Having just picked up a second-hand inflatable and an electric trolling motor I spent the past two weekends boating and fishing (trolling) with the wife and I had no idea that this license applied to my "vessel" as well.
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will get my card immediately but it seems to be another example of bureaucracy at its finest. I've never owned a boat in my life, but I apply "common sense" to my "boating". I carry and wear life jackets, keep the oars on board, and have a "bailer" and signaling device. Yet I can still get a $250 fine for operating my dingy that can't go faster than a person can walk, ....Yet some 19 year old party'er can operate a $60,000, 350 HP inboard speed boat with nothing more than answering a few questions and tick them off on a piece of paper just because he is a renter????? What a joke.