- LNG Terminal Suspension
- Lost Boating Safety Card
- Prohibited Areas
- Shellfish Area Classification
Published May 2025 Published April 2025
- Captain of the Port
- COLREGS Demarcation Line
- Four Number VHF Channels
- Internet Links of Marine Interest
- LED Lighthouses
- Life Jacket Performance Level
- LNG
- LNG Tanker Security Zone
- New Notice to Mariners Format
- State Boating Laws
Published February 2025
- Boating Safety Certificate Massachusetts
- LED Lighthouses
- LPG Tanker Security Zone
- Marine Traffic
- Boating Safety Certificate
Massachusetts Update - Navigating Around Wind Farms
- Protection of Military Vessels
- Wind Farms
Published Previously
- “Atomic” Waste Buoy
- A Suffix VHF Channels
- AIS Accuracy
- AIS Blocking by VHF
- AIS Messages
- America's Waterway Watch
- Auto Pilots
- Automatic Identification System
- Boating Safety APP
- Boating Safety Circular
- Boating Under the Influence
- Bow Riding
- Bridge Lighting and Markings
- Broadcast Notices to Mariners
- Buoys Not Shown
- Buoys That Make Sounds
- Carbon Monoxide
- Carbon Monoxide With Box on Stern
- Cell Phone Limits
- Coast Guard Jurisdiction on Rivers and Lakes
- Coast Pilot
- Cold Water Shock
- CPR
- Customs License
- Day Beacon Bowditch Ledge and others
- Day Mark Endeavor Rock
- Day Mark Tom Moore Rock
- Day Marks Repaired
- Day Marks Salem Bay Destroyed
- Do Not Tie Up to Navigation Aids
- Dredging Areas
- eFoils
- Electronic Flares
- EPIRB Battery Replacing
- EPIRB Registration
- Estimating Impairment
- Ethanol in Older Engines
- Engine Cut-Off Switch
- False Distress Calls
- Fire Extinguisher Expiration
- Fish Havens
- Fog Horns
- Future Wind Turbines
- Global Marine Distress and Safety System (GMDSS)
- Global Navigation Satellite Systems – Trust, But Verify
- GPS Reliability
- GPS Time Update
- Hull Identification Numbers
- If Found Sticker
- Hypothermia
- Invasive Species Transfer
- Jones Act
- Land Use of Marine VHF Radios
- LED Interference with VHF and AIS
- Light List Update
- Link Changes
- Lithium Battery Disposal
- LNG
- Local Charts No Longer Updated
- LPG (Liquified Propane Gas)
- MMSI Numbers
- Marine Protected Area
- Natural Gas Pipeline
- New Life Jacket Label
- No Discharge Zones
- No More Numbered NOAA Charts
- No More Paper NOAA Charts
- Non-Distress Assistance
- Non-Rechargeable Fire Extinguishers
- Offshore Wind Farms
- Outside VHF Range
- Paddle Sports
- Parasail Harness
- Personal Locator Beacon (PLB)
- PFD Light Failure
- Port Security
- Potentially Dangerous Smoke Signal
- Prop Walk
- Propane Tank Recertification
- RACONs
- Recall Tracking
- Rescue 21
- Right Whales
- Safety Inspections
- Sailing Vessel Lights
- Sewage Disposal
- Shared Waterways
- Small Boat Detectability
- Solar Panels on Boats
- Star Spangled Buoy
- Surf Stations
- Third Party Documentation
- Traffic Separation Zones
- Trans-Atlantic Cable
- TV Antenna Interference With GPS
- Uncharted Wreck
- Unexploded Ordinance
- VHF Radio Checks
- White and Orange Buoys
- Yellow Buoys