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Boating Class

To drive any vehicle, California requires that a person displays knowledge of pertinent rules and laws and exhibits operational skills. However, marine craft currently carry no such requirement, although it is the individual responsibility of any boat operator/owner to know and conform to all legal registration and operational mandates. For your own safety and that of your passengers - and the protection of your investment - it is important that each operator possesses knowledge of basic boating skills and rules of the waterway.  This can be as simple as contacting your local Coast Guard Auxiliary Flotilla.

Note: California is one of the States that currently does not require a license or a boating class to operate a boat in California. That requirement is currently being studied and it may become a requirement to have taken and pass an Auxiliary sponsored Boating Safety class. Boaters should consider taking a class before the law takes effect and the classes fill up.

Regular classes are offered to the public at a very nominal fee.  For the Santa Clarita area, Flotilla 43 offers the following classes;

  •   ABC - Basic Boating Skills      
  •   Basic Skills and Seamanship    Boat14
  •   Basic Navigation
  •  Advanced Navigation
  •  GPS (satellite navigation)
  •  Sailing Fundamentals
  •   PWC Operations
  •   Boating Fun for Children - "COASTIE"

Contact Us

Flotilla 43 Staff Officer, Public Education: Carroll Sears
     Tel: 661-259-7201       EMail:  carrol16@juno.com